José de la Cuadra

José de la Cuadra was born in Guayaquil on 3 September 1903. A doctor of law, he taught at the Vicente Rocafuerte school and then at the University of Guayaquil, was secretary of the governorship of Guayas, and later represented his country as a diplomat in Argentina. A member of the Guayaquil group, he was above all a short-story writer, one of the greatest in the country, and in 1937 devoted an essay to the figure of the montuvio, the peasant of the coast. He died in Guayaquil on 27 February 1941, aged thirty-seven.

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• NovelLos SangurimasJosé de la Cuadra · 1934not translated into EnglishLiterature