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Jorge Enrique Adoum

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Ecuadorian writer (1926-2009)

WritersLived 1926 to 2009 · aged 83
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Jorge Enrique Adoum was an Ecuadorian writer, poet, politician, and diplomat. He was one of the major exponents of Latin American poetry. His work received such prestigious awards as the first Casa de las Américas Prize in Cuba, the most important honor in Latin American letters.

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1989Premio Eugenio Espejo
1976Xavier Villaurrutia Award
1960Casa de las Américas Prize
Guggenheim Fellowship

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Jorge Enrique Adoum was an Ecuadorian writer, poet, politician, and diplomat. He was one of the major exponents of Latin American poetry. His work received such prestigious awards as the first Casa de las Américas Prize in Cuba, the most important honor in Latin American letters. Though hailed by Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda as the best poet of his generation in Latin America, Adoum's work is unknown in the English-speaking world.

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Lived 1926 to 2009 · aged 83
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