Jorgenrique Adoum

Jorgenrique Adoum: (1926–2109), is widely recognized as the most important Ecuadorian intellectual of the twentieth century, was an award–winning poet, novelist, essayist, and playwright. He belonged to a pioneering and yet often overlooked group of Spanish American poets known as “conversacionalistas,” who emphasize the orality of language, made use of the languages of the social sciences and mass media, and innovated by challenging poetic limits and by requiring an active reader. He spent much of the sixties, seventies, and eighties in exile, mainly in Paris, returning to Ecuador in 1987, where he continued to write.