Adalberto Ortiz

Adalberto Ortiz

Adalberto Ortiz (1914-2003) was a novelist, poet and diplomat born in Esmeraldas, a province of Ecuador.

Among his most important literary works we find his novel "Juyungo", his poetry collection "Earth, Sound and Drum", and the short story collection called "Entundada"; His most defining feature as a writer was the incorporation of the elements of afro-American culture, enriching his literary vocabulary with its jargon, its elasticity and its rhythm.

Ortiz's thematic focused around the identity of the afro-American within Latin-American society and its struggle towards social freedom, against oppression and secular exploitation. His body of work also preserves and rescues the elements of the psychology, idiosyncrasy, customs and slang of the afro-American culture.

Facing the subject of the difference between classes, Ortiz used his characters to personalize and flesh out these political themes into very human and realistic stories. A specific point he touches in the novel "Juyungo", for example, is the relationship of the Black and Mestizo races (personified by Lastre's descendant and the Mestizo Diaz).

Outside of the aspects of social commentary, Ortiz's prose is celebrated and acclaimed as possessing singular beauty and elegance.

In 1995 the Ecuadorian Government awarded him with the "Eugenio Espejo" National Prize celebrating the entirety of his work.

Published works

Novels and short stories

*Juyungo (Buenos Aires, 1943)
*El espejo y la ventana -National Award of the Journalist Union (Quito, 1967)
*La envoltura del sueño (Guayaquil, 1982)
*Los contrabandistas (México, 1945)
*La mala espalda (Quito, 1952)
*La entundada (Quito, 1971)

Poetry

*Tierra son y tambor (México, 1945)
*Camino y puerto de la angustia (México, 1945)
*El vigilante insepulto (Quito, 1954)
*El animal herido -antología- (Quito, 1959)
*Fórmulas. Tierra Son y Tambor (Quito, 1973)
*La niebla encendida (Quito, 1983)

Anthologies

*Consta en las antologías: El nuevo relato ecuatoriano (Quito, 1951)
*Antología del cuento hispanoamericano contemporáneo (Quito, 1958)
*Antología del relato ecuatoriano (Quito, 1973)
*Cuento de la generación de los 30 (Guayaquil)
*Antología del cuento ecuatoriano (Lima, 1974)
*Cuentos hispanoamericanos, Ecuador (Quito, 1992)
*Cuento contigo (Quito, 1993)
*Antología básica del cuento ecuatoriano (Quito, 2001).
*es en el estudianted de es en el la estupio (larga, 200)

External links

* [http://www.wickedness.net/Monsters/M2/s2.htm Monsters and the Monstruous, the second session analyses "La Tunda" by Ortiz]
* [http://www.edufuturo.com/educacion.php?c=2241 "Los Ojos Y La Fea", a PDF ebook of one of Ortiz's short stories]
* [http://www.edufuturo.com/educacion.php?c=3122 Exhaustive Spanish biography]
* [http://www.diccionariobiograficoecuador.com/tomos/tomo1/o2.htm Complete Spanish biography by Rodolfo Pérez Pimentel]

References

*Smith, Ronna (1949-). "Prosa de Ortiz: bibliografía." Cultura 6:16 (mayo/ago. 1983): 197-210.


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