Alejandro Carrión

Alejandro Carrión Aguirre (11 March 1915 – 4 January 1992) was an Ecuadorian poet, novelist and journalist. He wrote the novel La espina, the short story book La manzana dañada (1983), and numerous poetry books. As a journalist he published many of his articles under the pseudonym "Juan Sin Cielo." In 1956 he founded, along with Pedro Jorge Vera, the political magazine La Calle. He directed the literary magazine Letras del Ecuador. He received the Maria Moors Cabot prize (1961) from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism as well as the Ecuadorian National Prize Premio Eugenio Espejo (1981) for his body of work. He was the nephew of Benjamín Carrión and Clodoveo Carrión.

Biography

The journalist Alejandro Carrión wrote articles and political commentary in the following periodicals and newspapers:

Newspapers El Tiempo, Bogotá, 1947 La Tierra, Quito 1942–1948 El Sol, Quito, 1950; La Razón, Guayaquil, 1968–1969 El Universo, Guayaquil, 1948–1968 Diario Las Américas, Miami, 1970–1979 Diario El Comercio, Quito 1980–1992

Magazines Revista de la Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1945–1950 Letras del Ecuador, 1945–1950 Sábado, Bogotá, 1947 La Calle, Quito 1959–1969 Vistazo, Guayaquil 1969–1992; Américas, Washington, D.C., 1977–1979 Revista de la Sociedad Jurídico-Literaria, 1981–1982