Alicia Ortega Caicedo

Alicia Ortega Caicedo (Guayaquil, born November 10, 1964) is an Ecuadorian professor, literary critic and editor. She has been described as one of the most important voices of national literary criticism.

Biography She completed her higher education at Lomonosov University, where she obtained the title of philologist. She later obtained a master's degree in letters at the Simón Bolívar Andean University and a doctorate in Hispanic literature and languages at the University of Pittsburgh. Among the authors studied in the book are Jorge Icaza, Pablo Palacio, Joaquín Gallegos Lara, Jorge Enrique Adoum and Alicia Yánez Cossío.

The work won the Isabel Tobar Guarderas Award, awarded by the municipality of Quito, for the best social science work of the year. It was also highly praised by Fernando Tinajero and Raúl Vallejo,

In 2022 she published the book Estancias, a hybrid work in which she mixed elements of a novel, a literary essay and a memoir. The book was inspired by the difficulties suffered by Ortega during the COVID-19 pandemic and addresses issues such as loneliness, isolation, mourning and the separation that at that time she had with her romantic partner, writer María Auxiliadora Balladares.

Works

2017: Fuga hacia dentro. La novela ecuatoriana en el siglo XX 2022: Estancias 2025: La materia del duelo