Carmen Febres-Cordero de Ballén

Carmen Febres-Cordero de Ballén (1829–1893) was an Ecuadorian writer and poet.

Biography Carmen Febres-Cordero was born in Guayaquil in 1829. She was the daughter of lieutenant colonel Joaquín Francisco Febres Cordero and of Maria de Jesus Montoya. She had four brothers.

In 1853, she married Aurelio Ballén de Guzmán. They had three children.

There are few known poems by this author, but they are all said to be of merit. According to Manuel Gallegos, they were written in her adolescence. In her poems, Febres-Cordero expresses tenderness and passion, but she also succumbs to the weight of disappointments. She collaborated with various newspapers such as La Esperanza, along with other authors such as Dolores Sucre and Rita Lecumberri, in the liberal El espejo, created in 1871, and in the magazine El Álbum in 1880.

Febres-Cordero settled in Chile at least since 1879, and died in Valparaíso in 1893.

A street in the city of Quito is named in her honor.