About Elysa Ayala
Lived 1878 – 1956 (aged 77–78). Elysa Ayala was an Ecuadorian writer, painter and novelist.
Elysa Ayala González (February 1879, Guayaquil – 1956) was an Ecuadorian short story writer and painter, known for being the first Ecuadorian to write short stories which transcended the Costumbrismo genre.
Biography Ayala was born in February 1879 in Guayaquil to Arcadio Ayala, a physician and chemist.
In 1894, aged 15, Ayala published her first short story "La Maldición" in America magazine. Ayala's short stories were later published in Ecuador in El Telégrafo, El Guante, Patria, Nuevos Horizontes and from 1917 onwards in La Ilustración.
Ayala died in 1956.
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Ecuadorian writer and painter (1879–1956)
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Elysa Ayala was born in 1878 in Guayaquil.
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Elysa Ayala died in 1956.
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Elysa Ayala was a writer, painter and novelist.
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Elysa Ayala was Ecuadorian.
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