Fernando Chaves

Fernando Chaves Reyes (February 13, 1902 – 1999) was a novelist, essayist, and journalist. He was the first Ecuadorian writer to depict an indigenous theme in his writings.

Chaves was Ecuador's ambassador to El Salvador, Ecuador and Nicaragua.[1]

Chaves' novel Plata y bronce (Silver and Bronze) (1927) was the first indigenist novel in Ecuador. Chaves was influenced by the Bolivian novelist Alcides Arguedas, who in 1919 wrote the indigenist novel Raza de bronze (Race of Bronze). Chávez' novel influenced other future Chaves was born in Otavalo. He was married to Magdalena Marie Ribreau, who died of a stroke in 1982.[2]

In 1991 he received the National Grand Cross of the Order of Merit.

Chaves died in 1999 in Quito.

Works

Novels

  • La embrujada (1923)
  • Plata y bronce (1927)
  • Escombros (Quito, 1958)

Non fiction

  • Crónica de mi viaje a México (Quito, 1992)
  • El hombre ecuatoriano y su cultura (Quito, 1990)

References

  1. ^ "Ecuatorianos en Japon: KANSAI Fernando Chaves Reyes". Archived from the original on 2016-08-09. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
  2. ^ Rodolfo Pérez Pimentel. Biographical Dictionary of Ecuador https://web.archive.org/web/20131113134315/http://www.diccionariobiograficoecuador.com/tomos/tomo5/c4.htm. Archived from the original on 13 November 2013. Retrieved 16 December 2013. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

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