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César Dávila Andrade

Ecuadorian writer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ4888019 ↗
Source-derived summary

César Dávila Andrade (October 5, 1918, in Cuenca, Ecuador – May 2, 1967) was an Ecuadorian poet and writer.

His works displayed elements of neo-romanticism and surrealism.

He spent much of his life in Caracas, Venezuela.

Works

Poems

Oda al Arquitecto (1946).

Espacio me has vencido (1947).

Catedral salvaje (1951).

Boletín y elegía de las mitas (1956).

Arco de instantes (1959).

En un lugar no identificado (1963).

Conexiones de tierra (1964).

Editorial summary

“César Dávila Andrade” enters the record as ecuadorian writer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what César, Dávila and Andrade can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1918, 1967, 1946, 1947—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1918-10-05. Its strongest next move is a source search built around César, Dávila and Andrade.
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“César Dávila Andrade” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, César, Dávila and Andrade provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4888019. VIAF identifies the subject as 66487994. The Library of Congress control number is n81053672. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1918, 1967, 1946 and 1947.

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This entry incorporates text from “César Dávila Andrade” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.