Alejandro Carrión
Ecuadorian poet, writer and journalist (1915–1992)
Alejandro Carrión Aguirre (11 March 1915 – 4 January 1992) was an Ecuadorian poet, novelist and journalist. He wrote the novel La espina (1959), the short story book La manzana dañada (1983), and numerous poetry books. As a journalist he published many of his articles under the pseudonym "Juan Sin Cielo." In 1956 he founded, along with Pedro Jorge Vera, the political magazine La Calle. He directed the literary magazine Letras del Ecuador. He received the Maria Moors Cabot prize (1961) from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism as well as the Ecuadorian National Prize Premio Eugenio Espejo (1981) for his body of work. He was the nephew of Benjamín Carrión and Clodoveo Carrión.
Biography
The journalist
Alejandro Carrión wrote articles and political commentary in the following periodicals and newspapers:
Newspapers
El Tiempo, Bogotá, 1947
La Tierra, Quito 1942–1948
El Sol, Quito, 1950;
La Razón, Guayaquil, 1968–1969
El Universo, Guayaquil, 1948–1968
Diario Las Américas, Miami, 1970–1979
Diario El Comercio, Quito 1980–1992
Magazines
Revista de la Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1945–1950
Letras del Ecuador, 1945–1950
Sábado, Bogotá, 1947
La Calle, Quito 1959–1969
Vistazo, Guayaquil 1969–1992;
Américas, Washington, D.C., 1977–1979
Revista de la Sociedad Jurídico-Literaria, 1981–1982
Bibliography
Poetry
A selection of Alejandro Carrión's poetry was recorded in Quito for the Library of Congress in Washington; a copy of that recording is housed at Harvard University's "House of the Poetry". Alejandro told of his emotional reaction to hearing his own words when visiting in the company of the poet Archibald McLeish: "small satisfactions that illuminate the life of a poet."
Poemas de un portero - Poems of a Doorman (1932–1934)
Luz del nuevo paisaje - Light of the New Landscape (1934–1935)
Poesía de la soledad y el deseo - Poetry of Solitude and Desire (1934–1939)
Agonía del árbol y la sangre - Agony of the Tree and the Blood (1934–1944)
La noche oscura - Dark Night (1934–1954)
La sangre sobre la tierra - The Blood on the Earth (1946–1957)
Nunca! Nunca - Never!
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