Fernando Tinajero Vallamar | |
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Born | Quito, Ecuador | January 5, 1940
Occupation | Writer |
Nationality | Ecuador |
Citizenship | Ecuador |
Literary movement | Tsantzismo |
Notable awards | Premio Eugenio Espejo (2015) |
Fernando Tinajero Villamar (born 1940, Quito) is an Ecuadorian novelist, essayist, and university professor.[1] In the 1960s, he was one of the most active members of Tzantzismo a cultural vanguard movement which had roots in the Cuban revolution. He was the 2015 recipient of the Eugenio Espejo Prize in literature awarded by the Ecuadorian president.[2]