Aguilera Malta, Demetrio

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Aguilera Malta, Demetrio

Born May 24, 1909, in Guayaquil. Ecuadorian writer; pioneer in the literature of social protest.

Aguilera Malta’s first stories (in the collective anthology They Who Leave, 1930) and the novels Don Goyo (1933) and Virgin Island (1942) were devoted to the life of the oppressed Ecuadorian half-breed, the so-called cholo. In his novel Canal Zone (1935) he portrays the domination of Panama by American imperialists.

WORKS

In Russian translation:
In Ekvadorskie rasskazy. Moscow, 1962.

REFERENCE

Mamontov, S. P. “Literatura Ekvadora.” In the collection Ekvador. Moscow, 1963.