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Jorge Eduardo Velasco Mackenzie (16 January 1949 – 24 September 2021[1]) was an Ecuadorian writer and professor. His most popular novel is El rincón de los justos (1983) about Guayaquil's lumpen proletariat.[2]

Velasco Mackenzie in 2018
Velasco Mackenzie in 2018

Literary career


In 1975 Velasco Mackenzie published his first book, the collection of stories De vuelta al paraíso. In 1983 he published his first novel El rincón de los justos.

During the 1980s he gave several cultural promotional workshops sponsored by the Central Bank of Ecuador with Miguel Donoso Pareja, whom he had met after participating in a literary workshop in which Velasco developed the text of his novel about the Afro-Ecuadorian people. Tambores para una canción perdida (1986), with which he won the "Grupo de Guayaquil" Award, organized by the House of Ecuadorian Culture and whose jury was made up of Alfredo Pareja Díez Canseco, Antonio Cornejo Polar and Eliécer Cárdenas. Velasco and Donoso remained friends until Donoso's death.[3]

In 1996 he won first place in the IV Biennial of the Ecuadorian Novel with the historical novel En nombre de un amor imaginario, in which he fictionalizes the events surrounding the French Geodesic Mission of 1736.[4]

His novel La casa del fabulante (2014), recounts his experience in a detoxification center, which he attended due to his problems with alcoholism.[5]


Bibliography



Novels



Short stories



Poetry



Theater



References


  1. El escritor Jorge Velasco Mackenzie falleció en Guayaquil (in Spanish)
  2. William., Foster, David (9 January 2015). Handbook of Latin American literature. ISBN 978-1138855250. OCLC 911018886.
  3. Telégrafo, El (19 March 2015). "Jorge Velasco Mackenzie, el maestro que supo ser tallerista". El Telégrafo (in European Spanish). Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 24 December 2018.
  4. "En nombre de un amor imaginario y los orígenes de la República del Ecuador" (PDF). repositorio.uasb.edu.ec. Retrieved 24 December 2018.
  5. "Jorge Velasco presenta una novela testimonial". El Universo (in Spanish). 30 September 2014. Retrieved 24 December 2018.

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Jorge Eduardo Velasco Mackenzie (Guayaquil, 16 de enero de 1949 - Ibidem, 24 de septiembre de 2021)[1][2] fue un escritor y catedrático ecuatoriano. La ciudad de Guayaquil ocupó un puesto central en las letras de Velasco, particularmente su mundo marginal, que fue retratado por el autor en varias de sus obras.[3] Entre sus libros más reconocidos destaca la novela El rincón de los justos (1983),[4] en la que retrató a la clase baja de la ciudad a través de las historias de peloteros, borrachos, cachineros, obreros, trabajadoras sexuales y demás personas desposeídas.[3]



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