Alejandro Carrión

Who was Alejandro Carrión?

Alejandro Carrión Aguirre was a poet, novelist and journalist. He wrote the novel La espina, the short story book La manzana dañada, 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 from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism as well as the Ecuadorian National Prize Premio Eugenio Espejo for his body of work. He was the nephew of Benjamín Carrión.