Demetrio Aguilera Malta
Demetrio Aguilera Malta , actually Raúl Demetrio Aguilera Malta , (born May 24, 1909 in Guayaquil , Guayas Province , † December 28, 1981 in Mexico City ) was a writer, painter and diplomat from Ecuador .
Life
Aguilera Malta came from a very wealthy family; he was a son of the businessman Demetrio Aguilera Sánchez and his wife Teresa Malta y Franco. A maternal ancestor was the writer Juan José de Malta y Salcedo.
Aguilera Malta received his first lessons from his mother, later various private tutors were added. He began his first literary attempts as a teenager and oriented himself, among other things, on Joaquín Gallegos Lara . He began to study law at the university in his hometown, but dropped out in 1931 without a degree.
Shortly before the start of the civil war in Spain , Aguilera Malta arrived in Madrid to attend the Universidad Central u. a. To study literary history. During the chaos of the war he acted as a correspondent for newspapers and magazines such as “La Prensa” , “El Telégrafo” , “El Grafico” and the like. a.
Under the presidency of Carlos Julio Arosemena Tola Aguilera Malta acted as charge d'affaires of the embassy of his country in Chile . In 1949 he represented his country in Brazil in the office of cultural attaché and with effect from August 1, 1979 he was ambassador to Mexico .
Due to illness ( diabetes ) he went blind and died at the age of 72 on December 28, 1981 of a stroke .
Honors
- 1981 Premio Nacional “ Eugenio Espejo ” for his complete works
Works (selection)
- Film documentaries
- Los Colorados .
- Las iglesias de Quito .
- Los Salasacas .
- El transports de banano .
- Novels
- Don Goyo . Madrid 1933.
- La isla virgen . Guayaquil 1942.
- Un nuevo mar para el rey . Madrid 1965.
- Requimen para el diablo . Madrid 1978.
- Plays
- Infierno negro . Mexico 1967.
- Una mujer para cada acto . 1970.
- El sátiro encadenado . 1939.
- El tigre . 1955.
literature
- Giuseppe Bellini (ed.): Realismo mágico y denuncia de romanzo de Demetrio Aguilera Malta . La Goliardica, Milan 1969.
- Antonio Fama: Realismo magico en la narrativa de Aguilera Malta . Playor, Madrid 1977, ISBN 84-359-0035-5 .
- Leon F. Lyday, Gerardo Luzuriaga: Del Realismo al Expresismo "el Teatro de Aguilera Malta" . In: Modern Language Journal , Vol. 57 (1973), no. 5/6, p. 303 ff.
- María E. Valverde: La narrativa de Aguilera Malta. Un aporte a lo real-moravilloso . Dissertation, University New Brunswick 1977.
Web links
- Demetrio Aguilera Malta in the Diccionario Biográfico del Ecuador
- Demetrio Aguilera Malta on the Literatura ecuatoriana website(Spanish)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Aguilera Malta, Demetrio |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Aguilera Malta, Raúl Demetrio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ecuadorian writer, painter and diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 24, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Guayaquil , Guayas Province |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 28, 1981 |
| Place of death | Mexico city |