Nelson Estupiñán Bass

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Nelson Estupiñán Bass (1912–2002) was an Ecuadorian writer. He was born in Súa, a city in the predominantly

In 1943, Bass completed the novel, When the Guayacanes Were in Bloom (Cuando Los Guayacanes Florecían), one of his most famous and widely read literary projects throughout Ecuador and Latin America. It was published in 1950 by the Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana. The novel expresses the fraught situation of Afro-Ecuadorians used as pawns to fight for the Conservative Party and Liberal Party during the Liberal Revolution in Ecuador of 1895^[2] Bass was influenced by global Pan-Africanism and invoked an identifiably black aesthetic and political project in his writings and lectures during the 1940s and 50s.^[3]

In 1962, Bass married Luz Argentina Chiriboga, who later became known for writing on Afro-Ecuadorian and feminist themes.^[4] In 1966 Bass was the first president of a regional museum of the national Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana in Esmeraldas called Archaeological Museum "Carlos Mercado Ortiz".^[5]

Bass was nominated for the

Works

Novels

• Cuando los guayacanes florecían (Quito, 1954)
• El paraíso (Quito, 1958)
• El último río (Quito, 1966)
• Senderos brillantes (Quito, 1974)
• Las puertas del verano (Quito, 1978)
• Toque de queda (Guayaquil, 1978)
• Bajo el cielo nublado (Quito, 1981)
• Los canarios pintaron el aire amarillo (Quito, 1993)
• Al norte de Dios (Quito, 1994).

Poetry

• Canto negro por la luz (Quito, 1956)
• Timarán y cuabú (Quito, 1956)
• Las huellas digitales (Quito, 1971)
• Las tres carabelas (Portoviejo, 1973)
• negra bullanguera (1980).

Essays and criticism

• Luces que titilan: guía de la vieja Esmeraldas (Esmeraldas, 1977)
• Viaje alrededor de la poesía negra (Quito, 1982)
• Desde un balcón volado (Quito, 1992)
• El Crepúsculo (1983)

References

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