![]() Jorge Icaza was later appointed Ecuador's ambassador to Russia. Fragments of the book first appeared in English translation in Russia, where it was welcomed enthusiastically by Russia's peasant socialist class. The book became a well-known "Indigenist" novel, a movement in Latin American literature that aspired to realism in its depiction of the mistreatment of the indigenous. ![]() With the publication of Huasipungo in 1934, Icaza achieved international fame. After his 1933 playscript, El Dictador, was censured, Icaza turned his attention to writing novels about the social conditions in Ecuador, particularly the oppression suffered by its indigenous people. ![]() His plays include El Intruso in 1928, La Comedia sin Nombre in 1929, Cuál es in 1931, Sin Sentido in 1932, and Flagelo, which was published in 1936. Jorge Icaza's literary career began as a playwright. ![]() He was born in Quito in 1906 and died of cancer in the same city in 1978. ![]() Jorge Icaza Coronel (J– May 26, 1978), commonly referred to as Jorge Icaza, was a writer from Ecuador, best known for his novel Huasipungo, which brought attention to the exploitation of Ecuador's indigenous people by Ecuadorian whites. Huasipungo (1934), El chulla Romero y Flores (1958) ![]()
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