Aminta Buenaño

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Aminta Buenaño Rugel (born Santa Lucía Canton, Guayas Province, 1958) is an Ecuadorian writer and politician.

Biography

She has worked for the publication El Universo, in Guayaquil.

In 2007, she joined Ecuadorian Constituent Assembly, as a member of PAIS Alliance. She was congressional vice-president.[1][2] She has also helped write the 2008 Constitution of Ecuador.[3]

In 2011, she was appointed in 2011 as Ecuador's ambassador to Spain.

On April 3, 2014, she was appointed ambassador to Nicaragua,[4] with extra accreditation as non-resident to Barbados. She was dismissed on February 22, 2017[5]

Prizes

  • International Short Story Award Jauja de Valladolid (1979).
  • National Short Story Award Diario El Tiempo.

Works

  • La mansión de los sueños (Guayaquil, 1985)
  • La otra piel (Guayaquil, 1992)
  • Mujeres divinas (2006)

Anthologies

  • Mujeres ecuatorianas en el relato (1988)
  • Primera Bienal del Cuento Ecuatoriano "Pablo Palacio" (Quito, 1991)
  • Veintiún cuentistas ecuatorianos (Quito, 1996)
  • Antología de narradoras ecuatorianas (Quito, 1997)
  • 40 cuentos ecuatorianos (Quito, 1997)
  • Antología básica del cuento ecuatoriano (Quito, 1998)

References

  1. 1."Ecuador Mining News by Silvia Santacruz". Archived from the original on 10 July 2011. Retrieved 10 January 2011.
  2. 2."The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund : Ecuador". Archived from the original on 22 December 2010.
  3. 3."Ecuador: nueva Constitución va por buen camino". NY Daily News. 2 July 2008.
  4. 4."Aminta Buenaño is the new ambassador of Ecuador in Nicaragua". El Telégrafo. 4 April 2014. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
  5. 5."Cesan a Aminta Buenaño como embajadora en Nicaragua" (in Spanish).