Icaza, Jorge
Related Category: Latin American Literature: Biographies
(hôr´hā ēkä´sä), 1906–78, Ecuadorian novelist. Icaza wrote in harsh, realistic terms against the exploitation of the Native American. His novel
En las calles [in the streets] won him acclaim in 1935. Among his other works are the novels
Huasipungo (1934),
Cholos (1938), and
El chulla Romero y Flores (1958) and the short stories collected in
Relatos (1969).
