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Eliécer Cárdenas
Eliécer Cárdenas Espinosa (Cañar Province, Ecuador, Cañar, 10 December 1950 – 26 September 2021) was an Ecuadorian novelist. Life and career In his youth he went from school to school because he questioned the repressive systems and was suspended various times. For example, he attended meetings of the Young Socialists, with whom he fought against the Ministry of Education for free college enrollments, and he was arrested in 1970 during the dictatorship of José MarÃa Velasco Ibarra, Velasco Ibarra. In 1976 he graduated from the School of Jurisprudence of the Central University of Ecuador with a degree in Social Sciences. In Cuenca, Ecuador, Cuenca he married Carmen Patiño Ullauri. From 1977 to 1978 he wrote the novel ''Polvo y ceniza'' (Dust and Ashes), which he entered into a novel contest held by the House of Ecuadorian Culture for writers under 40, and he won first prize. The book, published in 1979, is the most sold novel in Ecuador. The novel put Cárdenas in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cárdenas (surname)
Cárdenas is a Toponymic surname, locational surname originating in La Rioja (Spain), La Rioja, Spain. In Spain, Cárdenas is the 287th most frequently surname, accounting for 0.37% of the population. It is the 296th most popular surname in the Spanish autonomous community of Catalonia. Etymology This habitational surname derives from places named Cárdenas in the provinces of AlmerÃa, in Andalusia, and Logroño, in La Rioja. It comes from the feminine plural of , meaning "blue" or "bluish purple", by way of the Latin , from ("thistle").Dictionary of American Surnames, ed. Patrick Hanks, Oxford University Press, 2003, p. 287 People *Adán Cárdenas (1836–1916), President of Nicaragua *Adrian Cardenas (born 1987), American baseball player *AgustÃn Cárdenas (1927–2001), Cuban sculptor *Alberto Cárdenas (born 1958), Mexican politician *Alejandro Cárdenas (born 1974), Mexican athlete *Alicia Cárdeñas (born 1943), Mexican volleyball player *Alonso de Cárdenas (fl. 1474â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |