Alicia Yanez Cossio born in 1929 is one of Ecuador's best known writers. Cossio is one of Ecuador's first contemporary writers. Alicia Yánez Cossío elucidates the complexity of Andean society by placing voteless players such as women and Native Americans onstage with traditional powers such as the military and the church. Folk wisdom, represented in The Potbellied Virgin by the beautifully translated proverbs so popular with the Benavideses and the Pandos alike, stands up to historical record. Such inclusiveness allows the whole truths of Cossío the Ecuadorian writer's subjects to come out. Alicia's Potbellied Virgin is a funny, focused representation of Ecuadorian life in the twentieth century.
BEYOND THE ISLANDS BY ALICIA YANEZ COSSIO
Beyond the Islands, by Cossío the Ecuadorian Writer is a semi-mythical story set in the Galapagos Islands. She plans to spend at least another year on the project before publication. Alicia Yanez Cossio won the First Prize for a literary competition patronized by Guayaquil's leading newspaper, El Universo (1972).
Bruna and her sisters in the sleeping city is the first novel that was written by this woman writer Alicia Yanez Cossio. This novel is all about the history of Bruna and her wealthy family.
The Ecuadorian Author Alicia Yánez Cossío is the author of nine novels as well as numerous other works, including poetry, short stories, children's books, and a memoir.
