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About Fernando Chaves
- Fernando Chaves Reyes (February 13, 1902 – 1999) was a novelist, essayist, and journalist.
- He was the first Ecuadorian writer to depict an indigenous theme in his writings. Chaves was Ecuador's ambassador to El Salvador, Ecuador and Nicaragua.Chaves' novel Plata y bronce (Silver and Bronze) (1927) was the first indigenist novel in Ecuador.
- Chaves was influenced by the Bolivian novelist Alcides Arguedas, who in 1919 wrote the indigenist novel Raza de bronze (Race of Bronze).
- Chávez' novel influenced other future Chaves was born in Otavalo.
- He was married to Magdalena Marie Ribreau, who died of a stroke in 1982.In 1991 he received the National Grand Cross of the Order of Merit. Chaves died in 1999.
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