Agustin Cueva, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Agustin Cueva

Ecuadorian writer

Date of Birth: 23-Sep-1937

Place of Birth: Ibarra, Imbabura Province, Ecuador

Date of Death: 01-May-1992

Profession: writer, university teacher, sociologist, literary critic

Nationality: Ecuador

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Agustin Cueva Davila (Ibarra, September 23, 1937 – Quito, May 1, 1992) was an Ecuadorian writer, literary critic, and marxist sociologist. He had great interest in dependency theory and was at the center of many political debates both within Ecuador and throughout Latin America.
He received the Essay Award from the Siglo XXI Publishing House for his book El desarrollo del capitalismo en América Latina (1977; The Development of Capitalism in Latin America).
In addition to writing many essays on the social, political and cultural issues of South America, Cueva was a professor at the Central University of Ecuador, President of the Latin American Sociological Association, and directed the Graduate Studies Division of the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.He died of cancer in Quito on May 1, 1992.