Author Description

Nicolas Kingman is a journalist, writer and politician from Loja, Ecuador. This edition of his Complete Works includes the novels "Gods, demigods and astronauts" (1982) and "The Witch's Broom" (2000) and also includes a selection of his newspaper reports published in the Diners journal as well as autobiographical text. Literature and politics have been the two great passions that have governed Kingman's life. In 1933 he began his vast literary and journalistic career at the newspaper El Telegrafo and then went on to join the writing staff at the newspapers La Tierra and El Diario. Since 1986 he is Director of the newspaper La Hora. In 1997 Kingman was awarded Ecuador's highest honor, The National Prize of Culture "Premio Eugenio Espejo" for his contribution to the country's culture and literature.