Raúl Andrade Moscoso
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Biography
Raúl Andrade Moscoso (October 4, 1905 – September 10, 1983) was an Ecuadorian journalist and playwright.
Andrade traveled throughout Mexico and Colombia, where he worked as a journalist for El Tiempo (Bogota, Colombia), and published his book La internacional negra en Colombia (The Black International in Colombia), a collection of articles on the crisis in Colombia. He represented the Ecuadorian government in a number of countries. Because of his merits he received several decorations: "Al Merito" (Ecuador), "Orden de San Carlos" (Colombia), and "Comendador de la Orden de Leopoldo" (Belgium). As a dramatist, Andrade published Suburbio (The Outskirts), a romantic evocation on the suburbs of Quito.
He was awarded the Ecuadorian National Prize of Culture "Premio Eugenio Espejo" in 1983.
Works
- “Suburbio” (1931), a comedy in two acts
- “Cocktails”, a compilation of literary and political articles published in La Mañana and Zumbambico newspapers
- “Gobelinos de Niebla” (1937)
- “El Perfil de la Quimera”(1951)
- “La Internacional Negra en Colombia y otros ensayos” (1954)
- “Julio Andrade, Crónica de una Vida Heroica” (1962)