Demetrio Aguilera Malta, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Demetrio Aguilera Malta

writer

Date of Birth: 24-May-1909

Place of Birth: Guayaquil, Guayas Province, Ecuador

Date of Death: 28-Dec-1981

Profession: writer, diplomat, journalist, film director

Nationality: Ecuador

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Demetrio Aguilera Malta (Guayaquil, May 24, 1909 – México D.F., December 29, 1981) was an Ecuadorian writer, director, painter, and diplomat.
He was a member of the Guayaquil Group of the 1930s, who used social realism in their writings.
He used magical realism in his masterpiece Siete lunas y siete serpientes (1970), which was translated into English as Seven Serpents and Seven Moons by Gregory Rabassa in 1979.