Awards
• Second prize, Gabriel Miró International Short Story Contest (Alicante, España), for the short story 'Levedad del vino', 1986. • Finalist,'Novedades y Diana' International Literary Prize (Mexico), with the novel El espantapájaros, 1988. • Ecuador's National Prize for Literature 'Aurelio Espinosa Pólit' for the short-story collection Fricciones, 1990. • Second Prize for Art and Literature, Universidad Central del Ecuador, for the novel El espantapájaros, 1991. • Finalist,'Planeta/Joaquín Mortiz' Award (Mexico), with the novel La derrota, 1992 (later published in revised form in 2003 as El poder de los vencidos). • First Prize for Art and Literature, Universidad Central del Ecuador, for the short-story collection El Mar y la Muralla, 1992. • Third Prize, IV Biennal Ecuadorian Novel Contest, for the work El pulso de la nada, 1996. • Doctorado Honoris Causa en Artes ('in artibus') de la Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), 1998. ==References==