What is Alicia Yánez Cossío?
[[File:Alicia Yánez Cossío, fotografía análoga. Quito, Ecuador 2014.png|thumb|Yáñez Cossío in [[Quito]], 2014]] '''Alicia Yánez Cossío''' (born 10 September 1928) is a [[Ecuador]]ian poet, novelist and journalist. She is one of the leading figures in Ecuadorian literature. In 1996, she became the first Ecuadorian to win the [[Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize]]. In 2008, she was awarded Ecuador's highest literary prize, [[Premio Eugenio Espejo]], in 2008. Yánez Cossío was born in [[Quito]]. She was married to [[Cuba]]n-born Luis Campos Martínez. The couple had five children.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ecuadorfiction.com/alicia-yanez-cossio|title=Alicia Yáñez Cossío|work=Ecuador Fiction|access-date=27 November 2022}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Yanez Cossio, Alicia}} [[Category:1928 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Ecuadorian journalists]] [[Category:South American novelists]] {{bio-stub}}