Sara Vanégas Coveña

Sara Vanégas Coveña: (1950), has her Ph.D. in Germanic Philology from Munich and her Masters in Education from Cuenca. She has taught at universities in Madrid, Munich, and Bielefeld. She is a poet, essayist, translator, and cultural worker. Among her honors are the Matilde Hidalgo de Prócel Medal awarded by Ecuador’s National Assembly in 2017 and the Jorge Carrera Andrade National Poetry Prize for her collected works in 2000. She has published 13 books of poetry, nine critical anthologies, a novela for children, a dictionary of Ecuadorean authors and dozens of essays.