Contemporary literature

Demetrio Aguilera Malta (Guayaquil, May 24, 1909 – México D.F., December 28, 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 the Seven Serpents and Seven Moons by Gregory Rabassa in 1979.