César Ariosto Orellana (born circa early 1900s – unknown) was a co-founder of the César Borja Literary Society in Quito, Ecuador, alongside Jorge Carrera Andrade and Luis Aníbal Sánchez in January 1917. He attended Colegio Mejía, a high school in Quito, beginning in 1914, where he joined a budding literary circle that included future luminaries such as Carrera Andrade, later regarded as one of Ecuador’s foremost 20th-century poets, and Sánchez, an influential figure in Ecuadorian prose poetry of the modernismo era before his untimely death at 20. In April 1917, the society published the magazine La Idea, serving as its official organ, with Orellana as the magazine’s president and Carrera Andrade as treasurer. La Idea provided an early platform for poets such as Carrera Andrade, Sánchez, and Gonzalo Pozo, publishing works largely influenced by the modernismo movement as well as literary essays.
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