Ángel Emilio Hidalgo Ortiz (Guayaquil, 1973) is an Ecuadorian historian, a poet, a professor at Guayaquil’s University of the Arts (UArtes) since 2014, and the director of the Guayaquil Municipal Library since 2021. His poetry collections include “Beberás de estas aguas” (1997, First Prize in the Ismael Pérez Pazmiño National Poetry Contest), “El trazado del tiempo” (2003, honorable mention in the National Literature Contest of the Guayaquil Municipality), “Fulgor de la derrota” (2010), and “Acapulco so close” (2021). Hidalgo’s poems have been published in various Ecuadorian and Latin American anthologies. such as “Porque nuestro es el exilio” (2006), which features the poetry of three Ecuadorian authors, Ángel Emilio Hidalgo, Luis Carlos Mussó and Ernesto Carrión, as well as Fabián Darío Mosquera, a Colombian poet living in Guayaquil. In addition, he is the co-author of more than 20 books of historical and cultural essays and is a member of Ecuador’s National Academy of History.
Education
He has a master’s degree in History from the Simon Bolivar Andean University.
Videos
Ángel Emilio Hidalgo interview
Ángel Emilio Hidalgo speaking about what is poetry
Ángel Emilio Hidalgo interview (Silla Vacía)
Ángel Emilio Hidalgo interview
Works
- Beberás de estas aguas (1997)
- El trazado del tiempo (2003)
- Fulgor de la derrota (2010)
- Acapulco so close (2021)
He has also contributed to the following anthologies
- Porque nuestro es el exilio