Edison Gabriel Paucar Tufiño (Quito, July 29, 1988) is an Ecuadorian novelist, short story writer and journalist. In 2012, his book of short stories Malas compañías y otros caballos de Troya won the Joaquín Gallegos Lara Prize. Paucar’s first novel Mientras llega la lluvia (2017) was a finalist of the North Texas Book Festival Award and received honorable mention at the Darío Guevara Mayorga Prize. Since 2019 he has worked as a journalist at La Hora newspaper.
Edison Paucar has written a demanding and dramatic first novel [Mientras llega la lluvia] about youth, friendship, betrayal and violence, in a school institution that becomes one more character in the story, a microworld where the best and worst of the human being converge.
Jorge Carrión, Spanish literary critic
Edison Paucar reads a fragment from his novel
Awards
- Joaquín Gallegos Lara Prize, Ecuador, 2012. (For his book of short stories Malas compañías y otros caballos de Troya)
- Finalist of the North Texas Book Festival Prize, United States, 2018. (For his novel Mientras llega la lluvia)
- Honorable Mention at the Dario Guevara Mayorga Prize, Ecuador 2018. (For his novel Mientras llega la lluvia)
- Finalist for the Jorge Mantilla Journalism Award, Ecuador, 2019. (For his article Los venezolanos tienen una madre en el Juncal)
Works
- Malas compañías y otros caballos de Troya (2012)
- Mientras llega la lluvia (2017)