Icaza - Ikasa (English spelling) Jorge Icaza

Ecuadorian novelist. After dropping out of university, he changed jobs several times but aspired to be a writer. After publishing several plays, he gained worldwide fame as an indigenism writer with his collection of short stories, Mud of the Mountains (1933), and his novel, Huacipungo (1934), which depicts the tragedies of three different characters: the individualless Indians who move in groups, the mixed-race people who directly supervise them, and the white people who control the mixed-race people but are themselves controlled by foreign capital. He continued to write many works, including a series of novels, In the Streets (1935, America Prize winner), Chorros (1938), and Wailapamushkas (1948), which are based on his childhood experiences spent on his uncle's plantation and sharply address the ethnic and political issues facing Ecuador.

[Tetsuyuki Ando]

"Washipungo" translated by Takeyoshi Ito (1974, Asahi Shimbun)

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エクアドルの小説家。大学中退後、職を転々としながらも作家を志し、戯曲を数編発表したあと、短編集『山の泥』（1933）と、集団で動く没個性的なインディオ、彼らを直接監督する混血、その混血を支配するものの自らは外国資本に支配される白人、という三者三様の悲劇を描いた小説『ワシプンゴ』（1934）で原住民主義(インディヘニスモ)作家としての世界的名声を得る。その後も、伯父の大農園で過ごした少年期の体験を下敷きにして、エクアドルの抱える民族的、政治的問題を鋭く突いた一連の小説『街にて』（1935。アメリカ賞受賞）、『混血たち(チョーロス)』（1938）、『ワイラパムシュカス』（1948）をはじめ、数多くの作品を残した。

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『伊藤武好訳『ワシプンゴ』（1974・朝日新聞社）』

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