Alicia Yáñez Cossío (born December 10, 1928, in Quito[1] ) is a prominent Ecuadorian poet, novelist and journalist.

When she was six years old she entered the Sagrados Corazones School of Quito, where she stayed for a while due to academic failings stemming from a dislike of arithmetic.

Irony, sarcasm and hyperbole make evident twisted masculine superiority, where she critiques social concepts, such as virginity, homosexuality, etc.

When the original authors left the island, the stories were confiscated, later to be re-written in 1996, mixing history with crude realism.

This contest aims to stimulate all the districts of Pichincha's provinces to contribute to the creation of spaces for expression, research and strengthening of cultural identity.