Fernando Cazón Vera

He was born in Quito in 1935 but moved as a child to Guayaquil upon the early death of his father in 1941.

He was the only child born to German Jan Andries Jolles, a communist activist also known in exile since 1933 as ‘Manuel Enrique Cazón Arribar’, and Ecuadorian Leonor Vera.

His father was a son of Nazi Party member André Jolles and his mother a daughter of Alfredo R. Vera Benavides, Chief Public Prosecutor of Guayaquil.

He was associated with the literary group Madrugada which also included figures such as Efraín Jara Idrovo, Jorge Enrique Adoum, Hugo Salazar Tamariz, etc.

The Ecuadorian House of Culture published an extensive anthology of his poetic work (1958-2000) in the Poesía Junta collection.