Jenny Estrada

Jenny María Estrada Ruiz (21 June 1940 – 9 February 2024) was an Ecuadorian writer and journalist.

[1] She was the first woman to write an opinion piece for El Universo and she created the Julio Jaramillo Municipal Museum of Popular Music.

In 1994 she researched and wrote a book about the customs and traditions of her home city[3] titled Del Tiempo de la Yapa.

[5] Two years later she wrote El Montubio - un forjador de identidad about the cowboys who lived on the coast.

[6] The award was made by the economist Elizabeth Cabezas Guerrero who was the, President of Ecuador's National Assembly.