Oswaldo Castro
Oswaldo Castro | |
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| Born | July 29, 1902 Chone, Ecuador |
| Died | June 26, 1992 (aged 89) Bethesda, Maryland, USA |
| Resting place | Portoviejo, Ecuador |
| Pen name | Oscar Waldoosty |
| Occupation | poet, journalist, statistician, translator, novelist |
| Language | Spanish, English, Italian |
Oswaldo José de los Ángeles Castro Intriago (29 July 1902 – 26 June 1992) was an Ecuadorian journalist, teacher, poet, statistician, translator/reviser, and novelist. He was instrumental in founding Chone's first newspaper, the cultural weekly El Iris; in organizing the first census of the city of Quito, Ecuador as president of its technical commission; and in promoting the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization as its liaison officer for Southern Latin America. While in retirement in Madrid, Spain, he published La Mula Ciega (1970), a loosely autobiographical novel about two teenagers coming of age in the early 1900s with Chone, Bahía de Caráquez, Quito, Guayaquil, and the Galápagos as backdrops.