Juan León Mera
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Juan León Mera Martínez (June 28, 1832, Ambato—December 13, 1894) was an Ecuadorian poet, novelist, journalist, critic, politician and satirist.
Mera is mostly known as the the father of Ecuadoran literature. He is the author of Cumandá (1879), Ecuador’s legendary novel about the love affair of a young woman from a tribe of Amazonian headhunters and the son of a Spanish Dominican friar. The novel is widely taught in Ecuadoran primary and secondary school's and is considered to be one of the greatest achievements in the nineteenth century literature of Latin America.
He also wrote the words to the Ecuadoran national anthem.
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