Enrique Gil Gilbert (July 8, 1912 - February 21, 1973), born in the coastal city of Guayaquil, was an Ecuadorian novelist.
Gil Gilbert was the youngest of the so-called "Grupo de Guayaquil" (Group of Guayaquil). The "Grupo de Guayaquil" was one of the most recognized literary groups in Ecuador in 1930-1940. Its members were the writers Demetrio Aguilera Malta, Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco, Joaquín Gallegos Lara, and José de la Cuadra. They wrote novels about the Ecuadorian mestizo.
Gil Gilbert's writings include the novel Yunga (1933), the book of short stories Relatos de Emanuel (1939), and his most famous novel Nuestro Pan (1942), which has been translated to the German and Czech languages.
He spent the rest of his life in politics as a high-ranking communist, and made many visits to the U.S.S.R. before his death.
Enrique Gil Gilbert married Alba Calderon, a painter and a revolutionary who funded the movement for the recognition of women in Ecuador. They have two sons: Enrique Gil Calderon, an extraordinary musician who is the founder of the choral culture in the country, and Antonio Gil Calderon, a doctor and businessman.
Gil Gilbert has as his only descendants his five grandchildren: Mariana Gil Dubasova, the only daughter of his son Antonio. Beatriz Gil Parra, a singer of popular music, daughter of Beatriz Parra Durango with his son Enrique (Kily) who married for a second time with Dr. Miriam Estrada-Castillo. They had three children together: Alfredo Antonio Gil Estrada, a Lawyer. Fernando Mauricio Gil Estrada a musician, and Alba Yolanda Gil Estrada.