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Demetrio Aguilera Malta was an Ecuadorian writer, director, painter, and diplomat. He was a member of the Guayaquil Group of the 1930s, who used social realism in their writings. He used magical realism in his masterpiece Siete lunas y siete serpientes (1970), which was translated into English as Seven Serpents and Seven Moons by Gregory Rabassa in 1979.

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Jorge Luis Cáceres is an Ecuadorian writer, editor, and anthologist.

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Eliécer Cárdenas Espinosa is an Ecuadorian novelist.

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Alejandro Carrión Aguirre was a poet, novelist and journalist. He wrote the novel La espina (1959), the short story book La manzana dañada (1983), and numerous poetry books. As a journalist he published many of his articles under the pseudonym "Juan Sin Cielo." In 1956 he founded, along with Pedro Jorge Vera, the political magazine La Calle. He directed the literary magazine Letras del Ecuador. He received the Maria Moors Cabot prize (1961) from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism as well as the Ecuadorian National Prize Premio Eugenio Espejo (1981) for his body of work. He was the nephew of Benjamín Carrión and Clodoveo Carrión.

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Luis Alberto Costales Cazar was an Ecuadorian poet, philosopher, teacher, speaker, historian, farmer and politician.

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José de la Cuadra was an Ecuadorian social realist writer, whose short stories are among the most important in Ecuadorian literature.

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César Dávila Andrade was an Ecuadorian poet and writer.

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Rafael Díaz Ycaza was an Ecuadorian poet, novelist, short story writer, and columnist for the Ecuadorian newspaper El Universo.

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Joaquín Gallegos Lara was an Ecuadorian social realist novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist.

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Jorge Icaza Coronel, commonly referred to as Jorge Icaza, was a writer from Ecuador, best known for his novel Huasipungo, which brought attention to the exploitation of Ecuador's indigenous people by Ecuadorian whites.

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Jorge Eduardo Velasco Mackenzie is an Ecuadorian writer and professor. His most popular novel is El rincón de los justos (1983) about Guayaquil's lumpen proletariat.

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Abdón Ubidia (1944) is an Ecuadorian writer who is considered one of the most representative and relevant voices of modern Ecuadorian literature. He was the 2012 recipient of the Premio Eugenio Espejo in Literature, awarded to him by President Rafael Correa.

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Javier Vásconez is an Ecuadorian novelist, short story writer, and editor.