Pareja completed his early education in his hometown: primary school at the Colegio San Luis Gonzaga of the Christian Brothers. He would monitor student conversations to ensure proper decorum. He read at night and assisted as a gate listener at the Colegio Vicente Rocafuerte, which was co-ed until 1937. Pareja had to support his family from the age of 14. Pareja was born in Guayaquil in 1908, the son of Fernando Pareja y Pareja (1862-1919) and of Amalia Diez-Canseco y Coloma (1865–1945), daughter of the former Peruvian President Francisco Diez Canseco y Corbacho and his wife.
His books have not yet been translated into English. The government of President Jaime Roldós Aguilera (1979–81) appointed Pareja as Chancellor of the Republic and he also served as Foreign Minister of Ecuador (1979–80) and Ambassador to France (1983–84). An innovator of the 20th-century Latin American novel, he was a founding member of the literary Grupo de Guayaquil ("Group of Guayaquil"), which brought a new emphasis to realistic novels. Novelist, Essayist, Journalist, Historian, DiplomatĪlfredo Pareja Diezcanseco (Octo– May 1, 1993) - born Alfredo Pareja y Díez Canseco - was a prominent Ecuadorian novelist, essayist, journalist, historian and diplomat.
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