This afternoon at 7 pm, the Embassy of Chile, next to Casa América remembers the writer José Donoso in his room Miguel de Cervantes of the diplomatic center. Free admission until capacity is full.
José Donoso Yáñez was born in Santiago de Chile on 5 October 1924 and died on 7 December 1996. Studied literature first at the University of Chile and later at Princeton in the United States.
Donoso specialized in the story (in 1950 he became known in the United States thanks to his story The Blue Woman), until publishing his first novel, Coronación, in 1957. In 1961 he married María del Pilar Serrano. He was a columnist and contributor to the magazine Ercilla until 1965. Considered a member of the Chilean “Generation of 50” (also known as the “Boom Generation”), his criticism of his country’s upper-class society and his anti-power stance against Pinochet led to his exile to Spain in 1973.
Since then, Donoso has written several works criticizing the Pinochet dictatorship, including Casa de campo (1978). He also developed the poetic genre, as can be seen in the book Poemas de un novelista (1981). He won the International Literature Prize of his country in 1990. Of international relevance, his works have been translated into more than 15 languages and several of his novels and stories have been adapted for film.
The event will be welcomed by Moisés Morera Martín, director of programming at Casa de América, and Javier Velasco Villegas, ambassador of Chile to Spain, and will include dialogue with Carlos Franz, a Chilean writer; Pablo Montoya, a Colombian writer, and Sergio Ramírez, Nicaraguan writer. Selena Millares, professor of Spanish-American literature at the Universidad Autónoma will moderate.
