Miguel Donoso Pareja

Miguel Donoso Pareja was born in Guayaquil on 13 July 1931, nephew of the novelist Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco. A communist activist, he was arrested in 1963 under the military junta, held for ten months without trial and then expelled to Mexico, where he stayed nearly eighteen years: there he ran writing workshops at the national university and at the institute of fine arts, and in 1976 directed the magazine Cambio with Juan Rulfo and Julio Cortázar. Back in 1981, he obtained a Guggenheim fellowship in 1985, presided over the Casa de la Cultura del Guayas and received the Eugenio Espejo prize in 2006. He died in March 2015.

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• NovelDía tras díaMiguel Donoso Pareja · 1976not translated into EnglishLiterature