José Donoso

José Donoso was born on 5 October 1924 in Santiago. As a young man he travelled through Patagonia, worked on the docks of Buenos Aires and tended sheep in Magallanes, then studied English at the Instituto Pedagógico. A grant from the Doherty Foundation took him to Princeton, from which he graduated in 1951; he then taught English at the Kent School and at the Universidad Católica. Settled in Spain in 1967, he returned to Chile in 1981, received the National Prize for Literature in 1990 and died in Santiago on 7 December 1996.

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• NovelCoronationCoronaciónJosé Donoso · 1957Literature