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Miguel Donoso Pareja

ミゲル・ドノソ・パレハ

Migeru Donoso Pareha

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1931-07-13 (Guayaquil)
Died
2015-03-16 (Guayaquil) age 83
Nationality
Ecuadorian
Languages
Spanish
Residence History
Guayaquil, Ecuador → Mexico (exile)

Career

Occupations
Writer, Teacher, Journalist, Editor
Active Years
1951-2015
Affiliations
House of Ecuadorian Culture (Guayas branch)
Influenced By
Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco, Enrique Gil Gilbert

Awards

Premio Eugenio Espejo
2006
Category: 文学
Organization: Office of the President of Ecuador
Result: 受賞
Jorge Carrera Andrade Award
2002
Work: Adagio en G mayor
Organization: Municipality of Quito
Result: 受賞
Guggenheim Fellowship
1985
Category: フィクション執筆
Organization: Guggenheim Foundation
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Día tras día

1976 Novel

A novel about his exile

ExileLoneliness

Nunca más el mar

1981 Novel

A novel about his return from exile

ReturnHomeland

Lo mismo que el olvido

1985 Short stories

22 stories of love expressing loneliness and despair

LoveLonelinessDespair

Bibliography

  • La Mutación del Hombre (1958), poetry
  • Las Raíces del Hombre (1958), poetry
  • Krelko y otros cuentos (1962), stories
  • Los Invencibles (1963), poetry
  • Primera Canción del Exilado (1968), poetry
  • El Hombre que mataba a sus hijos (1968), stories
  • Henry Blak (1983), novel
  • La Hora del Lobo (1970), articles
  • Día tras día (1976), novel
  • Cantos para celebrar una Muerte (1977), poetry
  • Nunca más el mar (1981), novel
  • Lo mismo que el olvido (1985), stories
  • Todo lo que inventamos es cierto (1991), stories
  • Hoy empiezo a acordarme (1994), novel
  • El Otro lado del Espejo (1996), stories
  • La Muerte de Tyrone Power López en el monumental Barcelona (1997), novel
  • Ecuador, identidad o esquizofrenia (1998), sociology

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Realism reflecting exile experienceDepictions of loneliness and despair
Recurring Motifs
ExileHomelandLoneliness

Health

  • Parkinson's disease
    晩年(2000年代から2015年)
    Suffered for years leading to death

Legacy

Ecuadorian writer known for works on exile, winner of national literature prize, faced political persecution as communist.

Trivia

  • Uncle was novelist Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco.
  • Arrested and exiled by military junta in 1963.
  • Edited magazine with Juan Rulfo et al. in Mexico.
  • Married twice.