Miguel Donoso Pareja
Miguel Donoso Pareja (July 13, 1931 – March 16, 2015) was an Ecuadorian writer. In 2006, he won the Premio Eugenio Espejo Award.[1]
Miguel Donoso Pareja | |
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| Born | July 13, 1931 Guayaquil, Ecuador |
| Died | March 16, 2015 (aged 83) Guayaquil, Ecuador |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | Ecuadorian |
| Notable awards | Premio Eugenio Espejo (2006) |
| Spouse | Judith Gutiérrez Moscoso, Aralia López González |
In 1985 Donoso Pareja was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship grant of $26,000 to write fiction; he then traveled several months in Spain and other European countries and spent all the money, and so returned to Ecuador, locked himself up in a borrowed apartment, and wrote 22 stories of love.
Pareja died in Guayaquil, Ecuador from Parkinson's disease, aged 83.