In 1958, he left Chile for Buenos Aires, returning to Chile in 1960. Eight years later, it was translated and published in the United States by Alfred A Knopf and in England by The Bodley Head. In 1957, while he lived with a family of fishermen in the Isla Negra, he published his first novel, Coronación ( Coronation), in which he described the high Santiaguina classes and their decadence. His first book, Veraneo y otros cuentos ( Summer Vacation and Other Stories), was published in 1955 and won the Premio Municipal de Santiago (Municipal Prize of Santiago) the following year. He then returned to Chile and in 1954 started teaching English at the Universidad Católica (Catholic University) and in the Kent School. In 1951, he traveled to Mexico and Central America. An Interpretation of Her Novels Through the Attitudes of Heroines.' Career Donoso graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English from Princeton in 1951 after completing a senior thesis titled 'The Elegance of Mind of Jane Austen. The Princeton magazine, MSS, published his first two stories, both written in English: 'The Blue Woman' (1950) and 'The Poisoned Pastries' (1951). Blackmur, Lawrence Thompson and Allan Tate. In 1949, thanks to a scholarship from the Doherty Foundation, he changed to studying English literature at Princeton University, where he studied under such professors as R. Two years later, he finished high school and signed up to study English in the Institute of Teaching in the Universidad de Chile (University of Chile). In 1945 he traveled to the southernmost part of Chile and Argentina, where he worked on sheep farms in the province of Magallanes. Coming from a comfortable family, during his childhood he worked as a juggler and an office worker, much before he developed as a writer and teacher. He studied in The Grange School, where he was classmates with Luis Alberto Heiremans and Carlos Fuentes, and in Liceo José Victorino Lastarria (José Victorino Lastarria High School). His works deal with a number of themes, including sexuality, the duplicity of identity, psychology, and a sense of dark humor.ĭonoso was born in Santiago to the physician José Donoso Donoso and Alicia Yáñez ( Eliodoro Yáñez's niece). His best known works include the novels Coronación ( Coronation), El lugar sin límites ( Hell Has No Limits) and El obsceno pájaro de la noche ( The Obscene Bird of Night).

He returned to Chile in 1981 and lived there until his death.ĭonoso is the author of a number of short stories and novels, which contributed greatly to the Latin American literary boom. Although he had left his country in the sixties for personal reasons, after 1973 he said his exile was also a form of protest against the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. He lived most of his life in Chile, although he spent many years in self-imposed exile in Mexico, the United States and Spain. José Manuel Donoso Yáñez (5 October 1924 – 7 December 1996), known as José Donoso, was a Chilean writer, journalist and professor. National Prize for Literature (Chile) 1990

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