Claudia Donoso

A visual artist, journalist, and photographer, Claudia Donoso (1955) worked for years as a journalist for several important publications, including the magazines Hoy, Apsi, and Paula, until retiring in 2007 to live in Catapilco, in the Fifth Region of Valparaíso. After interviewing unclassifiable literary figures such as Adolfo Couve, the poetess Stella Díaz Varín, and Enrique Lihn, her partner in the eighties from whom she says she learned everything about the genre, Donoso made incursions into prose with the book Insectario Amoroso (Sudamericana, 2004). Back in Santiago after over a decade of internal exile, Donoso, niece of the celebrated novelist José Donoso, displayed his collage works in April of last year.