José Donoso was born in Santiago de Chile in 1924 and received
an upper-class education in Chile and at Princeton University in
the USA, returning to Chile in 1952 to teach English to the young
of the privileged class. He began publishing with short stories in
his early thirties and his first novel Coronación (Coronation) came out in 1957
when he was thirty three. It was followed by Este domingo (This Sunday) and
El lugar sin límites (Hell Has
No Limits) in 1966. 1970 saw El obsceno
pájaro de la noche (The Obscene Bird of the
Night), his most ambitious novel. H…
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Shaw, Donald Leslie. "José Donoso". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 01 May 2009 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=11977, accessed 19 May 2025.]
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