Sonia Chocrón

Sonia Chocrón
Born Sonia Chocrón
(1961-03-17)March 17, 1961
Caracas, Venezuela
Nationality Venezuelan
Alma mater Universidad Católica Andrés Bello
Occupation Poet, writer, screenwriter, playwright
Years active 1992–
Religion Jewish
Children Ximena Abadi
Relatives Isaac Chocrón

Sonia Chocrón (born 17 March 1961 in Caracas) is a Venezuelan poet, novelist, screenwriter and playwright of Jewish origin. She is related to the Venezuelan dramatist Isaac Chocrón.[1]

Born in a Spanish Jewish family,[2] she completed her Social Communication degree at the Andrés Bello Catholic University.[3] In 1982 she entered the Workshop of Poetry of the Rómulo Gallegos Center for Latin American Studies. In 1988 she was selected to participate in the Workshop "The Argument of Fiction" taught by Gabriel García Márquez at the School of Cinema located in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. After that, she traveled to Mexico invited by the Nobel Prize Academy to found the Gabriel García Márquez Cinematographic Bureau. Her literary work, as well as her scripts for cinema and television, have awarded her prizes and accolades at a local and international level.

Published works

Her literary works have been published in diverse essays and anthologies in Spain, Mexico, and United States, among others.

Scripts for cinema and TV

Scripts for Theatre

Prizes received

References

  1. Sonia Chocrón, palabras mayores.
  2. Jacqueline Goldberg: SONIA CHOCRON: a disposición del libro de la vida. El Universal, 2002
  3. "sololiteratura.com". sololiteratura.com. Retrieved 6 July 2016.
  4. "Making Narrative Witness: A Caracas-Sarajevo Collaboration - Asymptote Blog". asymptotejournal.com. Retrieved 6 July 2016.
  5. Febres, Laura (1 January 2014). "Las mujeres de Houdini y la insistencia en la evasión": 179–189. Retrieved 6 July 2016 via Dialnet.
  6. Stand Up Poetry: Imprescindible Sonia
  7. El universo sefardí de Sonia Chocrón.
  8. Sonia Chocrón: “Y yo, que soy un poco irresponsable en el teclado…”. El Nacional
  9. Oro diablo (2000).
  10. The Lost Key (2014) - Full Cast & Crew.
  11. "The Lost Key". caracasdoc.com. 7 September 2014. Retrieved 6 July 2016.
  12. Ni un pelo de tontas.
  13. Entre el malandro y la reina.
  14. El universo sefardí de Chocrón.
  15. Mrs Hyde. By Sonia Chocrón. Translated by Gemma Smith. Palabras Errantes - Latin American Literature in Translation
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