Full Name Sonia Chocrón Years active 1992– | Nationality Venezuelan Children Ximena Abadi | |
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Occupation Poet, writer, screenwriter, playwright Alma mater | ||
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.
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Born in a Spanish Jewish family, she completed her Social Communication degree at the Andrés Bello Catholic University. 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.