Sonia Chocrón

Sonia Chocrón is a Venezuelan poet, novelist, screenwriter and playwright of Sephardic origin. She is related to the Venezuelan dramatist Isaac Chocrón.
Born in a Moroccan 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 find 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 Europe, Latin America, and United States, among others.

First finalist, Fundarte Prize of Poetry, 1991.
First finalist, José Antonio Pérez Bonalde International Prize of Poetry, 1996.
Mention of Honour for the collection of poems La Buena Hora, Literary Biennial José Rafael Pocaterra, 1996.
Winner, Annual Tales Contest of the newspaper El Nacional for the tale La Señora Hyde, 2000.