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Isaac Chocrón
(25 September 1930 - 6 November 2011) Venezuela

Isaac Chocrón

Novelist, playwright and translator

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Born in Maracay (Venezuelan state of Aragua) into a Sephardic family, he received his first education in a Catholic school, later completing his Baccalaureate at a Protestant institution in Bordentown, New Jersey. He studied humanities and economics at the universities of Syracuse, Columbia and Manchester. He defined himself as "lefty, Jew, homosexual and writer."

He wrote a first novel in 1956, Pasaje, and his first play, Monica y el Florentino, three years later. Founder of the National Theater Company and director of the School of Arts of the Central University of Venezuela and the Teresa Carreño Theater. Isaac Chocrón will continue his teaching at the head of the National Theater Company, the Teresa Carreño Theater and the School of Arts of the Central University of Venezuela (UCV) in Caracas.

In 1967, Isaac Chocrón, José Ignacio Cabrujas, Román Chalbaud and others founded "El Nuevo Grupo", who dominated the Venezuelan scene for twenty years. They were called "Holy Trinity of the Performing Arts" in Venezuela. Their influence extended to the cinema (thanks to Chalbaud) and to the soap operas (thanks to Cabrujas). He was National Prize of Theater in 1979.

Influenced by American authors, Chocrón multiplies the challenges of the traditional family and the emotional utopias, imbued with his own experience and references to his close relations. Film lovers recall the adaptation of the household to three of La maxima felicidad (1982), directed by the Venezuelan director Mauricio Walerstein.

In addition to essays on the theater, Chocrón has never stopped writing novels: Cincuenta vacas gordas (1980), Pronombres personales (2002), among others. "I do not believe that the theater carries ideas or messages: it is people in an irregular situation, tense, that changes them," he said. "Theater is transformation, these people must change for good or evil, otherwise there is no work." Chocrón had given his manuscripts and archives to the Sephardic Museum in Caracas.

Isaac Chocrón died of cancer in Caracas, at 81 years old.

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Source: https://es.wikipedia.org/ & http://america-latina.blog.lemonde.fr/

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