Biography

Rocío DuránBarba, a writer of Ecuadorian nationality, is a novelist, poet, essayist, journalist and painter. She lives between Paris, Geneva and Quito. She has a doctorate in Law from the Catholic University of Ecuador; achieved post-doctorates in International Studies, International Law and Diplomacy at the University of Vienna, and at the Sorbonne University of Paris. She studied art at Colorado Women's College in Denver. She was professor at the Law School of the Catholic University of Ecuador. In Paris she was a UNESCO consultant and an Ecuadorian embassy advisor to that organization.
She made reports for television and wrote articles for newspapers. Among other important figures, she interviewed President François Mitterrand in 1991. She has written more than 700 articles for the Equadorian newspaper El Comercio and for the Latin American's network Diarios de América. Her articles have also been published in journals and European magazines (such as Correos del Arte and Arte Hispano from Madrid, Libros Abiertos from Paris, Espacios Latinos form Lyon...).
Rocío DuránBarba was designated the "star writer of 2007" by the International House of Poets and Writers of Brittany, France, after the institution chose her book of poems Nací en un cráter,, to be translated and studied by the ateliers of translation of the region of Saint-Malo.
In 2010, the editions Caractères chose to publish her book of poems "Ecos de la eterna primavera" (Hymne à l'éternel printemps) to honour the Bicentenary of the Independence of Latin American Countries in Paris.