Claudia Ulloa Donoso

born in 1979 in Lima, Peru, she is a writer and language teacher. After studying tourism in Peru, she moved to Valencia, Spain, before relocating to northern Norway. There, she first studied sociology and later Spanish at the University of Tromsø. She has published short story collections and a novel. In her work, Ulloa Donoso explores themes such as speechlessness, migration, addiction, and friendship. Her writing often hints at possible parallels to her own experience of moving to another country, while always maintaining a fictional framework. In 2022, she published her debut novel »Yo maté a un perro en Rumanía«, a work that shows how community can emerge even without a shared language. The book has been translated into several languages, including Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil), Italian, Norwegian, and Chinese. In 2017, she was named one of the 39 most promising young Latin American authors by Bogota39, an initiative of the Hay Festival and the city of Bogotá. Alongside her literary career, Claudia Ulloa Donoso has worked for many years as a Spanish and Norwegian teacher for migrants in Trondheim, Norway, where she lives.

Pajarito 
Libros del Laurel 
Santiago de Chile, 2015 

Little Bird 
Deep Vellum Publishing 
Dallas, 2021 
[Ü: Lily Meyer] 

Yo maté a un perro en Rumanía  
Almadía 
Madrid, 2022