Biography

Rocío Durán-Barba, a writer of Ecuadorian nationality,is a novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and painter. She lives between Paris and Geneva.
She has a doctorate in Law from the Catholic University of Ecuador; achieved post-doctorates in International Diplomacy at the University of Vienna, the Diplomatic School of Vienna and 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 UNESCO consultant and 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 wrote more than 700 articles for the Quito paper El Comercio and for the chain of Diarios de América. Her articles have been also published in journals such as Correos del Arte and Arte Hispano from Madrid, Libros Abiertos from Paris, Letras del Ecuador and El búho from Quito, Espacios Latinos form Lyon, with a number of which she continues to collaborate.
She has exhibited her paintings in Quito, the USA and France; and these reveal themes parallel to those of her literary works. In many cases, her paintings illustrate her own books.