Dauno Totoro Taulis

Biography Son of an Italo-Mexican father, Dauno Totoro Nieto, and a Chilean mother, María Inés Taulis. He was born in Moscow during the period of the now-defunct Soviet Union. Throughout his life, he lived in several countries such as Canada, Argentina, Mexico, and the unusual Trinidad and Tobago, but he has spent most of his life residing in Chile.

During his youth, he lived under the Chile's Pinochet regime, where he played an active role in opposing it, constantly calling for subversion and the recovery of a «lost democracy». The consequences of these actions were political persecution and the imposed need to leave the country. At that time, he was an active student at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (PUC), which offered him no help and ultimately expelled him from the Biology program.

His first works in investigative journalism brought him recognition, winning the José Martí Latin American Journalism Prize in 1994 for a series of chronicles and reports on the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico. His later development as a writer earned him the Altazor Award alongside the Teatrocinema company in 2008.