In 1985 Donoso Pareja was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship grant of $ 26,000 to write fiction ; he then traveled several months in Spain and other European countries and spent all the money , and so returned to Ecuador , locked himself up in a borrowed apartment , and wrote 22 stories of love , which expressed a deep sense of loneliness and despair .
In 1985 Donoso Pareja was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship grant of $ 26,000 to write fiction ; he then traveled several months in Spain and other European countries and spent all the money , and so returned to Ecuador , locked himself up in a borrowed apartment , and wrote 22 stories of love .