Literature of Costa Rica
Encyclopedia
Costa Rican literature has roots in colonization and is marked by European influences. Because Costa Rica
is a young country, its literary tradition is also young. The history of Costa Rican literature dates to the end of the 19th century.
1. The Olympus generation (1890–1920): These are the writers within the model of the liberal oligarchic state. The literature of this era is characterized by its being written during a process of formation and consolidation of a national consciousness.
2. The repertory generation (1920–1940): So called because of its link to the magazine Repertorio Americano de Joaquín García Monge. During this period there was a crisis of the liberal oligarchic regime, and so the literature of the era is characterized by new forms of language, such as the grotesque style, fierce and corrosive humor, parody, and satire.
3. The 40s generation (1940–1960): During this era, social democracy was implanted in Costa Rica. It was a time of questioning and renewal, with major social reforms and a new concept of the state. Major literary themes included social problems, land distribution, and transnational corporations.
4. The urban generation (1960–1980): At this time, modernization and industrialization took shape in Costa Rica. In the literature of this era the city is the predominant theme.
5. The generation of disenchantment (1980–present): A new period of Costa Rican literature began in the 1980s. During this time, there has been a departure from the tendencies that have characterized Costa Rican literature from its beginnings. In particular, realism has been abandoned, and new forms of writing have appeared in its wake. This has led to a plurality of styles, times, and spaces within Costa Rican literature. Nevertheless, the works tend to fit within the same thematic context: disenchantment with the model of the state provided by Costa Rican politicians.
group linked to the exportation of agricultural products for the international market. There are authors recognized today that date from the 19th century. These include those belonging to the "Lira costarricense" such as Aquileo J. Echeverría
and Lisímaco Chavarría, and those of the Olympus generation such as Carlos Gagini
and Ricardo Fernández Guardia. However, it is not until the 20th century that one can speak of a consolidated and coherent Costa Rican literature.
's stay in the country, where he wrote poems and published articles in local newspapers. Modernism was not as important in Costa Rica as in other Latin American countries. However, it arrived particularly late in poetry. Modernism can be seen mixed with national themes as much in the work of writers favoring modernism (e.g. Fernández Guardia) as in that of those opposed to it (e.g. Gagini and Magón). Starting in the 1920s, a shift occurred in the discourse of modernist literature in Costa Rica, in which writers laid aside the idealization of the European world praised by earlier writers and focused on a more immediate and inward-looking reality. Thus began post-modernism or late modernism. As a result, characters and environments from Greco-Roman and German mythology, which had been common, appeared less frequently. The new modernists, or post-modernists, continued to employ the usual Précieuses
style, this time with different content. Notable poets of this era include Roberto Brenes Mesén
, Rogelio Sotela, Lisímaco Chavarría, Rafael Cardona, Rafael Estrada, Carlos Luis Sáenz, and Julián Marchena
. Marchena is one of the most important despite his having written only one book (Alas en fuga), which published in 1941, when modernism had become obsolete in other Hispanic countries.
Despite this narrative's coexistence with modernism, the 90s generation put forward a narrative of opposing character, form, and content: with a strong nationalist (anti-imperialist character), not seeking remote landscapes or characters from fables. Their books were the first works of social protest against the older moral and ethical values of the oligarchic period, the new values brought by businessmen, especially from the United States, and the "submission" of local political leaders. Their criticism, however, was social in nature and did not take the form of political opposition.
Examples of this movement include the novels Las hijas del campo and El moto by Joaquín García Monge
, which harshly criticize the old rural society and the oligarchy of village chiefs, and El árbol enfermo y La caída del águila by Carlos Gagini, which warn against the danger of foreign influence.
and Eunice Odio. The Costa Rican avant garde movement has generally been disregarded in the study of Latin American literature, though admittedly the Costa Rican movement was smaller and less influential internationally than that of other countries. Other writers of this movement included Max Jiménez
, José Marín Cañas
, and Francisco Amighett. This literary movement coincided with avant-gardism in the visual arts, developed by artists like Francisco Zúñiga
, Amighetti himself, Juan Manuel Sánchez
, and Juan Rafael Chacón.
(Puerto Limón, Muramonos Federico, Te accordás hermano), Carlos Luis Fallas
(Mamita Yunai), León Pacheco (Los pantanos del infierno), and José Marín Cañas
(El infierno verde).
and Laureano Albán
in the early 1960s. This group of poets published the Manifiesto trascendentalista (1977), signed by Laureano Albán, Julieta Dobles, Carlos Francisco Monge, and Ronald Bonilla. Carlos Francisco Monge wrote the essay "Un manifiesto veinte años después" on the same topic in 1997; it is included in his book '
, Gerardo César Hurtado, Quince Duncan
, and Alfonso Chase
.
, Rodolfo Arias Formoso, Adriano Corrales Arias, Anacristina Rossi, Francisco Rodríguez Barrientos
, Osvaldo Sauma, Guillermo Fernández Álvarez, Rodrigo Soto
, Carlos Cortés, Jorge Arturo, Vernor Muñoz, Tatiana Lobo
, Uriel Quesada, Ana Istarú, José Maria Zonta, Hugo Rivas (fallecido), Wilbert Bogantes, José Ricardo Chaves, Dorelia Barahona, Fernando Contreras Castro
, Carlos Morales
, and Alexánder Obando.
Poets born after 1965 who have published after 1990 include Juan Antillón, Mauricio Molina Delgado, David Maradiaga, Luis Chaves
, Melvyn Aguilar, María Montero, Esteban Ureña, Jeanette Amit, Julio Acuña (fallecido), Alfredo Trejos, Joan Bernal, Gustavo Solórzano Alfaro, Mauricio Vargas Ortega, Alejandra Castro, Patrick Cotter, Felipe Granados
(RIP), Paula Piedra, Laura Fuentes, Camila Schumaher, David Cruz, Vivian Cruz, Alejandro Cordero, William Eduarte, and Luis Chacón. Fiction writers born after 1965 who have published after 1990 include Heriberto Rodríguez, Mauricio Ventanas, Catalina Murillo, Manuel Marín
, Jessica Clark Cohen, Juan Murillo
, Laura Quijano, Alí Víquez Jiménez, Marco Castro
, Mario León, Guillermo Barquero, Antonio Chamu, Jesús Vargas Garita, Gustavo Adolfo Chaves, Carlos Alvarado, Albán Mora, David Eduarte, and Diego Montero.
, with his poems in En el silencio; Carmen Lyra
, writer of Cuentos de mi Tía Panchita; Carlos Luis Fallas Sibaja, with his novels Mamita Yunai, Gentes y gentecillas, Mi madrina and Marcos Ramírez; Fabián Dobles
, with the novel El sitio de las abras; Joaquín Gutiérrez
, with novels including Puerto Limón, Muramonos, Federico and Te accordás, hermano; Yolanda Oreamuno
with her novel La ruta de su evasión; Carlos Salazar Herrera
, with Cuentos de angustias y paisajes; Eunice Odio, with his poetry collection Tránsito de fuego; Isaac Felipe Azofeifa
, with Cima del gozo; Julián Marchena
with his only poetry collection Alas en fuga; José León Sánchez
, with the novel La isla de los hombres solos, Ana Antillón with poetry collections including Antro Fuego, Jorge Debravo
with poetry collections including Nosotros los hombres; and Laureano Albán
with books including Herencia del otoño. Authors whose works began to appear in the 1970s and 1980s include Rodolfo Arias, Jorge Arroyo
, Carlos Cortés, Ana Istarú, Mía Gallegos, Carlos Francisco Monge, Rodrigo Quirós (1944–1997), Anacristina Rossi, Rodrigo Soto
, Osvaldo Sauma, Milton Zárate and Juan Antillón with his multiawarded poetry collection Isla and other books.
Costa Rica
Costa Rica , officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east....
is a young country, its literary tradition is also young. The history of Costa Rican literature dates to the end of the 19th century.
Chronology
Currently, the most accepted chronology of Costa Rican literature is that proposed by professor Álvaro Quesada Soto. According to Soto, from the first literary publications in Costa Rica at the end of the 19th century, until now, there are five literary periods, which are traditionally called "generations". However, these periods are not "generations" in the traditional literary sense. Thus, the periods of Costa Rican literature are as follows.1. The Olympus generation (1890–1920): These are the writers within the model of the liberal oligarchic state. The literature of this era is characterized by its being written during a process of formation and consolidation of a national consciousness.
- Manuel Argüello MoraManuel Argüello MoraManuel Argüello Mora was born in San José, Costa Rica in 1834. He is one of the first Costa Rican authors, and with 1888's Misterio, was its first novelist. He obtained his education at the University of Santo Tomás in Costa Rica and the Universidad de San Carlos in Guatemala, where he obtained a...
- Manuel de Jesús Jiménez
- Pío Víquez
- Roberto Brenes MesénRoberto Brenes MesénRoberto Brenes Mesén was a Costa Rican politician, writer, educator, and journalist....
- Aquileo Echeverría
- Ricardo Fernández Guardia
- Carlos GaginiCarlos GaginiCarlos Gagini was a Costa Rican intellectual, philologist writer, esperantist and linguist.He was born in Costa Rica, in a family of Swiss descent. He was a significant figure in linguistics and literature in Costa Rica...
- Manuel González ZeledónManuel González ZeledónManuel González Zeledón was a Costa Rican writer. Writing under the nom-de-plume "Magón", he also worked to promote culture and literature in the country....
2. The repertory generation (1920–1940): So called because of its link to the magazine Repertorio Americano de Joaquín García Monge. During this period there was a crisis of the liberal oligarchic regime, and so the literature of the era is characterized by new forms of language, such as the grotesque style, fierce and corrosive humor, parody, and satire.
- Joaquín García MongeJoaquín García MongeJoaquín García Monge is considered one of Costa Rica's most important writers. He was born in Desamparados, Costa Rica in 1881 and was educated in both Costa Rica and Chile, where he fell under the influence of the leading literary currents of his time...
- Omar Dengo
- Carmen LyraCarmen LyraCarmen Lyra was the pseudonym of the first prominent female Costa Rican writer, born Maria Isabel Carvajal...
- Mario Sancho
- Max JiménezMax JiménezMax Jiménez, one of Costa Rica's important early writers, was born in San José, Costa Rica in 1900. His literary works include novels, short stories, essays and poetry, but he is best known for his novel El Jaul , which tells a series of events in an agricultural community in Costa Rica, though the...
3. The 40s generation (1940–1960): During this era, social democracy was implanted in Costa Rica. It was a time of questioning and renewal, with major social reforms and a new concept of the state. Major literary themes included social problems, land distribution, and transnational corporations.
- José Basileo Acuña
- Isaac Felipe AzofeifaIsaac Felipe AzofeifaIsaac Felipe Azofeifa was a Costa Rican poet, politician and educator.Azofeifa is considered one of the most important Costa Rican poets of the twentieth century.-Biography:...
- Fabián DoblesFabián DoblesFabián Dobles Rodríguez was a Costa Rican writer and left-wing political activist. A novelist, essayist, and short story writer, Rodríguez achieved international renown as an author dealing with social protest the struggles of the poor.-Biography:Dobles was born in San Antonio de Belén, but his...
- Carlos Luis FallasCarlos Luis FallasCarlos Luis Fallas Sibaja , also known as Calufa , was a Costa Rican author and political activist....
- Joaquín GutiérrezJoaquín GutiérrezJoaquín Gutiérrez is an emblematic figure of Costa Rican literature, being one of the most internationally known of its authors. He was a member of the Academia Costarricense de la Lengua, and won the Premio Nacional de Cultura, the top literary award in his country...
- Julián MarchenaJulián MarchenaJulián Marchena Valleriestra San José, March 14, 1897 - San José, May 5, 1985) was a Costa Rican poet. He was a recipient of the Magón National Prize for Culture in 1963.-References:...
- Yolanda OreamunoYolanda OreamunoYolando Oreamuno Unger was a Costa Rican writer, who was born on April 8, 1916 in San José, Costa Rica and died in México City on July 8, 1956, aged forty. Her most renowned novel is La Ruta de su Evasión .- Early life :...
- José Marín CañasJosé Marín CañasJosé Marín Cañas was born in San José, Costa Rica in 1904. His parents were Spanish, and he was educated in both Costa Rica and Spain. He worked in various occupations, most importantly journalism, which included his doing radio broadcasts of football matches. His literary career began in 1928, at...
- Carlos Luis Sáenz
- Carlos Salazar HerreraCarlos Salazar HerreraCarlos Salazar Herrera was born in San José, Costa Rica, where he attended primary and secondary school. At the age of 14, he received his first award for an essay entitled "El café"...
- Moisés Vincenzi
4. The urban generation (1960–1980): At this time, modernization and industrialization took shape in Costa Rica. In the literature of this era the city is the predominant theme.
- Alberto Cañas
- Jorge Charpentier
- Daniel Gallegos
- Virginia Grütter
- Carmen NaranjoCarmen NaranjoCarmen Naranjo Coto , is a Costa Rican novelist, poet and essayist.She was born in Cartago, the capital city of the Cartago Province. She received her primary education there at the Escuela República de Perú and her secondary at the Colegio Superior de Señoritas...
- Eunice Odio
- Samuel Rovinski
- José León SánchezJosé León SánchezJosé León Sánchez Alvarado is a Costa Rican novelist born in 1930, best known for his works Isla de los hombres solos and Tenochtitlan. He was born in Cucaracho del Río Cuarto, Puntarenas. A movie adaptation of his novel, Isla de los hombres solos was made and released by a Mexican...
- Laureano AlbánLaureano AlbánLaureano Albán Rivas is a Costa Rican writer. A native of Turrialba, he was a recipient of the Magón National Prize for Culture in 2006.-References:...
- Julieta Dobles
- Jorge DebravoJorge DebravoJorge Debravo was a prominent poet from Costa Rica.Debravo was born in Guayabo, on the slopes of the Turrialba Volcano in Costa Rica. He was the oldest of five children where he spent his early years helping his father, Joaquín Bravo Ramírez, manage a small milpa...
- Alfonso ChaseAlfonso ChaseAlfonso Chase is a contemporary Costa Rican author. He was educated in Costa Rica, Mexico, Venezuela and the United States, and he began his career in poetry in 1965...
5. The generation of disenchantment (1980–present): A new period of Costa Rican literature began in the 1980s. During this time, there has been a departure from the tendencies that have characterized Costa Rican literature from its beginnings. In particular, realism has been abandoned, and new forms of writing have appeared in its wake. This has led to a plurality of styles, times, and spaces within Costa Rican literature. Nevertheless, the works tend to fit within the same thematic context: disenchantment with the model of the state provided by Costa Rican politicians.
Origins
According to literary theorist Álvaro Quesada, "The formation of a national literature in Costa Rica was similar, in general terms, to the formation of national literatures in other Latin American countries, particularly those of Central America. This process formed part of a broader effort, the construction or invention of the 'nation', as an 'imagined community' more than a substantive reality: an effort that then responded to a project of unification and centralization of economic, political, and ideological power around a hegemonic criolloCriollo people
The Criollo class ranked below that of the Iberian Peninsulares, the high-born permanent residence colonists born in Spain. But Criollos were higher status/rank than all other castes—people of mixed descent, Amerindians, and enslaved Africans...
group linked to the exportation of agricultural products for the international market. There are authors recognized today that date from the 19th century. These include those belonging to the "Lira costarricense" such as Aquileo J. Echeverría
Aquileo J. Echeverría
Aquileo J. Echeverría was a Costa Rican politician, writer, and journalist....
and Lisímaco Chavarría, and those of the Olympus generation such as Carlos Gagini
Carlos Gagini
Carlos Gagini was a Costa Rican intellectual, philologist writer, esperantist and linguist.He was born in Costa Rica, in a family of Swiss descent. He was a significant figure in linguistics and literature in Costa Rica...
and Ricardo Fernández Guardia. However, it is not until the 20th century that one can speak of a consolidated and coherent Costa Rican literature.
Twentieth century
Twentieth-century Costa Rican literature continued to be influenced by European literature.Modernism
Literature at the beginning of the century marked a new stage in Costa Rican cultural life. At this time, modernism was not very influential despite Rubén DaríoRubén Darío
Félix Rubén García Sarmiento , known as Rubén Darío, was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-American literary movement known as modernismo that flourished at the end of the 19th century...
's stay in the country, where he wrote poems and published articles in local newspapers. Modernism was not as important in Costa Rica as in other Latin American countries. However, it arrived particularly late in poetry. Modernism can be seen mixed with national themes as much in the work of writers favoring modernism (e.g. Fernández Guardia) as in that of those opposed to it (e.g. Gagini and Magón). Starting in the 1920s, a shift occurred in the discourse of modernist literature in Costa Rica, in which writers laid aside the idealization of the European world praised by earlier writers and focused on a more immediate and inward-looking reality. Thus began post-modernism or late modernism. As a result, characters and environments from Greco-Roman and German mythology, which had been common, appeared less frequently. The new modernists, or post-modernists, continued to employ the usual Précieuses
Précieuses
The French literary style called préciosité arose in the 17th century from the lively conversations and playful word games of les précieuses , the witty and educated intellectual ladies who frequented the salon of Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet; her Chambre bleue offered a...
style, this time with different content. Notable poets of this era include Roberto Brenes Mesén
Roberto Brenes Mesén
Roberto Brenes Mesén was a Costa Rican politician, writer, educator, and journalist....
, Rogelio Sotela, Lisímaco Chavarría, Rafael Cardona, Rafael Estrada, Carlos Luis Sáenz, and Julián Marchena
Julián Marchena
Julián Marchena Valleriestra San José, March 14, 1897 - San José, May 5, 1985) was a Costa Rican poet. He was a recipient of the Magón National Prize for Culture in 1963.-References:...
. Marchena is one of the most important despite his having written only one book (Alas en fuga), which published in 1941, when modernism had become obsolete in other Hispanic countries.
The '90s generation
The '90s generation (la generación del 90) was a group of writers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This period corresponds to the height of liberalism, which caused major changes in social and working structures.Despite this narrative's coexistence with modernism, the 90s generation put forward a narrative of opposing character, form, and content: with a strong nationalist (anti-imperialist character), not seeking remote landscapes or characters from fables. Their books were the first works of social protest against the older moral and ethical values of the oligarchic period, the new values brought by businessmen, especially from the United States, and the "submission" of local political leaders. Their criticism, however, was social in nature and did not take the form of political opposition.
Examples of this movement include the novels Las hijas del campo and El moto by Joaquín García Monge
Joaquín García Monge
Joaquín García Monge is considered one of Costa Rica's most important writers. He was born in Desamparados, Costa Rica in 1881 and was educated in both Costa Rica and Chile, where he fell under the influence of the leading literary currents of his time...
, which harshly criticize the old rural society and the oligarchy of village chiefs, and El árbol enfermo y La caída del águila by Carlos Gagini, which warn against the danger of foreign influence.
Avant-garde movement
In the 1930s and 1940s, a new generation of writers, especially poets, set a new course for literature. Such is the case of poets Isaac Felipe AzofeifaIsaac Felipe Azofeifa
Isaac Felipe Azofeifa was a Costa Rican poet, politician and educator.Azofeifa is considered one of the most important Costa Rican poets of the twentieth century.-Biography:...
and Eunice Odio. The Costa Rican avant garde movement has generally been disregarded in the study of Latin American literature, though admittedly the Costa Rican movement was smaller and less influential internationally than that of other countries. Other writers of this movement included Max Jiménez
Max Jiménez
Max Jiménez, one of Costa Rica's important early writers, was born in San José, Costa Rica in 1900. His literary works include novels, short stories, essays and poetry, but he is best known for his novel El Jaul , which tells a series of events in an agricultural community in Costa Rica, though the...
, José Marín Cañas
José Marín Cañas
José Marín Cañas was born in San José, Costa Rica in 1904. His parents were Spanish, and he was educated in both Costa Rica and Spain. He worked in various occupations, most importantly journalism, which included his doing radio broadcasts of football matches. His literary career began in 1928, at...
, and Francisco Amighett. This literary movement coincided with avant-gardism in the visual arts, developed by artists like Francisco Zúñiga
Francisco Zúñiga
thumbJosé Jesús Francisco Zúñiga Chavarría was a Costa Rican and Mexican artist, known both for his painting and his sculpture...
, Amighetti himself, Juan Manuel Sánchez
Juan Manuel Sánchez
Juan Manuel Sánchez de Castro is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the mid 1990s. He won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold , a silver , and a bronze .Sánchez also competed in four Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of...
, and Juan Rafael Chacón.
'40s generation
The '40s generation was marked by realism; their works addressed issues of land, country, and land tenure. These writers included Joaquín GutiérrezJoaquín Gutiérrez
Joaquín Gutiérrez is an emblematic figure of Costa Rican literature, being one of the most internationally known of its authors. He was a member of the Academia Costarricense de la Lengua, and won the Premio Nacional de Cultura, the top literary award in his country...
(Puerto Limón, Muramonos Federico, Te accordás hermano), Carlos Luis Fallas
Carlos Luis Fallas
Carlos Luis Fallas Sibaja , also known as Calufa , was a Costa Rican author and political activist....
(Mamita Yunai), León Pacheco (Los pantanos del infierno), and José Marín Cañas
José Marín Cañas
José Marín Cañas was born in San José, Costa Rica in 1904. His parents were Spanish, and he was educated in both Costa Rica and Spain. He worked in various occupations, most importantly journalism, which included his doing radio broadcasts of football matches. His literary career began in 1928, at...
(El infierno verde).
Circle of Costa Rican poets
The circle of Costa Rican poets (círculo de poetas costarricenses) is a group of poets founded by Jorge DebravoJorge Debravo
Jorge Debravo was a prominent poet from Costa Rica.Debravo was born in Guayabo, on the slopes of the Turrialba Volcano in Costa Rica. He was the oldest of five children where he spent his early years helping his father, Joaquín Bravo Ramírez, manage a small milpa...
and Laureano Albán
Laureano Albán
Laureano Albán Rivas is a Costa Rican writer. A native of Turrialba, he was a recipient of the Magón National Prize for Culture in 2006.-References:...
in the early 1960s. This group of poets published the Manifiesto trascendentalista (1977), signed by Laureano Albán, Julieta Dobles, Carlos Francisco Monge, and Ronald Bonilla. Carlos Francisco Monge wrote the essay "Un manifiesto veinte años después" on the same topic in 1997; it is included in his book '
'70s generation
The '70s generation is a group of novelists that have criticized the exhaustion of the political project carried out after the founding of the Second Rpublic after the end of the civil war of 1948. It includes authors such as Carmen NaranjoCarmen Naranjo
Carmen Naranjo Coto , is a Costa Rican novelist, poet and essayist.She was born in Cartago, the capital city of the Cartago Province. She received her primary education there at the Escuela República de Perú and her secondary at the Colegio Superior de Señoritas...
, Gerardo César Hurtado, Quince Duncan
Quince Duncan
Quince Duncan was born in 1940 in San José, Costa Rica. He is regarded as Costa Rica's first Afro-Caribbean writer in the Spanish language. His works typically concern the Afro-caribbean population living on Costa Rica's Caribbean coast, particularly around the city of Puerto Limón...
, and Alfonso Chase
Alfonso Chase
Alfonso Chase is a contemporary Costa Rican author. He was educated in Costa Rica, Mexico, Venezuela and the United States, and he began his career in poetry in 1965...
.
Late 20th and early 21st century
Writers born before 1965 who have published works after 1990 include Jorge ArroyoJorge Arroyo
Jorge Eduardo Arroyo-Pérez Costa Rican writer, playwright, opinion columnist, essayist, poet and theatre director. The only author to receive four times the National Award in Theatre , the most important recognition given to dramatists in Costa Rica...
, Rodolfo Arias Formoso, Adriano Corrales Arias, Anacristina Rossi, Francisco Rodríguez Barrientos
Francisco Rodríguez Barrientos
Francisco Rodríguez Barrientos is a Costa Rican writer and sociologist.-Early life and education:Francisco Rodríguez Barrientos was born in 1956. He grew in San Carlos, a rural county in the northern plains of Costa Rica. He holds a doctorate degree from the University of Ciego de Avila, Cuba, and...
, Osvaldo Sauma, Guillermo Fernández Álvarez, Rodrigo Soto
Rodrigo Soto
Rodrigo Soto is a Chilean footballer currently playing for San Marcos de Arica of the Primera B Chilena....
, Carlos Cortés, Jorge Arturo, Vernor Muñoz, Tatiana Lobo
Tatiana Lobo
Tatiana Lobo is a Costa Rican author.Lobo was born in Puerto Montt, Chile, but has resided in Costa Rica since 1963, and is generally considered a Costa Rican writer. Her published works have crossed over several genres, including plays, short stories and novels...
, Uriel Quesada, Ana Istarú, José Maria Zonta, Hugo Rivas (fallecido), Wilbert Bogantes, José Ricardo Chaves, Dorelia Barahona, Fernando Contreras Castro
Fernando Contreras Castro
Fernando Contreras Castro, is a Costa Rican writer who was born in the province of Alajuela, on January 4, 1963. He is an author of new classics in the national literature...
, Carlos Morales
Carlos Morales
Carlos Adrián Morales Higuera is a Mexican soccer player. He currently plays for Santos Laguna in the Mexican First Division...
, and Alexánder Obando.
Poets born after 1965 who have published after 1990 include Juan Antillón, Mauricio Molina Delgado, David Maradiaga, Luis Chaves
Luis Chaves
Luis Chaves , is a Costa Rican poet, considered one of the leading figures in contemporary Costa Rican poetry.-Life and career:After studying Agronomy at the University of Costa Rica, Chaves began to work as a free-lance writer. His first collection of poems, El Anónimo, was published by Editorial...
, Melvyn Aguilar, María Montero, Esteban Ureña, Jeanette Amit, Julio Acuña (fallecido), Alfredo Trejos, Joan Bernal, Gustavo Solórzano Alfaro, Mauricio Vargas Ortega, Alejandra Castro, Patrick Cotter, Felipe Granados
Felipe Granados
Felipe Granados , was a poet from Costa Rica. He published only one book: Soundtrack . He was also a columnist of the Soho magazine. - References :...
(RIP), Paula Piedra, Laura Fuentes, Camila Schumaher, David Cruz, Vivian Cruz, Alejandro Cordero, William Eduarte, and Luis Chacón. Fiction writers born after 1965 who have published after 1990 include Heriberto Rodríguez, Mauricio Ventanas, Catalina Murillo, Manuel Marín
Manuel Marín
Manuel Marín González is a Spanish politician, former President of the Congress of Deputies of Spain. He was a long-time member of the European Commission, and President during the interim Marin Commission following the Resignation of the Santer Commission, of which he was a member.-Early life and...
, Jessica Clark Cohen, Juan Murillo
Juan Murillo
Juan Engelberth Murillo Ortíz is a male professional road racing cyclist from Venezuela.-Career:20022004Juan Engelberth Murillo Ortíz is a male professional road racing cyclist from Venezuela.-Career:...
, Laura Quijano, Alí Víquez Jiménez, Marco Castro
Marco Castro
Marco Castro , in Lima, Peru is an American film director, actor and photographer.-Biography:Born in Lima Peru of a Japanese Spanish descent. He started his career at a very young age studying theatre and performing arts since he was 8 years old...
, Mario León, Guillermo Barquero, Antonio Chamu, Jesús Vargas Garita, Gustavo Adolfo Chaves, Carlos Alvarado, Albán Mora, David Eduarte, and Diego Montero.
Major writers
Major Costa Rican writers include Roberto Brenes MesénRoberto Brenes Mesén
Roberto Brenes Mesén was a Costa Rican politician, writer, educator, and journalist....
, with his poems in En el silencio; Carmen Lyra
Carmen Lyra
Carmen Lyra was the pseudonym of the first prominent female Costa Rican writer, born Maria Isabel Carvajal...
, writer of Cuentos de mi Tía Panchita; Carlos Luis Fallas Sibaja, with his novels Mamita Yunai, Gentes y gentecillas, Mi madrina and Marcos Ramírez; Fabián Dobles
Fabián Dobles
Fabián Dobles Rodríguez was a Costa Rican writer and left-wing political activist. A novelist, essayist, and short story writer, Rodríguez achieved international renown as an author dealing with social protest the struggles of the poor.-Biography:Dobles was born in San Antonio de Belén, but his...
, with the novel El sitio de las abras; Joaquín Gutiérrez
Joaquín Gutiérrez
Joaquín Gutiérrez is an emblematic figure of Costa Rican literature, being one of the most internationally known of its authors. He was a member of the Academia Costarricense de la Lengua, and won the Premio Nacional de Cultura, the top literary award in his country...
, with novels including Puerto Limón, Muramonos, Federico and Te accordás, hermano; Yolanda Oreamuno
Yolanda Oreamuno
Yolando Oreamuno Unger was a Costa Rican writer, who was born on April 8, 1916 in San José, Costa Rica and died in México City on July 8, 1956, aged forty. Her most renowned novel is La Ruta de su Evasión .- Early life :...
with her novel La ruta de su evasión; Carlos Salazar Herrera
Carlos Salazar Herrera
Carlos Salazar Herrera was born in San José, Costa Rica, where he attended primary and secondary school. At the age of 14, he received his first award for an essay entitled "El café"...
, with Cuentos de angustias y paisajes; Eunice Odio, with his poetry collection Tránsito de fuego; Isaac Felipe Azofeifa
Isaac Felipe Azofeifa
Isaac Felipe Azofeifa was a Costa Rican poet, politician and educator.Azofeifa is considered one of the most important Costa Rican poets of the twentieth century.-Biography:...
, with Cima del gozo; Julián Marchena
Julián Marchena
Julián Marchena Valleriestra San José, March 14, 1897 - San José, May 5, 1985) was a Costa Rican poet. He was a recipient of the Magón National Prize for Culture in 1963.-References:...
with his only poetry collection Alas en fuga; José León Sánchez
José León Sánchez
José León Sánchez Alvarado is a Costa Rican novelist born in 1930, best known for his works Isla de los hombres solos and Tenochtitlan. He was born in Cucaracho del Río Cuarto, Puntarenas. A movie adaptation of his novel, Isla de los hombres solos was made and released by a Mexican...
, with the novel La isla de los hombres solos, Ana Antillón with poetry collections including Antro Fuego, Jorge Debravo
Jorge Debravo
Jorge Debravo was a prominent poet from Costa Rica.Debravo was born in Guayabo, on the slopes of the Turrialba Volcano in Costa Rica. He was the oldest of five children where he spent his early years helping his father, Joaquín Bravo Ramírez, manage a small milpa...
with poetry collections including Nosotros los hombres; and Laureano Albán
Laureano Albán
Laureano Albán Rivas is a Costa Rican writer. A native of Turrialba, he was a recipient of the Magón National Prize for Culture in 2006.-References:...
with books including Herencia del otoño. Authors whose works began to appear in the 1970s and 1980s include Rodolfo Arias, Jorge Arroyo
Jorge Arroyo
Jorge Eduardo Arroyo-Pérez Costa Rican writer, playwright, opinion columnist, essayist, poet and theatre director. The only author to receive four times the National Award in Theatre , the most important recognition given to dramatists in Costa Rica...
, Carlos Cortés, Ana Istarú, Mía Gallegos, Carlos Francisco Monge, Rodrigo Quirós (1944–1997), Anacristina Rossi, Rodrigo Soto
Rodrigo Soto
Rodrigo Soto is a Chilean footballer currently playing for San Marcos de Arica of the Primera B Chilena....
, Osvaldo Sauma, Milton Zárate and Juan Antillón with his multiawarded poetry collection Isla and other books.
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