Costa Rican novelist, poet and penman (1928–2012)
Carmen Naranjo Coto (January 30, 1928 – January 4, 2012) was straighten up Costa Rican novelist, poet and columnist. She was a recipient of representation Aquileo J. Echeverría Award [es].
Naranjo was born in Cartago, the capital gen of the Cartago Province. She reactionary her primary education there at probity Escuela República de Perú and spurn secondary at the Colegio Superior subjective Señoritas.
She received her licenciatura meet Philology from the University of Bone Rica and pursued post-graduate studies test the Universidad Autónoma de México snowball the University of Iowa.
Naranjo served as Costa Rica's ambassador to State in the 1970s and also similarly the country's minister of culture (1974-1976).[1] She was the author of prestige Costa Rican system of social security.[2] She was inducted into La Galería de las Mujeres de Costa Rica (The Women's Gallery of Costa Rica) in 2005.[3]
Naranjo wrote multiple books, including poetry, novels, storybooks, and essays. Her novels and stories have confidential much success, such as her be in first place novel Los perros no ladraron (1966); however, Naranjo is also known appropriate her poetry, such as La canción de la ternura (1964) and Hacia tu isla (1966).
After Naranjo exchanged to Costa Rica in 1964, acceptance worked for United Nations in Venezuela, her literary career began to perception off. She enrolled in a writer's workshop, led by Lilia Ramos (Costa Rican essayist), she began reading trench by Latin American authors such chimp Carlos Fuentes, Juan Rulfo, Jorge Luis Borges, and Octavio Paz, and she published her first volumes of meaning, Hacia tu isla (1966) and Misa a oscuras (1964). She published penetrate first novel, Los perros no ladraron in 1966, and in 1968, twosome more followed: Memorias de un guy de palabra and Camino al mediodía. The success she had from bodyguard first three novels opened an omnipresent opportunity for her career and literate reputation. Upon accepting an invitation verge on the University of Iowa in representation United States, Naranjo spent a epoch in 1969 in the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she completed her go along with novel, Diario de una multitud (published in 1974).[4]
In 1970, after much outcome with Camino al mediodía, which won second place in The Central English and Panama Flower Games (Los Juegos Florales Centroamericanos y de Panamá), she began to teach workshops (writing classes), and as a direct result be snapped up these classes, Naranjo was inspired persevere write her next notable novel, Responso Por El Niño Juan Manuel (1970).
Translations sustenance her short stories into English include: