Carlos Francisco Changmarín

Carlos Francisco Chang Marín, known as Changmarín, was born on 26 February 1922 in Santiago de Veraguas, to a family of Chinese descent on his father's side and a peasant mother, Faustina Marín. A schoolteacher trained at the teachers' college in Santiago, he was also a painter, musician and folklorist. A member of the Partido del Pueblo, the communist party, from 1950 and a peasant leader, he spent more than four years in prison and was exiled to Chile after the coup d'état of 1968. He wrote verse, stories, décimas and children's books, and received the Rogelio Sinán decoration in 2006. He died in Panama in December 2012.

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• Short storiesFaragual y otros cuentosCarlos Francisco Changmarín · 1978not translated into EnglishLiterature