Carmen Naranjo

Carmen Naranjo was born on 30 January 1928 in Cartago. She took a degree in philology at the University of Costa Rica and continued her studies in Mexico, then at the writing workshop of the University of Iowa. Employed from a young age at the social security fund, of which she became a senior manager, she was ambassador to Israel, then from 1974 to 1976 Minister of Culture, the first woman in that post, and afterwards headed the Central American university press. She received the Magón Prize in 1986 and died on 4 January 2012.

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• NovelLos perros no ladraronCarmen Naranjo · 1966not translated into EnglishLiterature