Joaquín Gutiérrez

Joaquín Gutiérrez Mangel was born on 30 March 1918 in Puerto Limón, a port on the country's Atlantic coast. He settled in Chile in 1939 and lived there for twenty-five years, working in publishing, the left-wing press and news agencies; he later ran the state publishing house Quimantú. A war correspondent in Vietnam, he translated four tragedies by William Shakespeare into Spanish. Winner of the Magón Prize and honorary doctor of the University of Costa Rica in 1992, he died in San José on 16 October 2000.

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• NovelCocoríJoaquín Gutiérrez · 1947not translated into EnglishLiterature