José Marín Cañas

José Marín Cañas was born in 1904 in San José, to Spanish parents. He left for Spain while still young and began engineering studies at the artillery academy in Segovia, which he did not complete. Back in Costa Rica, he became a journalist, commented on football on the radio and edited the daily La Hora. From 1929 he published novels, stories and plays. A member of the Costa Rican Academy of the Language, he received a Spanish decoration. He died in 1980.

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• NovelPedro ArnáezJosé Marín Cañas · 1942not translated into EnglishLiterature