Laureano Albán

Laureano Albán Rivas was born on 9 January 1942 in Turrialba. At the school of Santa Cruz de Turrialba, he met Jorge Debravo, with whom he founded a circle of poets in the town, then, in the sixties, the Circle of Costa Rican Poets. Trained in philology and linguistics at the University of Costa Rica, he undertook doctoral studies in New York. A diplomat in Madrid, then ambassador to the United Nations, to Israel and to UNESCO, he taught creative writing at the university from 1990 to 1998. Winner of the Magón Prize in 2006, he died on 5 June 2022.

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• PoetryAutumn's LegacyHerencia del otoñoLaureano Albán · 1980Literature