Carmen Naranjo

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Carmen Naranjo Cato (born January 30, 1928), is a Costa Rican author. She has been awarded every literary prize available in Costa Rica.

She was born in Cartago, the capital city of the Cartago Province. She received her primary education there at the Escuela República de Perú and her secondary at the Colegio Superior de Señoritas. She received her licenciatura in Philology from the University of Costa Rica and pursued post-graduate studies at the Universidad Autónoma de México and the University of Iowa. In 1991 she was granted an honorary doctorate from the Universidad de Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.

Carmen Naranjo is a member of the Academia Costarricense de la Lengua (Costa Rican Academy of Language). Among her many governmental positions she has served as Minister of Culture and as Director of the Museo de Arte Costarricense.

[edit] Bibliography

• Cancion de la ternura, 1962
• Misa a oscuras, 1964
• Hacia tu isla, 1966
• Los perros no ladraron, 1966
• Memorias de un hombre palabra, 1968
• Diario de una multitud, 1974
• Cinco temas en busca de un pensador, 1977
• El caso 117.720, 1987
• En partes, 1994
• Más allá del Parismina, 2000
• En esta tierra redonda y plana, 2001
• Marina Jiménez de Bolandi: recordándola, 2002
• El Truco Florido,

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