Alfonso Chase

Alfonso Chase Brenes was born on 19 October 1944 in Cartago, into a family of North American origin; his father, Luis J. Chase, was a poet and novelist. After the Liceo del Sur, in San José, he took courses at the University of Costa Rica and in Mexico without graduating, and was mostly self-taught. In 1970 he founded the publications department of the Ministry of Culture, then taught at the National University from 1974 and became a full professor there in 1989. A winner of the national prizes for poetry, novel and short story, he received the Magón Prize in 1999.

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• NovelLos juegos furtivosAlfonso Chase · 1968not translated into EnglishLiterature