Carlos Salazar Herrera

Carlos Salazar Herrera was born on 6 September 1906 in San José. He wrote from childhood and in 1928 won a second prize for a short story. He took up woodcut and sculpture in the early 1930s and in 1935 received a silver medal for sculpture at the Exhibition of Central American Art. A professor at the University of Costa Rica from 1942, he took over the direction of Radio Universidad in April 1950. He died on 24 July 1980.

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• Short storiesCosta Rican Short Stories of Anguish and LandscapesCuentos de angustias y paisajesCarlos Salazar Herrera · 1947Literature