Hernán Elizondo Arce

Hernán Elizondo Arce was born on 28 October 1921 in Santo Domingo de Heredia, although the civil register gives his birth as 1920. He grew up in Tilarán, in Guanacaste, where he became a rural schoolteacher and then municipal secretary; he later worked at the Banco Nacional while attending evening classes, before being appointed deputy head of the Esparza secondary school in 1967. A poet, he published his first collection in 1945 and won three gold medals at the 1950 International Floral Games. He died in Esparza in March 2012.

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• NovelMemorias de un pobre diabloHernán Elizondo Arce · 1964not translated into EnglishLiterature