Joaquín García Monge

Joaquín García Monge was born on 20 January 1881 in Desamparados, into a modest family. He took his baccalaureate in 1899 and from 1901 to 1904 studied at the pedagogical institute of the University of Chile, in Santiago. A teacher at the Liceo de Costa Rica, he was dismissed by the government of Ascensión Esquivel, then taught at the teacher training college in Heredia and headed it. He directed the National Library from 1920 to 1936 and from 1919 to 1959 published a journal read throughout the continent. Declared Benemérito de la Patria in 1958, he died in San José on 31 October of the same year.

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• NovelEl MotoJoaquín García Monge · 1900not translated into EnglishLiterature