Jorge Debravo

Jorge Delio Bravo Brenes, who wrote as Jorge Debravo, was born on 31 January 1938 near Turrialba, into a family of poor peasants, and taught himself to read and write. Having joined the Costa Rican social security fund at seventeen, where he became an inspector, he studied journalism by correspondence and in 1959 founded the circle of Turrialba poets. He died on 4 August 1967 in San José, knocked off his motorcycle by a drunk driver. His birthday has become the national day of poetry.

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• PoetryNosotros los hombresJorge Debravo · 1966not translated into EnglishLiterature