León Pacheco Solano

León Pacheco Solano was born in Tres Ríos, in the province of Cartago, on 9 May 1898 according to most accounts, in 1900 according to the National Library. He published his first essays before leaving in 1919 for Paris, where he studied at the Sorbonne, took the first name León, the French being ill at ease with Napoleón, and associated with Miguel Ángel Asturias, Arturo Uslar Pietri and Alfonso Reyes. A correspondent for newspapers in America and Spain, he returned in 1932 and taught French, literature and aesthetics, up to university level. Winner of the Magón Prize in 1972, he died in San José on 26 July 1980.

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• NovelLos pantanos del infiernoLeón Pacheco Solano · 1974not translated into EnglishLiterature