Manuel González Zeledón (Magón)

Manuel González Zeledón, who signed as Magón, was born on 24 December 1864 in San José. He began at the newspaper La Patria, run by a cousin who was a poet, then founded the newspaper El País with other writers. He later left for the United States, where he lived for thirty years, taught Castilian and served his country as consul, before being appointed ambassador to Washington in 1932. Seriously ill, he returned to Costa Rica in May 1936 and died there on 29 May. The country's national culture prize bears his pseudonym.

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• NarrativeLa propiaManuel González Zeledón (Magón) · 1909not translated into EnglishLiterature