Quince Duncan

Quince Duncan was born on 5 December 1940 in San José. He wrote from adolescence and at fourteen won a national school competition with an essay on a tree. A professor at the National University, he is regarded as the first Afro-Caribbean writer of the country to write in Spanish, and his novels and short stories alike received the national prize for literature and the Editorial Costa Rica prize. The University of Costa Rica made him an honorary doctor in 2018, in tribute to his literary and academic work and to his action for human rights.

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• NovelLos cuatro espejosQuince Duncan · 1973not translated into EnglishLiterature