Alicia Miranda Hevia

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Alicia Miranda Hevia (born 1952) is a Costa Rican writer. She is known for her literary work, as well as for founding the small press Editorial Montemira. [1] [2]

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Early life and education

Born Gladys Alicia Eugenia del Rosario in San José, Costa Rica, in 1952, she was the oldest of five siblings. Her father, who was Costa Rican, and her mother, who was Chilean, were both doctors. [3] [4]

Miranda attended primary school at the Methodist School in San José, then secondary school at the Saint Clare school, where she graduated in 1969. The following year, she left for the United States to begin pre-medical studies at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. She returned to Costa Rica a year later, however, and obtained degrees in French and in Spanish philology from the University of Costa Rica in 1976. [1] [5] Immediately thereafter, she traveled to Paris, where she received a doctorate in Latin American literature from the University of Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 in 1981. [6] [7]

During her time at the University of Costa Rica, she participated in student political movements through the youth group known as FAENA, which would later evolve into the Frente Popular Costarricense, a Maoist political party. [3] [8]

Career

Miranda began teaching while still a student at the University of Costa Rica, and she returned to teach grammar at the school after coming back to the country in 1981. She continued to work there until 1985.

She also began writing during her time as a student, including research articles in specialized publications and reported pieces for Diaro de las Palmas in the Canary Islands and Vanguardia Dominical in Bucaramanga, Colombia. On her return to Costa Rica, she wrote for the newspaper La República in San José. [1] [9]

Her first novel, San Isidro, was published in 1980. She published her subsequent novel La huella de abril in 1989. She has also published nonfiction, including Novela, discurso y sociedad in 1985 and Las sílabas azules in 1991. [5]

In 2005, Miranda founded a small press, Editorial Montemira. Miranda is a longtime friend and admirer of the Indian poet Jayanta Mahapatra, and some of his works have been published in Spanish translation by the publishing house. [10]

Miranda has also worked as a translator, including translating such English classics as Romeo and Juliet and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland into Spanish, [11] as well as a translation of a history of Situationist International from French. [12]

Personal life

Miranda met her first husband, the architecture student Manuel Antonio Argüello Rodríguez, during her time as an activist with the FAENA student organization. The couple married in 1976. After their divorce, Miranda remarried, wedding her primary school classmate Eduardo Montes de Oca. The couple had three sons: Sergio, Mauricio, and Bernardo. [1] [4]

Selected works

Novels

Nonfiction

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References

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  2. ↑ Martínez, Elvis (2015-09-20). "Entrevista: Alicia Miranda presenta las novedades de Editorial Montemira en Feria del Libro Costa Rica 2015". El Periódicocr.com (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved 2020-09-23.
  3. 1 2 "Alicia Miranda". Editorial Costa Rica. Archived from the original on 2020-11-30. Retrieved 2020-09-23.
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  5. 1 2 "Miranda Hevia, Alicia (1952-VVVV)". MCN Biografias.
  6. ↑ Miranda, Alicia (1985). Novela, discurso y sociedad: Diario de una multitud. Colección Convivio (in Spanish) (1a ed.). Desamparados, Costa Rica: Mesén Editores.
  7. ↑ Miranda H, Alicia (2012-08-22). "Torquemada en el Infierno". Libros y Letras | Literatura y Cultura en Colombia y América Latina (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-09-23.
  8. ↑ Dobles, Ignacio. (2005). Militantes : la vivencia de lo político en la segunda ola del marxismo en Costa Rica. Leandro Zúniga, Vilma. (1. ed.). San José [Costa Rica]: Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica. ISBN   9968-936-12-X. OCLC   85017446.
  9. ↑ Meneses Fernández, María Dolores (May 2004). "Aspectos de periodismo especializado: ciencia, cultura y canariedad en la prensa insular canaria. Años 1975 y 1982" (PDF). Universidad de la Laguna. ISBN   84-688-4992-8.
  10. ↑ "A tribute to Jayanta Mahapatra" (PDF). Editorial Montemira. February 2012.
  11. ↑ Ramón Rojas, Juan (2013-05-19). "Novela: A. Miranda evoca decadencia de clase cafetalera". Informa-Tico (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-09-24.
  12. ↑ Martos, Jean-Francois. Historia de la Internacional Situacionista. ISBN   978-9930-9407-5-4.
  13. ↑ "Catálogo 2022" (PDF). Editorial Montemira (in Spanish). 2022. Retrieved 2024-04-15.
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