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Samuel Rovinski | |
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| Born | Samuel Rovinski Gruszko 1931 San José, Costa Rica |
| Died | 31 August 2013 (aged 81–82) Costa Rica |
| Occupation | Author and novelist |
| Genre | Short story and essay |
Samuel Rovinski Cruszco was a Costa Rican author of plays, novels, short stories and essays.
Samuel Rovinski attended primary and secondary schools in San José and obtained a degree in civil engineering from the National Autonomous University of Mexico . Rovinski founded and managed a construction company in Costa Rica. He was also a member of the Costa Rican intellectual community. [1]
Rovinski has authored many plays during his time.
La Atlántida is a three-act play written in 1960 and recipient of honorary mention at the Juegos Florales Centroamericanos (Literary Competition of Central America) held in Guatemala in 1960. Los agitadores (The Agitators), written in 1964, earned the playwright honorary mention. Gobierno de alcoba (Bedroom Government) is a play in which Rovinski portrays how rightist and leftist dictators manipulate the people of their countries. Gobierno de alcoba was staged in 1967 at the Teatro Nacional. The play was directed by Andrés Saénz and Daniel Gallegos. A second staging of this play was presented by the grupo Israelita de Teatro (GIT). El laberinto (The Labyrinth) (1967) was staged at the Teatro Nacional in 1969 under the direction of Esteban polls, and Las fisgonas de Paso Ancho (The Snoopers of Paso Ancho) (1971) was staged that same year at the Escuela República de Haití in Paso Ancho by the Teatro Estudiantil Universitario (Student's University Theater). Rovinski's play 'El Martirio del Pastor' ('The Pastor's Martyrdom') was produced in 1988 at the Public Theater in New York.
He served for several years as CEO of the National Theatre of Costa Rica and a member of the Costa Rican Language Academy. In 2007, he published the Genesis (Theater) under the seal of the Editorial Costa Rica. After establishing that, he later died on 31 August 2013. [2]
His play Las Figonas de Paso Ancho was adapted into a TV series and a celebrity comics series, drawn by Hugo Díaz Jiménez. [3]
San José is the capital and largest city of Costa Rica, and the capital of the province of the same name. It is in the center of the country, in the mid-west of the Central Valley, within San José Canton. San José is Costa Rica's seat of national government, focal point of political and economic activity, and major transportation hub. San José Canton's population was 288,054 in 2011, and San José's municipal land area is 44.2 square kilometers, with an estimated 333,980 residents in 2015. Together with several other cantons of the central valley, including Alajuela, Heredia and Cartago, it forms the country's Greater Metropolitan Area, with an estimated population of over 2 million in 2017. The city is named in honor of Joseph of Nazareth.
The "Himno Nacional de Costa Rica", also known by its incipit, "Noble patria, tu hermosa bandera", is the national anthem of Costa Rica. Its music was composed by Manuel María Gutiérrez Flores, who dedicated the score to French adventurer Gabriel-Pierre Lafond de Lurcy, and adopted in 1852. The music was created to receive delegates from the United Kingdom and the United States that year for the Webster-Crampton Treaty. It was the first Central American national anthem.
The stone spheres of Costa Rica are an assortment of over 300 petrospheres in Costa Rica, on the Diquís Delta and on Isla del Caño. Locally, they are also known as bolas de piedra. The spheres are commonly attributed to the extinct Diquís culture, and they are sometimes referred to as the Diquís Spheres. They are the best-known stone sculptures of the Isthmo-Colombian area.
The Melico Salazar Theatre is located in San José, Costa Rica. It maintains a full schedule of concerts, recitals, and plays.
Joaquín Gutiérrez Mangel was a Costa Rican writer who won multiple awards, and whose children's book Cocorí has been translated into ten languages. In addition to writing children's books, Gutiérrez was a chess champion, war correspondent, journalist, story-teller, translator, professor, and communist activist.
Carmen Lyra was the pseudonym of the first prominent female Costa Rican writer, born María Isabel Carvajal Quesada. She was a teacher and founder of the country's first Montessori school. She was a co-founder of the Communist Party of Costa Rica, as well as one of the country's first female worker's unions. She was one of the earliest writers to criticize the dominance of the fruit companies. She won many prizes.
The 1963 CONCACAF Championship was the first edition of the CONCACAF Championship, the football championship of North America, Central America and the Caribbean (CONCACAF). The tournament was held between 23 March to 7 April. Nine teams participated in the inaugural event.
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Jorge Eduardo Arroyo-Pérez is a Costa Rican writer, playwright, opinion columnist, essayist, poet and theater director. He is currently Costa Rica's ambassador to UNESCO.
Alberto Cañas Escalante was a politician, writer, intellectual, public servant, and journalist from San José, Costa Rica. He is known as one of the most important figures in the cultural, political, and social life of Costa Rica during the latter half of the twentieth century. The National Library System of Costa Rica credits Cañas with more than 4,773 publications as of 2005.
Laura Chinchilla Miranda is a Costa Rican political scientist and politician who served as President of Costa Rica from 2010 to 2014. She was one of Óscar Arias Sánchez's two Vice-Presidents and his administration's Minister of Justice. She was the governing PLN candidate for president in the 2010 general election, where she won with 46.76% of the vote on 7 February. She was the eighth woman president of a Latin American country and the first woman to become President of Costa Rica. She was sworn in as President of Costa Rica on 8 May 2010.
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San Pedro, is one of the six districts of the Santa Bárbara canton, in the Heredia province of Costa Rica. It is located 2.5 kilometers (1.6 mi) west of Santa Bárbara and is officially a part of the province of Heredia. The elevation is approximately 1,080 meters (3,540 ft) above sea-level.
Benjamín Gutiérrez is a celebrated composer in Costa Rica. He is a conductor, composer, and pianist. Gutiérrez began by studying music with his grandmother, Rosa Jiménez Nuñez, daughter of the composer Pilar Jiménez.” Gutiérrez then studied music in Guatemala City, Boston, Ann Arbor, Aspen, and Buenos Aires. The following were several of his teachers: Ross Lee Finney, Darius Milhaud, and Alberto Ginastera. Gutiérrez has written music for piano, orchestra, violin, viola, clarinet, flute, saxophone, trombone quartet, bassoon quartet, marimba, opera, and several other instruments.
Hernán Jiménez is a Costa Rican film director, screenwriter, actor and stand-up comedian.
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Sara Casal de Quirós was a Costa Rican teacher, writer and community worker. She was a pioneer of the women's rights movement in Costa Rica and wrote the first book defending women's rights in the country.
Thelma Darkings Bucknam is a Costa Rican actress and television presenter. She is known for hosting the Costa Rican talk show programs Conectados and previously Entre nos. Her film credits include Noi siamo angeli (1997), Caribe (2004), and El último comandante (2010).
The Conservatorio de Castella is an arts institute located on the Pan American Highway, in Heredia, Costa Rica. In 2016 the school was honored by a Declaratoria de Benemérito de la Patria,, which recognized the historical distinction of the school, and also provided for campuses of the school to be established in each of the seven provinces in Costa Rica.
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