Carlos Francisco Monge - Poet and Essayist (PUC, 2008)
Costa Rican poet, essayist, and professor; born in 1951, Carlos
Francisco Monge first majored in Linguistics and Literature at the
University of Costa Rica, and later completed his doctorate in
Spanish Literature at the University of Madrid, Spain. He has been a
professor at the National University of Costa Rica for over 30
years, where he has taught courses of Spanish and Latin American
literature. He has published many articles and studies on his
specialty in journals in Costa Rica and other countries (Spain,
United States, Canada and South America), and is a Corresponding
Fellow from Costa Rica of the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language.
His literary activity, as a poet, began in the early 1970s. He was a
member of a literary group which published Manifiesto
trascendentalista (1977), with Laureano Albán, Julieta Dobles and
Ronald Bonilla. |
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