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Oscar Núñez Oliva
Oscar Núñez Olivas (born 21 May 1955 in San José) is a Costa Rican novelist who has published seven Spanish-language novels. Career His first novel, ''El Teatro Circular'' (1996), won the Latin America Novel Prize of Editorial Universitaria Centroamericana (EDUCA) and the national novel prize, the Aquileo J. Echeverría Award, granted by the Costa Rican Ministry of Culture, in 1997. In 2000, Guaymuras Edit. (Honduras) published his second novel, ''Los Gallos de San Esteban'', a real story developed at the rural village of San Esteban in Olancho, Honduras . ''En clave de luna'' (Uruk Editores, 2004) tells events based on a real story about a serial killer in Costa Rica. An English-language version, entitled ''Cadence of the Moon'', was published in the United Kingdom by Aflame Books in 2007. ''La Guerra Prometida'' (Alfaguara, 2014) is a story which refers to the Costa Rica national struggle against the American filibuster William Walker William Walker may refer to: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San José, Costa Rica
San José (; meaning "Saint Joseph") is the capital city, capital and largest city of Costa Rica, and the capital of San José Province. It is in the center of the country, in the mid-west of the Costa Rican Central Valley, 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 is simultaneously one of Costa Rica's Cantons of Costa Rica, cantons, with its municipal land area covering 44.62 square kilometers (17.23 square miles) and having within it an estimated population of people in 2022. Together with several other cantons of the central valley, including Alajuela, Heredia, Costa Rica, Heredia and Cartago, Costa Rica, Cartago, it forms the country's Greater Metropolitan Area (Costa Rica), Greater Metropolitan Area, with an estimated population of over 2 million in 2017. The city is named in honor of Saint Joseph, Joseph of Nazareth. Founded in 17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
