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Luis Chaves

Not to be confused with Louis Chaves.

Luis Chaves (born in 1969), is a Costa Rican poet, considered one of the leading figures in contemporary Costa Rican poetry.[1]

Luis Chaves
Born1969
San José, Costa Rica
OccupationPoet, prose writer, translator

Life and career

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After studying Agronomy at the University of Costa Rica, Chaves began to work as a free-lance writer. His first collection of poems, El Anónimo, was published by Editorial Guayacán in 1996. In 1997 his second poetry collection, Los animales que imaginamos, won the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Poetry Award.[2] Historias Polaroid was published in 2001 to critical and public acclaim, and it was shortlisted for the poetry prize at the International Poetry Festival of Medellín, Colombia, that year.[3] During a sojourn in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Chaves published his fourth book, Chan Marshall, which marked his rise as one of Latin America's leading young poetic voices.[4] Chan Marshall won the III Fray Luis de León Poetry Prize and was published in Spain by the influential poetry publisher Visor.[5] Chaves's latest book of poetry is Asfalto. A Road Poem, in which the author experiments more openly with prose poems and internal narrative. Some of his poems have been translated into Italian by Raffaella Raganella,[6][7] and those translations received an international prize from the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Ascoli Piceno.[citation needed] In 2009, Ediciones Perro Azul published an expanded, commemorative edition of Historias Polaroid and Asfalto in a single volume. In 2010 Chaves published two collections of prose: El mundial 2010. Apuntes, published by Germinal,[8] which contains chronicles of every game of the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa; and 300 Páginas. Prosas, published by Lanzallamas,[9] which includes Chaves's press articles written for different magazines and newspapers in Costa Rica and abroad between 2002 and 2010.[10] Chaves was editor of Los Amigos de lo Ajeno, a poetry magazine distributed mainly in Costa Rica and Argentina.

Works

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Poetry

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  • El Anónimo / The Anonymous (1996)
  • Los animales que imaginamos / The Animals We Imagine (1997)
  • Historias Polaroid / Polaroid Stories (2001)
  • Cumbia / Cumbia (2003)
  • Chan Marshall / Chan Marshall (2005)
  • Asfalto. Un Road Poem / Asphalt. A Road Poem (2006)

Prose

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  • El mundial 2010. Apuntes / The 2010 World Cup. Notes (2010)
  • 300 páginas / 300 Pages (2010)

Anthologies

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  • Antología de la nueva poesía costarricense / Anthology of the New Costa Rican Poetry (2001)

References

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  1. ^ "Los poetas no buscan llenar un estadio para leer unos versos". 19 April 2009.
  2. ^ "Noticias de deportes en Costa Rica".
  3. ^ "Noticias de deportes en Costa Rica".
  4. ^ "El costarricense Luis Chaves gana el Premio 'Fray Luis de León'". 2004-11-18. Archived from the original on 2012-03-08.
  5. ^ "Noticias de deportes en Costa Rica".
  6. ^ "Smerillo". Archived from the original on 2009-10-20. Retrieved 2009-10-14.
  7. ^ "Noticias de deportes en Costa Rica".
  8. ^ "Editorial germinal s.a." Archived from the original on 2012-06-29. Retrieved 2011-02-07.
  9. ^ "Ediciones Lanzallamas - ¿Quiénes somos?". Archived from the original on 2011-07-10. Retrieved 2011-02-07.
  10. ^ "Luis Chaves resume sus andanzas por la vida en 300 páginas - ALDEA GLOBAL:: - nacioncom". www.nacion.com. Archived from the original on 2010-12-20.
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Book reviews

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  • Chan Marshall, reviewed by Ana Wajszczuk [1]
  • Asfalto. Un Road Poem, reviewed by Clara Astiasarán [2]
  • 300 Páginas. Prosas reviewed by María Montero [3]

Interviews

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  • Interview with Luis Chaves [4] (El Día de Córdoba)
  • Entrevista: Luis Chaves, (La Nación, Costa Rica) [5]

Other

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