Carvajal, María Isabel (1888–1949)
Carvajal, María Isabel (1888–1949)
Costa Rican novelist and journalist. Name variations: Maria Isabel Carvajal; (pseudonym) Carmen Lyra. Born María Isabel Carvajal Quesada, Jan 15, 1888, in San José, Costa Rica; died 1949 in Mexico City, Mexico.
Began career as a teacher; spent last years of her life as a Marxist journalist; went into exile in Mexico after the revolution (1948); writings include Las fantasías de Juan Silvestre (1918), En una silla de rodas (In a Wheelchair, 1918) and Los cuentos de mi T ía Panchita (The Stories of My Aunt Panchita, 1920).
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