Tatiana Lobo Wiehoff (13 November 1939 – 22 February 2023) was a Chilean-born Costa Rican author. Lobo was born in

Puerto Montt Puerto Montt (Mapuche: Meli Pulli) is a port city and commune in southern Chile, located at the northern end of the Reloncaví Sound in the Llanquihue Province, Los Lagos Region, 1,055 km to the south of the capital, Santiago. The commune ...

, Chile on 13 November 1939. She moved to Costa Rica in 1963 and remained there for the rest of her life. Her published works have crossed over several genres, including novels,

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and articles. She has received several awards for her fiction, including the

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in 1995, Costa Rica's

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, and the Costa Rican ''Premio Academia Costarricense de la lengua''. Her works have been translated into French, German, and English. In her final years, Lobo secluded herself at her home in San Ramón, although she continued making social media posts about local and international politics. Her final postings, in which she criticized

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and the Nicaraguan government's decision to strip the citizenship of 222 dissidents, were made four days before her death. Lobo died on 22 February 2023, at the age of 83.Murió la escritora contundente y valiente Tatiana Lobo

Bibliography

*''Tiempo de claveles'' (short stories, 1989) *''El caballero del V Centenario'' (play, 1989) *''Asalto al paraíso'' (novel, 1992) (translated by Asa Zatz as ''Assault on Paradise'') *''Entre Dios y el Diablo, mujeres de la Colonia'' (short stories, 1993), *''Calypso'' (novel, 1996) *''El año del laberinto'' (novel, 2000) *''Parientes en venta: la esclavitud en la Colonia'' (history, 2010) *''Candelaria del Azar'' (novel, 2010) *''El Corazón del silencio'' (novel 2011) *''El Puente de Ismael'' (novel, 2014) *''Te deam laudeamus (te alabamos, diosa)'' (poetry)

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* 1939 births 2023 deaths Chilean emigrants to Costa Rica 20th-century Costa Rican women writers People from Puerto Montt Chilean women writers Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize winners {{CostaRica-writer-stub