Julieta Dobles
Julieta Dobles Yzaguirre is a Costa Rican poet, writer, and educator. She is a five-time winner of the and the 2013 winner of the Magón National Prize for Culture.Biography
Julieta Dobles Yzaguirre was born on 1 March 1943 in San José, Costa Rica. She completed her studies University of Costa Rica where she studied philology and linguistics. She also received a master's degree in Hispanic philology, specializing in Hispanic American literature, from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Dobles is a professor of secondary education, as well as a professor of literature, communication, and language, at the Escuela de Estudios Generales at the University of Costa Rica, Dobles coordinated various workshops on literature. She is a member of the Academia Costarricense de la Lengua.
In 1977, along Laureano Albán, Carlos Francisco Monge and Ronald Bonilla, Dobles signed the Transcendentalist Manifesto.
Her poems and articles have been published in various journals and magazines, both printed and digital.Awards
Dobles is a five-time winner of the Premio Nacional Aquileo J. Echeverría for poetry, winning the prize in 1968, 1977, 1992, 1997, and 2003. She won the Premio Editorial Costa Rica in 1975, the runners-up' prize of the Premio Adonáis de Poesía in 1981, and the Magón National Prize for Culture in 2013.Personal life
Dobles married Laureano Albán. They later divorced. She has five children.
