Roxana Pinto

Roxana Pinto Lopez is a Costa Rican poet, novelist and essayist.

Biography

Roxana was born in San Jose, Costa Rica. Upon her father’s passing, when she was merely thirteen years old, she moved to Paris to live with her paternal uncle who was the acting Ambassador of Costa Rica in France.
While living there, she discovered several authors like Hugo, Duras, Yourcenar and Proust, which lit her passion for literature.
The Paris of that time was a vibrant one where many movements existed for artistic renovations and social reinventions, such as those led by Simone de Beauvoir or by Michel Foucault. During this era Roxana lived through the sprouting of a new wave of French movie producers like Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard and the group of Situationists.
The experiences that Roxana Pinto was exposed to during her youth in Paris did not overshadow her work, which maintains its basis in the idiosyncratic, historical, and geographical context from her home country. As a student at the University of Costa Rica, she studied her undergraduate degree in psychology and Latin American literature. Following graduation, she continued her studies to obtain a master’s degree in international relations and diplomacy from the same institution. After successfully achieving this, she was offered a scholarship to ENA (École d´Administration Publique, Paris, France) to complement her studies.
In 2005, Roxana Pinto was named Ambassador of Costa Rica and, in parallel, also named as a delegate at the International Bureau of International Exhibitions. During the same period, she represented Costa Rica at UNESCO. As an Ambassador for five years based in a country with a strong cosmopolitan makeup and with a robust literary tradition such as France, she took the opportunity to build bridges between both countries. This also provided a gateway to spread the Costa Rican culture on an international scale.
Roxana Pinto is married, has four children and currently resides in Costa Rica. She has authored a poetry book which will be published in the near future and is actively working on her next novel.

List of works

• Ida y vuelta. (Novel). Uruk, San Jose, C.R. 2016.
• Donde ellas. (Novel). Perro Azul, San Jose, CR, 2004.
• Frida Khalo: una experiencia de límites. (Essay) Editorial Plaza y Valdes, Mexico, y Editorial Universidad de Costa Rica, 2001.
• Noticia de silencio. (Poetry). Editorial Universidad Nacional, San José, CR. 1996.

Awards

• Noticia de silencio received the first prize in poetry from the Costa Rican National University’s contest “UNA Palabra”
• The Costa Rican Ministry of Foreign Affairs granted her an honorary recognition in appreciation for the work performed as the Costa Rican Ambassador in France
• Her poem, “En Alas de la Paz”, received a special prize from the jury of the “IV CERTAMEN INTERNACIONAL NUEVAS VOCES PARA LA PAZ”, 2016. Seattle, Washington.

External links

• Roxana Pinto as a guest at France International Radio
• Roxana Pinto with Jordi Batallé
• Rencontre avec Roxana Pinto Maison de l´Amérique Latine
• Roxana Pinto crosses many lives in Paris. Viva magazine.
• Migration from the heart. Archipiélago magazine 93 (UNAM).
• “Roxana Pinto, Ida y vuelta” by Sergio Coto Rivel
• Roxana Pinto Interview, Literofilia –radio.
• About the book: “Frida Kahlo: una experiencia de límites de Roxana Pinto”, My books with notes. Carlos Porras.
• “Frida lenguaje de espejos” by Carmen Naranjo. Ancora magazine.
• Ida y Vuelta in Goodreads
• Canara. Talento literario, novela Ida y vuelta.
• Editorial Uruk
• Costa Rican Writer’s Association
• Discussion with Roxana Pinto
• “La Magia de lo Mestizo en Frida Khalo”
• About the novel “Donde ellas”
• Prize “Una Palabra” to her poetry book “Noticia de Silencio”. Ancora magazine.
• New CD sings to Costa Rican poetry
• Poets at the Granada International Festival
• News reissue of “Silencio” by Roxana Pinto (2004).
• IV Certamen Internacional de Poesía. Nuevas voces para la Paz