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Evelyn Ugalde Barrantes (born Heredia, Costa Rica, 1975) is a journalist, writer, editor and cultural promoter of Costa Rica. She received the National Prize Joaquín García Monge twice for cultural divulging for her work, first in 2009 and in 2013 as the producer and along with the rest of the team of the cultural program Semicolon.
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Biography
Ugalde was born in Saint Joaquín of Flores, Costa Rica, in October 1975. She studied communication at the University of Costa Rica, having worked as a journalist in media like The Nation, The Free Press, Channel 7, Central American Weekly and as producer, conductor and screenwriter of the literary program Semicolon of Channel 13, cofounder of the literary magazine Clubdelibros in 2001. In 2012 she was elected cultural character of the year. The same year she also founded Publisher Clubdelibros specialised in literary fantasy and the promotion of literature.
Literary career
Ugalde specialised in children's literature, with many of her works directed to children and to the promotion of reading.
She is co-author of the books A strategy for animating reading every day and 100 strategies for animating reading in high school. Her book When the tales grow was published in Costa Rica in six editions, in Colombia by Publishing Black Sheep, with Publishing New People in Cuba, in Peru with Publisher Malabares and with Publishing Sanctuary in the Dominican Republic. Her book The cuentasueños was published by Atabal (2006) in Costa Rica and by Izar Editions in Uruguay. In 2013 it published along with The world of the invisible friends.
She has also participated with tales in the anthologies; Non Identified Object and other tales of science fiction, POE 21st century, Cobwebs; Costa Rican tales of terror, The end of the world: apocalyptic tales, Buajaja; tales of fear for brave children, Penumbras; Costa Rican tales of terror, and others.