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Julieta Pinto (born July 31, 1921 in San José, Costa Rica ) is a female educator and writer.
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Early life and schooling
Pinto was born in San José, but spent most of her youth on a farm in San Rafael de Guatuso, a time that demonstrated to her the harsh conditions of the working classes and those in lower economic levels. Her secondary schooling was at the Colegio Superior de Señoritas in San José. She then entered the Universidad de Costa Rica where she obtained a degree in philology.
After her graduation in Costa Rica, Pinto enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris, where she studied the sociology of literature.
Career
Pinto founded and became the first director of the Escuela de Literatura y Ciencias del Lenguaje (School of Literature and Language Studies) at the Universidad Nacional de Heredia. During that same time she served in several public-service areas (e.g. IMAS, PANI, ITCO, and Editorial Costa Rica), motivated solely by her desire to improve society.
Pinto has served as professor of Hispanic literature at the University of San Ramón .
Prizes and awards
The written works of Pinto tend to be philosophical in nature. Her historical novel Tata Pinto concerns the life of her ancestor Antonio Pinto.