Virginia Grutter

Virginia Grütter (born Virginia Teresa del Carmen and Inés, Puntarenas, Costa Rica, 20 April 1929 – 3 March 2000) was a Costa Rican writer, actress and theatrical director. In the year 2000 she died of respiratory failure.

Publications

Poetry

• "Give me your hand" (1954).
• "Poetry of this world" (1973).
• "Cradle songs and of battle" (1994). Áncora Prize of Literature in 1996.

Prose

• "Friends and the wind" (the original title was "Boris") (1978).
• "Missing" (1980).
• "Singing to my time: memories" (1998).

References

• Grutter, V. (1998). Singing to my time: memories. Saint José: Publishing Women.
• Monge Meza, C.F. (1984). The separate image: ideological models of the poetry costarricense, 1950–1980. Saint José: Institute of the Book, MCJD.
• Quesada Soto, To. (2010). Brief history of the literature costarricense. Saint José: Publisher Costa Rica.
• Ugalde, And. (2010). Virginia Grutter. In: Club of Books. Recovered on 25 September of the 2012: http://www.clubdelibros.com/biografias/183-virginia-grutter.html
• Víquez Guzmán, B. (2009). Virginia Grutter Jiménez. In: the Literary art and his Theory. Recovered on 25 September of the 2012:

http://heredia-costarica.zonalibre.org/archives/2009/09/virginia-grutter-jimenez.html

External links

• Poems of Virginia Grütter in the official place of the National Institute of the Women of Costa Rica:
• Poems of Virginia Grütter in the program Further of the syllable, poetic anthology costarricense. Of the State University to Distance of Costa Rica:[1] Archived 26 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine
• Technical index card of the film "Virginia Grütter: stronger that the pain" in the official place of the film-maker Quinka F. Stoehr:[2] Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine