1. Yolanda Oreamuno's most acclaimed novel is La Ruta de su Evasion.
13 Facts About Yolanda Oreamuno
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Yolanda Oreamuno was the only child of Carlos Oreamuno Pacheco and Margarita Unger Salazar.
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Yolanda Oreamuno's father died before her first birthday, so she was mainly raised by her maternal grandmother, Eudoxia Salazar Salazar, whose husband Unger was deceased by then.
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Yolanda Oreamuno obtained her secondary education in the Colegio Superior de Senoritas.
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Yolanda Oreamuno then studied bookkeeping and worked at the Costa Rican Post Office headquarters.
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Yolanda Oreamuno was working in the Chilean embassy when she met the diplomat Jorge Molina Wood.
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Yolanda Oreamuno recounted life during that time in her stories La mareas vuelven de noche and Don Junvencio.
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Yolanda Oreamuno returned to Costa Rica at the end of 1936.
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Yolanda Oreamuno wrote her first novel, Por tierra firme, in 1938.
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Yolanda Oreamuno moved to Mexico, then decided to become a permanent Guatemalan citizen.
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Yolanda Oreamuno left the hospital to travel to Mexico City, to stay in the house of Costa Rican poet Eunice Odio.
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Yolanda Oreamuno's most renowned novel is La Ruta de su Evasion.
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Costa Rican critic Abelardo Bonilla wrote that "In this as in all works of Yolanda Oreamuno there is boldness of conception and form, but there is a lack of internal unity".