Jorge Debravo
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Jorge Debravo (born in Turrialba, Costa Rica on January 31 1938) became one of the most prominent Costa Rican poets of all times. Taught to read and write by his mother, Cristina Brenes, he did not attend school until he was fourteen years old, when he was able to enter the fifth grade thanks to a scholarship.
During his youth, being the oldest of five children, he had to work to help his father Joaquín Bravo Ramírez but still managed, one way or another, to buy himself a book (the first he would ever have): a dictionary.
His very first poems were published in a local magazine called "El Turrialbeño" by the time he was in the ninth grade, time in which he left school to start working for the Caja Costarricense del Seguro Social (Social Security).
In 1959 he married Margarita Salazar, who he loved passionately and with whom he had two children: Lucrecia, in 1960, and Raimundo in 1961.
Jorge Debravo was killed on 1967, at age 29, when a drunk driver rolled him over as he was entering the University of Costa Rica to enroll.
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