Julieta Pinto

Julieta Pinto (31 July 1921 – 22 December 2022) was a Costa Rican educator and writer. She was a recipient of the Aquileo J. Echeverría National Prize.

Pinto was born in San José, Costa Rica, on 31 July 1921, but spent most of her youth on a farm in San Rafael de Alajuela, 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.

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 served as a professor of Hispanic literature at the University of San Ramón.

Pinto turned 100 in July 2021, and died on 22 December 2022, at the age of 101.

• Premio Nacional Aquileo J. Echeverría (novela) — 1969
• Premio Nacional Aquileo J. Echeverría (cuento) — 1970 and 1994
• Premio Nacional de Cultura Magón — 1996

The written works of Pinto tend to be philosophical in nature. Her historical novel Tata Pinto concerns the life of her ancestor Antonio Pinto.