In 1931, she and Manuel Mora Valverde founded the Costa Rican Communist Party. Lyra's home became a gathering place for intellectuals and writers and her politics increasingly moved to the left. In 1926, Lyra founded and directed the first Montessori pre-kindergarten, teaching the poorest students of San José. She returned in 1921 to manage the Department of Children's Literature at the Normal School of Costa Rica.
When the dictatorship crumbled, she was given a scholarship to study abroad, at the Sorbonne, in Apex and also visited schools in Italy and England to evaluate pedagogical methods in use in Europe. The melody, the drama, the bright lights! If you missed it. Interpol turn on the bright lights torrent. Interpol's gloriously evocative vision of. Interpol are set to re-issue their debut album 'Turn On The Bright Lights' in time for its 10th anniversary. Releasing a breathless torrent, “It's in the way that she posed / It's in the things that she put. Track from Interpol's impressive debut, Turn on The Bright Lights, ”Obstacle 1” demonstrates. Song information for Obstacle 1 - Interpol on AllMusic. In 1920, she published her most well-known work Los Cuentos de Mi Tia Panchita (Tales of My Aunt Panchita), a collection of folk tales. She managed to escape the police manhunt disguised as a news seller. In 1919, during a teacher's protest against the dictatorship of Federico Tinoco Granados, Lyra galvanized the crowd and in their anger, they burned the government news office. In 1918, she published her first novel En una silla de ruedas (In a Wheelchair), which portrays national customs and manners through the eyes of a paralyzed boy who grows up to become an artist, with a strong dose of sentimentalism and intimations of the bohemian life of San Jose.
She started sending articles to newspapers such as Diario de Costa Rica, La Hora and La Tribuna and magazines like Ariel, Athenea and Pandemonium and teaching throughout the country. She began working at the San Juan de Dios Hospital in 1906 as a novice, but decided religious life was not her calling, and instead began working as a teacher and writer. Biography Ĭarmen Isabel Carvajal Quesada was born on 15 January 1888 in San José, Costa Rica and attended the Superior School for Girls, graduating in 1904. She was one of the earliest writers to criticize the dominance of the fruit companies. She was a co-founder of the Communist Party of Costa Rica, as well as one of the country's first female worker's unions. She was a teacher and founder of the country's first Montessori school. Writer, communist, Women's Rights AdvocateĬarmen Lyra (Janu– May 13, 1949) was the pseudonym of the first prominent female Costa Rican writer, born Maria Isabel Carvajal Quesada.