Mirta González Suárez
Costa Rican writer, psychologist (b. 1948)
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González Suárez was born in San José, Costa Rica, in 1948. She earned her PhD in psychology from the Autonomous University of Madrid in 1987, with a dissertation on sexism in Costa Rican education. While pursuing her doctoral studies, she earned a Fulbright Award, which she used to compare sexism in American and Costa Rican texts.
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Academia
González Suárez is a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Costa Rica. Her research interests include sexism in education, discrimination, and political psychology. She has published more than 50 works in Spanish, including books and peer-reviewed articles.
González Suárez was the first director of the University of Costa Rica/National University of Costa Rica joint Women's Studies graduate program. She was the deputy director of the Centre for Research in Women's Studies at the University of Costa Rica. In 1993, she chaired the organizing committee for the Fifth International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, held in San José. In 2008 a writing award in her name was created at the University of Costa Rica.
Writing
González Suárez published her first novel, Crimen con sonrisa (Crime with a Smile), in 2013; it was awarded Costa Rica's Aquileo J. Echeverria National Literary Award. Her 2016 novel, La Gobernadora (The Governor), won the UNA Palabra Prize from the National University of Costa Rica.