Arturo Agüero Chaves (March 28, 1907 – May 11, 2001), was a Costa Rican writer, poet, philologist, lexicographer and educator.
Agüero published most of his literary work during his 15 years as Chair of the Department of Philology, Linguistics and Literature at University of Costa Rica.
[6] In 1955, having achieved national renown as a poet and philologist, he was elected to the Academia Costarricense de la Lengua (English: Costa Rican Academy of the Language),[8] which he would later preside from 1981 until his death in 2001.
[1] Furthermore, Agüero's role as Director of the Costa Rican Academy of the Language would get him acquainted with Spanish writers Dámaso Alonso and Camilo José Cela, who would later become his personal friends.
Upon news of his demise, Costa Rican journalists were not able to list the extensive number of awards that Agüero had received throughout his career.