José María Sánchez Borbón (Solarte Island, 25 July 1918 – Panama City, 8 November 1973), was a Panamanian writer and politician.
His short stories, some of them translated to German, French, English and Russian, are of importance to Panamanian literature.
He "showed the validity of the social"[2] as well as regional themes in the national literature, at that time oriented towards the avant-garde.
On a physical landscape of plural violence – rain, forest, sea -, economic and demographic factors concur to offer us a special sociological precipitate.
Sánchez is the involuntary chronicler of that dramatic occurrence, where the exuberant nature and the United Fruit Company provides the terms within which move a population composed mostly of blacks from the English Antilles.