Rossi marks the change of century in
Costa Rican literature with the novel María la noche. Possessor of an intimate narrative, many times provocative, does not doubt in taking part in subjects of social transcendence by means of the complaint. The author has noted as influences
Virginia Woolf,
Henry Miller,
Julio Cortázar,
Marguerite Duras and
Anaïs Nin.
Rossi has also been a columnist and activist in environmental subjects. Her work has been translated to Italian, French and English, and many of her tales are part of anthologies and magazines in
Central America, France, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States.
María la noche,
Lumen, Barcelona, Spain, 1985.
Novel translated to French and published in Actes Sud Editorial in 1997 under the title of Maria la nuit.
La Loca de Gandoca, EDUCA (Editorial Universitaria Centroamericana), San José (Costa Rica), 1991. About the early efforts to establish the now known as
Jairo Mora Sandoval Gandoca-Manzanillo Mixed Wildlife Refuge protected area. This work was later published by Editorial Legado, and published in English in unauthorized form. It has been adapted to theatre and dance.
Limón Blues,
Alfaguara, San José, Costa Rica, 2002/2003.
Limón Reggae, Editorial Legado, 2007. Second part of the trilogy started with Limón Blues.[3]
Short stories
Situaciones Conyugales, Editorial REI, San José, Costa Rica, 1993.
Essays
"Essay on violence", Editorial Uruk, San José, 2007.
"El corazón del desarraigo: la primera literatura
afrocostarricense", Historia de las literaturas, Editorial F&G, Guatemala, 2010.
"Change of economic system: a matter of survival", Magazine of Social Sciences of the University of Costa Rica.
Awards and honours
National prize of Novel
Aquileo Echeverría<meta /> in 1985 by María la noche.
Special guest of the Ministry of Culture of France to join the program Belles Etrangères in 1997.