Carlos Fonseca Suárez

Carlos Fonseca Suárez (born 1987, in San José, Costa Rica) is a Costa Rican-Puerto Rican writer and academic. He is the author of the novel Colonel Lágrimas[1] and Museo animal[2]. His work has been featured in newspapers and magazines such as The Guardian,[3] BOMB, Art Flash[4] and The White Review.[5] In 2016, he was selected by the Guadalajara International Book Fair as one of the top twenty Latin American authors born in the eighties.[6] In 2017, he was selected by the Hay Festival as one of the top thirty-nine Latin American authors under forty.[7]

Biography

Fonseca Suárez was born in San José, Costa Rica in 1987. Born to a Costa Rican father and a Puerto Rican mother, he spent most of his adolescence in Puerto Rico.[8]

After attending high school at Colegio San Ignacio in Puerto Rico, he attended Stanford University where in 2009 he graduated with a degree in Comparative Literature. He then attended Princeton University where he obtained a PhD in Latin American Literature and Culture, with a dissertation on artistic representations of natural catastrophes in Latin American culture.[9]

He currently lives in London and is a lecturer at the Centre for Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge.[10]

His first novel, Colonel Lágrimas, published in Spain and Latin America by Anagrama[11] and in English by Restless Books,[12] received critical acclaim and was praised by The Guardian as a “dazzling debut” and by Valerie Miles, in The New York Times Book Review as a “gorgeous opera prima”[13][14][15]

His second novel, Museo animal, Natural History, will be published in 2020 in an English translation.[16]

References
  1. "Colonel Lágrimas". Restless Books. Retrieved 2017-08-30.
  2. "Museo animal - Editorial Anagrama". Editorial Anagrama (in Spanish). Retrieved 2017-08-30.
  3. Suárez, Carlos Fonseca (2016-09-27). "Translation Tuesday: Colonel Lágrimas by Carlos Fonseca – extract". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-08-30.
  4. "Specters of the Avant-Garde". Flash Art. 2015-11-06. Retrieved 2017-08-30.
  5. "Colonel Lágrimas - The White Review". The White Review. Retrieved 2017-08-30.
  6. Reina, Elena (2016-11-28). "La FIL de Guadalajara celebra 30 años como la capital literaria de América Latina". EL PAÍS (in Spanish). Retrieved 2017-08-30.
  7. "Hay Festival Announces Bogotá39-2017 Anthology's Latin American Authors". Publishing Perspectives. 2017-05-08. Retrieved 2017-08-30.
  8. "Carlos Fonseca & The Liberated Novel – Electric Literature". Electric Literature. 2016-10-04. Retrieved 2017-08-30.
  9. "| Spanish and Portuguese". www.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2017-08-30.
  10. http://www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/staff/academic/fonseca
  11. "Coronel Lágrimas - Editorial Anagrama". Editorial Anagrama (in Spanish). Retrieved 2017-08-30.
  12. "Colonel Lágrimas". Restless Books. Retrieved 2017-08-30.
  13. "Carlos Fonseca & The Liberated Novel – Electric Literature". Electric Literature. 2016-10-04. Retrieved 2017-08-30.
  14. Suárez, Carlos Fonseca (2016-09-27). "Translation Tuesday: Colonel Lágrimas by Carlos Fonseca – extract". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-08-30.
  15. Miles, Valerie (2016-12-09). "Literatura". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-08-30.
  16. https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374216306
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