Carlos Fonseca Suárez


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

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.
After attending high school 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.
He currently lives in London and is a researcher at the Centre for Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge.
His first novel, Colonel Lágrimas, published in Spain and Latin America by Anagrama and in English by Restless Books, 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”
His second novel, Museo animal, Natural History, will be published in 2020 in an English translation.