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Carlos Fonseca


Born
in San José, Costa Rica, Costa Rica
February 19, 1987


Carlos Fonseca Suárez was born in San José, Costa Rica in 1987, and spent half of his childhood and adolescence in Puerto Rico. In 2016, he was named one of the twenty best Latin American writers born in the 1980s at the Guadalajara Book Fair, and in 2017 he was included in the Bogotá39 list of the best Latin American writers under forty. He is the author of the novels Colonel Lágrimas (Restless Books) and Natural History (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), and in 2018, he won the National Prize for Literature in Costa Rica for his book of essays, La Lucidez del Miope. He teaches at Trinity College, Cambridge, and lives in London.

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Average rating: 3.63 · 1,324 ratings · 280 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors
Natural History
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3.69 avg rating — 467 ratings — published 2022 — 18 editions
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Coronel Lágrimas
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La lucidez del miope
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