Carlos Fonseca

Carlos Fonseca was born in Costa Rica, grew up in Puerto Rico, and studied in the United States. He was selected by the Hay Festival as part of the Bogot�39 group (2017), by Granta magazine as one of its twenty-five best young Spanish-language writers (2021), and by the Encyclopaedia Britannica as one of the twenty most promising writers in the world for its "Young Shapers of the Future" (2022). His previous novels are Colonel L�grimas and Natural History , both translated by Megan...See more

Carlos Fonseca was born in Costa Rica, grew up in Puerto Rico, and studied in the United States. He was selected by the Hay Festival as part of the Bogot�39 group (2017), by Granta magazine as one of its twenty-five best young Spanish-language writers (2021), and by the Encyclopaedia Britannica as one of the twenty most promising writers in the world for its "Young Shapers of the Future" (2022). His previous novels are Colonel L�grimas and Natural History , both translated by Megan McDowell. His work has been translated into more than ten languages. He is a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Megan McDowell has translated many of the most important Latin American writers working today. Her translations have won the National Book Award, the English PEN award, the Premio Valle Incl�n, and the O. Henry Prize, and have been nominated four times for the International Booker Prize. Her short story translations have been featured in The New Yorker , The Paris Review , The New York Times Magazine , Tin House , McSweeney's , and Granta , among other publications. In 2020 she won an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is from Richmond, Kentucky, and lives in Santiago, Chile. See less