Carlos Fonseca (San José, Costa Rica, 1987) is a Costa Rican-Puerto Rican writer. He was selected by the Hay Festival as part of the Bogotá 39-2017 group and by Granta magazine as part of its list of the twenty-five best young Spanish-language writers. He is the author of the novels Coronel Lágrimas, Museo animal, and Austral. His work has been translated into more than ten languages. He is a two-time winner of the Costa Rican National Literature Prize and, in 2024, the Anna Seghers Prize. He is a professor at Trinity College, Cambridge University, in the United Kingdom.
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