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Carlos Fonseca
Carlos Fonseca Suárez was born in Costa Rica in 1987 and grew up in Puerto Rico. He is the author of Colonel Lágrimas and Natural History. His work has appeared in BOMBArt FlashAsymptote and elsewhere. He is a lecturer at the University of Cambridge and lives in London.


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So Many Times, Lausanne

Essay

November 2020

Carlos Fonseca

TR. Jessica Sequeira

Essay

November 2020

I   As soon as I sat down, I remembered the quote by Enrique Vila-Matas which in some way had brought me there: ‘the...
Colonel Lágrimas

fiction

September 2016

Carlos Fonseca

TR. Megan McDowell

fiction

September 2016

The colonel must be looked at from up close. We have to approach him, get near enough to be a nuisance, near enough to...

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fiction

July 2012

The Pits

FMJ Botham

fiction

July 2012

Sometimes he would emerge from his bedroom around midday and the sun would be more or less bright, or...

feature

March 2013

Celan Reads Japanese

Yoko Tawada

TR. Susan Bernofsky

feature

March 2013

There are some who claim that ‘good’ literature is actually untranslatable.  Before I could read German, I found this...

Prize Entry

April 2016

Role Play

Naomi Frisby

Prize Entry

April 2016

Your right hand is the first to go. One Sunday afternoon as you’re sitting on the sofa reading the...

 

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