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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

February 2014

Coral

R. B. Pillay

fiction

February 2014

Early one morning, you wake up with the smell of burnt sheets in your nose, the sheets that you...

fiction

January 2015

Judge Sa’b

Uday Prakash

TR. Jason Grunebaum

fiction

January 2015

Nine years ago, after thirteen years of living in the Rohini neighbourhood of north Delhi, I moved, and came...

feature

November 2015

Anatomy of a Democracy: Javier Cercas

Duncan Wheeler

feature

November 2015

20 November marks the fortieth anniversary of the death of General Franco. And while the insurrectionist’s victory in the...

 

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