CFCarlos Fonseca Suárez
Cambridge, United Kingdom · academicCarlos Fonseca is a writer and academic. His teaching, writing and research focuses on modern Latin American literature, art and culture, with particular emphasis on concepts of history, nature and politics, and the intersection between philosophy, literature and art history. He holds a PhD from Princeton University and is Associate Professor in Postcolonial Latin American Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge, a Fellow of Trinity College and College Lecturer at Newnham College. He is the author of three novels, Coronel Lágrimas, Museo animal and Austral, published in Spanish by Anagrama and in English by Restless Books and Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and translated into more than ten languages. He wrote the essay collection La lucidez del miope.
- Graduated Stanford University in 2009 with a degree in Comparative Literature, then earned a PhD at Princeton; now Assistant Professor in Postcolonial Latin American Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College; lives in Cambridge with his family.Jan 1, 2009
- Represented Puerto Rico at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 2004, earning an Honourable Mention (individual score 335, 31.3%); he also competed in 2002. He has said his teenage dream was to be a mathematician and that math olympiads led him through mathematical logic and philosophy into literature.Jul 1, 2004
- Born 19 February 1987 in San José, Costa Rica, to a Costa Rican father and Puerto Rican mother; spent childhood and adolescence in Puerto Rico. This bicultural background (neither fully Costa Rican nor Puerto Rican) is central to his work.Feb 19, 1987
Competition record
Puerto Rico · IMO