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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

January 2014

The Black Lake

Hella S. Haasse

TR. Ina Rilke

fiction

January 2014

Oeroeg was my friend. When I think back on my childhood and adolescence, an image of Oeroeg invariably rises...

feature

Issue No. 13

Under a Bright Red Star

Federico Campagna

feature

Issue No. 13

Five is a number dense with theological significance. Five are the books of the Torah, five the wounds of...

Essay

Issue No. 20

Notes on the history of a detention centre

Felix Bazalgette

Essay

Issue No. 20

Looking back at Harmondsworth as he left, after 52 days inside, Amir was struck by how isolated the detention...

 

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