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Carlos Cortés
Biography
Carlos Cortés was born in San José in 1962. He studied journalism and communications in Costa Rica, Spain and France. He spent much of his career, working as journalist, including as editor of La Nación. As well as novels, he has published poetry, essays and short stories and edited anthologies of Central American literature.
Other Links
Carlos Cortés Zúñiga (in Spanish)
Carlos Cortés Zúñiga (in Spanish)
El fin de la Suiza centroamericana (article by Cortés on the contemporary Costa Rican novel – in Spanish)
Interview (in Spanish)
Bibliography
1986 Encendiendo un cigarrillo con la punta del otro (novel)
1986 Erratas advertidas (poetry)
1987 Los pasos cantados (poetry)
1989 salome descalza/barefoot salome (poetry)
1991 La carne contigua (poetry)
1991 ¡El amor es esa bestia platónica! (poetry)
1993 Los cantos sumergidos (poetry)
1994 La cultura mediada. Elementos para el debate sobre cultura, sociedad y comunicación (essay)
1998 Canciones del prodigioso citarista del río (poetry)
1998 El que duda no ama (poetry)
1999 Cruz de olvido [Cross of Oblivion] (novel)
2002 Tanda de cuatro con Laura (novel)
2002 Desafíos de la ficción de Jorge Volpi et al (essay)
2003 La invención de Costa Rica y otras invenciones (essays)
2005 Autorretratos y cruci/ficciones (poetry)
2007 La gran novela perdida. Historia personal de la narrativa costarrisible (essay)
2010 La última aventura de Batman (novel)
2013 Larga noche hacia mi madre (novel)
2015 Vestigios de un naufragio: poesía reunida (1980-2015) (poetry)
2015 Mojiganga (novel)
2016 Los huérfanos del absoluto (y otros cuentos) (stories)