Fernando Contreras Castro

Fernando Contreras Castro (born 1963 in Costa Rica) is a Costa Rican writer and literary scholar. He studied philology at the University of Costa Rica and earned a master’s degree in Spanish literature. He worked as a university lecturer at the University of Costa Rica in San José. His novels received Costa Rica’s Aquileo J. Echeverría National Prize twice: in 1995 for *Los Peor* (published in German as *Der Mönch, das Kind und die Stadt*) and in 2000 for *El tibio recinto de la oscuridad*. He is associated with Costa Rica’s “Generation of Disillusionment.”