Fernando Contreras Castro is a Costa Rican writer who was born in the province of Alajuela, on January 4, 1963. He is an author of new classics in the national literature. He teaches in the School of Communication in the University of Costa Rica. Contreras helps to form a new Costa Rican narrative which breaks with the costumbrism of the 40 generation and with the urban generation of the 60's, and along with other writers like Anacristina Rossi, Rodolfo Arias Formoso, Tatiana Lobo and Ana Istarú, part of the so-called generation of disenchantment.

Studies

He obtained his Bachelor in Spanish and MA in Spanish Literature in the University of Costa Rica, for which presented a preliminary investigation "Man of La Mancha", which is a reading of "Don Quixote" on Using Nietzsche's philosophical conception. His doctorate in literature was obtained in France.

Published Books

El tibio recinto de la oscuridad: Novel published in 2000, won the National Award Aquileo J. Echeverria, highest award for literature in Costa Rica. Describes his recurring theme of misery, this time from an asylum.