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Ulises Juárez Polanco  

(Managua, Nicaragua, 1984). Author of three short stories collections, including Los días felices (Costa Rica: Uruk editores, 2011). Among other anthologies in Mexico, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Cuba and Spain, he is one of only two authors in both volumes of the Antología de la novísima narrativa breve hispanoamericana, which reunites “the most promising fiction writers under 27 years”. In 2009 he lived in Mexico as a writer in residence, invited by the Mexican government. He was named in 2011 as one of The 25 best kept secrets in Latin America by the Guadalajara International Book Fair (“25 voices and languages to decipher, today, Latin America”).

He was the editor of the editorial page New Generation in El Nuevo Diario, and was a correspondent in Brazil and Mexico for the Nuevo Amanecer Cultural. He is the editor-in-chief of Carátula, revista cultural centroamericana, and El hilo azul, revista literaria de El Centro Nicaragüense de Escritores. He is also publisher and coordinator of Leteo ediciones, a nonprofit publishing initiative to promote the new Nicaraguan literature. He has a Law Degree, Magna Cum Laude, from the American University in Nicaragua.

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