Daniel Quirós

Daniel Quirós was born in San José, Costa Rica and holds a PhD in Literature and an MA in Latin American Studies from the University of California San Diego. His first novel, Verano rojo (2010), was awarded the National Literature Prize Aquileo J. Echeverría and was recently named one of the 30 best Costa Rican publications of the last 30 years by the Costa Rican Academy of Letters. He has also published the short story collection A los cuatro vientos (2021/2009) and the novels Lluvia del norte (2014), Mazunte (2015), and most recently, Vientos alisios (2026), the third installment in a crime fiction trilogy (“tico noir”) alongside Verano rojo and Lluvia del norte.

His short stories have appeared in several anthologies: Asociación Ilícita: Relatos negros del río Bravo a la Patagonia, Limítrofe: relatos continentales, Costa Rica 2050: relatos de cambio, 13 ficciones del país sin soldados, and El crimen tiene quien le escriba. Three of his novels have been translated into French by l’Aube. At Lafayette, he teaches courses on Latin American film and literature, as well as creative writing.