Carlos Martin Briceño

Carlos Martín Briceño (born August 10, 1966) is a Mexican writer, narrator and essayist. He is a member of the National System of Art Creators of the Secretariat of Culture of Mexico.

Life Martín Briceño was born in Mérida, Yucatán, in 1966. He still lives here as he hates the cold and prefers the lifestyle.

Despite being known as a writer, Martín is a long-time businessman, known in southern Mexico. He majored in business administration in college, although he wanted to study literature.

While he regularly gives workshops in Mérida, he states that to be a writer one needs three things: to read much, to learn technique and a lot of hard work and talent. Despite a heavy business schedule, he still tried to dedicate a couple of hours per day to writing and reads a couple of books per week.

Literary style Martin Briceño specializes in short stories and short novels. Common themes in his work include eroticism, life as part of a couple and the need for humans to have company. In many of his works, his protagonists’ main driving force is to avoid being alone. Influences on his work includes that of Beatriz Espejo, Gonzalo Rojas and John Banville. He does not try to give any spiritual solace to readers, which leads segments of the reading public to reject his work. In fact, some of his own relatives do not come to his literary events because his work is so dark. For example, Montezuma's Revenge is a bloody and erotic story set in Mérida, Playa del Carmen and Holbox The following work, Montezuma's Revenge y otras deleites is a story of a Mexican man and foreign woman, studying mostly the dark aspects of Mexicans’ attitudes towards those from other countries.

Major publications Martin's work regularly appears in various types of publications and has been included in more than a dozen national and foreign anthologies.

Publications include:

Story

(2003). Al final de la vigilia. Editorial Dante, Mérida 2003-SEP Libros del Rincón, México DF 2006. . (2006). Los mártires del Freeway y otras historias. Ficticia Editorial. . (2010). Caída libre. . (2012). Montezuma's Revenge. Fundación Max Aub. . (2014). Montezuma's Revenge y otros deleites. Ficticia Editorial. . (2017). De la vasta piel: antología personal. . (2020). Toda felicidad nos cuesta muertos: cinco cuentos negros. .

Novel

(2017). La muerte del Ruiseñor. .

Essay

(2018). Viaje al centro de las letras. .

Compilation

(2017). Sureste antología de cuento contemporáneo de la Península Ficticia. .