María del Carmen Pérez Cuadra

María del Carmen Pérez Cuadra (born November 28, 1971, in Jinotepe, Carazo) is a Nicaraguan writer. She has won multiple awards for her poetry and short narrative writing, and published multiple books. , she was a doctoral candidate in Literature at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.

Life Pérez Cuadra's father was a bricklayer, and her mother was a nursing assistant. She was motivated to become a writer by an interview of Franz Galich that she read in the cultural supplement of a newspaper.

In 2010, Pérez Cuadra and her family moved to Santiago, Chile for work reasons, intending to stay for two years. Their stay lasted longer, and she eventually applied to the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile as a doctoral candidate in Literature. , she was still a doctoral candidate there. although she does not consider herself a feminist writer.

Books Sin luz artificial: narraciones [Without artificial light: narrations], in Spanish, published 2004 Une ciudad de estatuas y perros [A city of statues and dogs], in Spanish, published 2014 Rama. Microficciones [Branch. Microfictions], in Spanish, published 2016 Isonauta [Isonaut], in Spanish, published 2020

Awards Rafaela Contreras Central American Short Narrative Prize, 2004 El Cisne National Prize for Unedited Poetry, 2008 María Teresa Sánchez National Prize for Short Narrative, 2014