Luis Chaves (San José, 1969) writes poetry, prose, and chronicles. His work has been translated by German, French, English, and Slovene. He has received international recognition and the Premio Nacional de Poesía of Costa Rica in 2012. The Akademie Schloss Solitude of Stuttgart awarded him the Jean Jacques Rousseau grant in 2011. He was a resident at the Berliner Künstlerprogramm in 2015 and at the Institut d’Études Avancées of Nantes in 2017. His poems have appeared in publications including Poetry Magazine, PEN American Poetry Series, and The Guardian. His most recent works are the novel Salvapantallas [Screensaver] (Seix Barral, 2015), the comprehensive verse collection Falso documental [False documentary] (Seix Barral, 2016), and the chronicle/story Vamos a tocar el agua [We're going to play the water] (Los tres editores, 2017).