Carol Zardetto is a Guatemalan novelist, lawyer, scriptwriter and diplomat, and is part of the generation of Guatemalan writers who grew up under the shadow of Guatemalan Civil War.[1]
She was born in Guatemala City, and has a degree in law. She was co-author of the theatre criticism column "Butaca de dos" (Seat for two; "Magazine XX", Siglo Veintiuno, 1994-1996). She published the novel "Con pasión absoluta" (With absolute passion) in 2007; it was awarded the Mario Monteforte Toledo prize in 2004.[2]
She was Guatemala's deputy minister of education in 1996, and from 1997 to 2000 she was consul general of Guatemala in Vancouver, Canada.,[3]
With absolute passion, novel, F & G Editores, Guatemala, 2005,
The discourse of the madman: tales of the Tarot, illustrated edition, F & G, Guatemala, 2009.
The city of the minotaurs, novel, Alfaguara, 2016.