A self-taught writer, Suárez abandoned elementary school in third grade, following a traumatizing event in which his teacher suffered an epilepsy attack while reading to him.

[1] He performed a wide range of professional roles throughout his life, including work as a railroader, rural teacher, miner, bank employee, truck driver, and journalist.

"[2] His first work was a storybook entitled "A vigil for the last trip" (Vigilia para el último viaje), from which "Illuminated" (Iluminado) was extracted to be included in several anthologies of Latin American writers, as a remarkable example of brief narration.

In 1967, Suárez published his first piece for theatre, Vértigo, a drama of social and philosophical depth that depicts the life of a man being freed after twenty years in prison, as well as his efforts to gather his seven estranged children.

In 1981, he published Beyond the Winter (Despues del Invierno), a drama portraying the dilemma of two brothers (Melitón and Benjamin) facing the decision of staying and caring for their ailing father or carrying on with their own lives.