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Occupation
  
Writer, Journalist

Awards
  
Whiting Awards

Role
  
Author

Name
  
Daniel Alarcon

Nationality
  
Peru, United States


Daniel Alarcon

Born
  
1977Lima, Peru

Books
  
At Night We Walk in Circles, Lost City Radio, City of Clowns, War by Candlelight, Stadt der Clowns

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Santiago Roncagliolo, Alonso Cueto, Francisco Goldman, Alejandro Zambra, Diego Trelles Paz

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Daniel Alarcón (born 1977 in Lima, Peru) is a Peruvian-American author. He has been a distinguished visiting writer at Mills College and a visiting writer at California College of the Arts. In spring 2013, he was an investigative reporting fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. Currently, he is an assistant professor of broadcast journalism at Columbia University, his undergraduate alma mater.

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His work has been published in The New Yorker, Harper's, Granta, Virginia Quarterly Review and elsewhere, and anthologized in Best American Non-Required Reading 2004 and 2005. He is Associate Editor of the Peruvian magazine Etiqueta Negra, and he edited a portfolio for the magazine A Public Space on the writing of Peru in 2007. He is a former Fulbright Scholar to Peru, and a 2011 Artist in Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts. His novel At Night We Walk in Circles was published by Riverhead Books in October 2013.

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Biography

Alarcón, a native of Peru, was raised from the age of 3, in Birmingham, Alabama, and is an alumnus of Indian Springs School. As a high schooler, he attended the Telluride Association Summer Program. He earned a bachelor's degree in anthropology from Columbia University in 1999 and a master of fine arts degree in fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 2004. He has studied in Ghana and taught in New York City.

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His first book, War by Candlelight, was a finalist for the 2006 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award. In 2008, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lannan Fellowship, named a "Best Young American Novelist" by Granta magazine, and one of 39 under 39 Latin American Novelists. In 2010, he was also recognized by the New Yorker as one of 20 promising writers under 40.

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Alarcón's debut novel, Lost City Radio, was published 2007, and has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Dutch, Greek, and is forthcoming in Italian, Serbian, Turkish, and Japanese. The German translation of Lost City Radio by Friedericke Meltendorf received the International Literature Award from the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. In 2009, he published a collection of short stories, El rey está siempre por encima del pueblo (The king is always above the people), and the following year, "Ciudad de payasos", a graphic novel adapted from his 2003 story City of Clowns, with illustrations by Peruvian artist Sheila Alvarado.

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In 2011, with partners Carolina Guerrero, Martina Castro and Annie Correal, he founded Radio Ambulante, a Spanish language podcast telling Latin American stories.

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In 2013, his second novel, At Night We Walk in Circles, was published to critical acclaim.

Awards

  • Recipient of a Whiting Award in 2004 for fiction
  • Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship 2007
  • One of 21 Young American Novelists Granta, UK, 2007
  • One of 39 under 39 Latino American Novelists (Hay Festival, Bogota, Colombia, 2007)
  • One of 7 finalists for the Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize, Mercantile Library For Fiction, 2007
  • Recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship in 2007
  • One of 37 under 36 selected by the Smithsonian Magazine (Fall Special Issue, 2007) as Young American Innovators in the Arts and Sciences
  • Lost City Radio has made the lists of best fiction for 2007 of the Washington Post, Booklist, The Christian Science Monitor, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times and The Financial Times (London).
  • Alabama Library Association Award for Fiction, Birmingham, Alabama, 2008
  • 2008 Pen USA award for Lost City Radio, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2009 International Literature Award – House of World Cultures (Berlin, Germany)
  • The "Idiot President" has been selected for the best short stories and a narrative about describing his traveling in Palestine for the best travel stories. Both in 2009.
  • References

    Daniel Alarcón Wikipedia


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