Daniel Alarcón (born March 5, 1977, in
Lima, Peru)[1] is a Peruvian-American novelist, journalist and radio producer. He is co-founder, host and executive producer of Radio Ambulante, an award-winning Spanish language podcast distributed by
NPR. Currently, he is an assistant professor of broadcast journalism at the
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism[2] and writes about Latin America for The New Yorker.
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.[6] In 2010, he was also recognized by TheNew Yorker as one of 20 promising writers under 40.
Alarcón's
debut novel, Lost City Radio, was published 2007, and has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Dutch, Greek, 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.
In 2011, he co-founded Radio Ambulante with his wife Carolina Guerrero, along with Camila Segura,
Martina Castro and Annie Correal.[7][8]
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)[13]
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.
The King Is Always Above the People, was chosen as one of three 2017 finalists for The
Story Prize.
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"Hablame de vos". Brecha (in Spanish).
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