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Peruvian-American novelist, journalist and radio producer
Daniel Alarcón (born March 5, 1977, in Lima, Peru )[1] Radio Ambulante NPR . Currently, he is an assistant professor of broadcast journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism [2] The New Yorker .
He began his career writing fiction, publishing stories in magazines like The New Yorker , Granta Virginia Quarterly Review Etiqueta Negra 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 Riverhead Books in October 2013. His most recent story collection, The King is Always Above the People , was long-listed for the National Book Award in 2018, and won the 2019 Clarke Prize in Fiction. He received the MacArthur 'Genius Grant' in 2021.[3]
Biography [ edit ]
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 .[4] master of fine arts degree in fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 2004. He has studied in Ghana and been a public school teacher in New York City . He was a high school classmate of novelist John Green .[5]
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 [6] The New Yorker as one of 20 promising writers under 40.
Alarcón's debut novel , Lost City Radio 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]
In 2013, his second novel, At Night We Walk in Circles [9]
Alarcón resides in Oakland, California , and works at Mills College as a Distinguished Visiting Writer.[10]
Bibliography [ edit ]
Short fiction [ edit ]
Collections
War by Candlelight: Stories (2005)
The King Is Always Above the People
El Rey siempre está por encima del pueblo Editorial Sexto Piso, Mexico City, Mexico, 2009
Anthologies (edited)
Zoetrope All Story: The Latin American Issue . A compilation of stories by Latin American writers. Co-edited with Diego Trelles Paz. Spring 2009
Stories
Title
Year
First published
Reprinted/collected
Notes
"City of Clowns"
The New Yorker
Adapted as a 2009 Peruvian short film
"Lima, Peru, July 28, 1979", Virginia Quarterly Review
"The King Is Always Above the People", Granta
"The Bridge". Granta 103 (Autumn): 181–212. 2008.
"The Provincials", Granta
The Composer, Virginia Quarterly Review
Graphic novels [ edit ]
City of Clowns . Illustrated by Sheila Alvarado. Riverhead Books . 2015. ISBN 978-1-59463-333-1. (Graphic novel adaptation of short story)
Non-fiction [ edit ]
"What kind of Latino am I?". Salon . May 24, 2005.
"Let's go, country: The new Latin left comes to Peru". Harper's. September 2006.
"Lost in Translation". Granta . January 23, 2009.
"The Inauguration". Granta . January 27, 2009.
"Life Among the Pirates". Granta (109: Work). Winter 2009.
The secret miracle : the novelist's handbook . New York: Henry Holt. 2010.
"The Ground Floor". Granta (117: Horror). Autumn 2011. (Subscription Required)
"A Peruvian Soccer Fan in Exile". The New Yorker . November 13, 2017
"The collapse at Arecibo : the loss of Puerto Rico's iconic telescope". Annals of Astronomy. The New Yorker . 97 7 ): 16–20. April 5, 2021.
Recipient of a Whiting Award in 2004 for fiction[11]
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[12]
Recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship in 2007
One of 37 under 36 selected by the Smithsonian Magazine
Lost City Radio has made the lists of best fiction for 2007 of The Washington Post Booklist The Christian Science Monitor Chicago Tribune Los Angeles Times The Financial Times
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 .
2021 MacArthur Fellowship [14]
References [ edit ]
^ N; P; R (September 28, 2021). "Radio Ambulante's Daniel Alarcón Receives Prestigious MacArthur 'Genius Grant' . NPR . Retrieved September 30, 2021 .
^ Arana, Marie (July 23, 2006). "Daniel Alarcón: Writing North, Pointing South" . The Washington Post . Retrieved June 4, 2016 .
^ Let's Talk about Books YouTube Archived from the original on December 11, 2021.
^ "Bogotá 39 Escritores Menores de 39" . Archived from the original on December 2, 2013. Retrieved November 27, 2013 .
^ Egaña, Crysly (March 5, 2021). "Radio Ambulante: una década de riguroso contenido artesanal" . EL NACIONAL (in Spanish). Retrieved October 20, 2021 .
^ Guerra Correa, Fabio (March 4, 2016). "Hablame de vos" . Brecha (in Spanish). Archived from the original on December 4, 2018. Retrieved October 20, 2021 .
^ "Daniel Alarcón" . Granta . Retrieved January 14, 2024 .
^ "Daniel Alarcón" . Granta . Retrieved January 14, 2024 .
^ "Daniel Alarcón: 2004 Winner in Fiction" . The Whiting Foundation. Retrieved November 10, 2023 .
^ "The Mercantile Library • the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize" . www.mercantilelibrary.org . Archived from the original on May 31, 2008. Retrieved January 13, 2022 .
^ "fehlerseiten" (in German). Haus der Kulturen der Welt. March 16, 2022. Archived from the original on December 29, 2022. Retrieved April 24, 2023 .
^ "MacArthur Foundation Announces 2021 'Genius' Grant Winners" . The New York Times . September 28, 2021. Retrieved September 28, 2021 .
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