Daniel Alarcón

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Daniel Alarcón
Daniel Alarcón, October 29, 2007
Born	1977 Lima, Peru
Nationality	Peru, United States
Official website http://danielalarcon.com/

Daniel Alarcón (born 1977 in Lima, Peru) is an author who lives in Oakland, California, where he is the Distinguished Visiting Writer at Mills College.

Daniel Alarcón’s work has been published in The New Yorker, Harper's, Virginia Quarterly Review and elsewhere, and anthologized in Best American Non-Required Reading 2004 and 2005. His non-fiction has appeared in Salon.com and Eyeshot, and he is Associate Editor of the Peruvian magazine Etiqueta Negra. He edited a portfolio for the magazine A Public Space on the writing of Peru. He is a former Fulbright Scholar to Peru.

Alarcón, a native of Peru, was raised, from the age of 3, in Birmingham, Alabama, U.S. and is an alumnus of Indian Springs School in Shelby County, Alabama. He holds a bachelors degree in anthropology from Columbia University and a masters from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has studied in Ghana and taught in New York City.

His first book War by Candlelight was a finalist for the 2006 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award. He was recently awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lannan Fellowship, nominated "One of 21 Young American Novelists" under 35 by Granta magazine, and one of 39 under 39 Latin American Novelists.{fact}

His debut novel, Lost City Radio, was published January 30, 2007. Both his books have been translated into Spanish. Lost City Radio will be also published in French and Italian in 2008.

[edit] Bibliography

• War by Candlelight: Stories (2005) ISBN 0060594780 (hdbk), ISBN 0060594802 (pbbk)
• "What kind of Latino am I?", Salon.com May 24, 2005
• "Let's Go, Country: The new Latin left comes to Peru"PDF (1.19 MB), Harper's Magazine September 2006
• Lost City Radio (2007) ISBN 0060594799

[edit] Awards

• Recipient of the Whiting Writers' 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).

[edit] External links

• Daniel Alarcón website
• Hernandez, Daniel (2007). "Between the Lost and the Found: Daniel Alarcón and his novel of the disappeared", LA Weekly interview with Mr. Alarcon, March 22, 2007.
• Fay, Sarah (2007). "Missing," review of Lost City Radio from the New York Times, March 25, 2007.