Daniel Alarcon
Daniel Alarcon is an author who lives in Oakland, California, where he is the Distinguished Visiting Writer at Mills College.
Daniel Alarcons work has been published in The New Yorker, ''Harper's, Virginia Quarterly Reviewand 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.
Alarcon, 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.
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", ''Harper's MagazineSeptember 2006
Lost City Radio'' (2007) ISBN 0060594799Awards
Recipient of the Whiting Writers' Award in 2004 for fiction
Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship 2007
One of 21 Young American Novelists
One of 39 under 39 Latino American Novelists
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 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).
External links
Daniel Alarcon website
Hernandez, Daniel (2007). "Between the Lost and the Found: Daniel Alarcon 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.
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