Daniel Alarcón

Daniel Alarcón ( born 1977 in Lima, Peru) is an American writer of Peruvian origin in Oakland, California, lives. He has worked at the local Mills College as a guest writer.

Alarcón came at the age of three years in the U.S. and grew up in a Spanish-speaking middle-class family in Birmingham (Alabama ) on. At the age of 24 he returned to Lima for some time back in the slum of San Juan de Lurigancho, to teach there photography. Some of the experience gained there were inspiration for stories in the collection ' War by Candlelight '. Alarcón has earned a bachelor's degree in anthropology from Columbia University. He is co-editor of appearing in Lima literary magazine Etiqueta Negra. His debut novel, published in 2007, Lost City Radio has been translated into numerous languages ​​and was awarded the 2009 International Prize for Literature of the House of World Cultures in Berlin.

List of Works

  • City of clowns. Tales from the American Friederike Meltendorf. Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, Berlin 2012. 192 pp. ISBN 9783803132451

Awards

  • 2004 - Whiting Writers' Award
  • 2007 - Guggenheim Fellowship and a Lannan Literary Fellowship
  • 2008 - National Magazine Award for South America in the 21st Century in The Virginia Quarterly Review
  • 2009 - International Literature Prize, Berlin
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