Daniel Alarcón





Daniel Alarcón

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January 01, 1977 in Lima, Peru

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Daniel Alarcón’s fiction and nonfiction have been published in The New Yorker, Harper's, Virginia Quarterly Review, Salon, Eyeshot and elsewhere. He is Associate Editor of Etiqueta Negra, an award-winning monthly magazine based in his native Lima, Peru. His story collection, War by Candlelight, was a finalist for the 2006 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award, and the British journal Granta recently named him one of the Best Young American Novelists. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Fulbright Scholarship (2001), a Whiting Award (2004), and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2007). He lives in Oakland, California, and his first novel Lost City Radio was published in February 2007.


Average rating: 3.67 · 1,278 ratings · 295 reviews · 13 distinct works
Lost City Radio
3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 813 ratings — published 2007 — 17 editions
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War by Candlelight: Stories
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 289 ratings — published 2005 — 11 editions
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The Secret Miracle: The Nov...
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Bogota 39
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2008
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El rey siempre está por enc...
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El Rey Siempre Está Por Enc...
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“You don’t sound like a scientist, you sound like a poet.”

Rey smiled, “Can I be both?”

But you’d rather be a poet.”

Who wouldn’t?” he said.”
Daniel Alarcón

“Are you a politician?
I hate politicians, he said. And, in any case, there's no such thing anymore: only sycophants and dissidents.”
Daniel Alarcón, Lost City Radio

“Luz's manner of speaking made it clear that she had no idea what she might say next. It wasn't that she made things up, strictly speaking--only that facts were merely a point of departure for her.”
Daniel Alarcón

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