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.

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Average rating: 3.67 · 1,278 ratings · 295 reviews · 13 distinct works

	Lost City Radio 3.59 avg rating — 813 ratings — published 2007 — 17 editions	My rating:
	War by Candlelight: Stories 3.89 avg rating — 289 ratings — published 2005 — 11 editions	My rating:
	The Secret Miracle: The Novelist's Handbook 3.54 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Bogota 39 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Ciudad de Payasos by Daniel Alarcón, Sheila Alvarado (Illustrator) 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	El rey siempre está por encima del pueblo 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Unknown Book 8102171 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	El Rey Siempre Está Por Encima Del Pueblo 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009	My rating:
	Guerre Aux Chandelles 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	The Aztec Palimpsest: Mexico In The Modern Imagination by Daniel Alarcón, Daniel Cooper-Alarcon 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:

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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

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“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

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“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

tags: facts , lies , speaking , stories , storytelling , truth

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