Daniel Alarcón





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Daniel Alarcón

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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: 3.63 · 2,161 ratings · 410 reviews · 12 distinct works · Similar authors
Lost City Radio
3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 1,023 ratings — published 2007 — 22 editions
War by Candlelight: Stories
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 364 ratings — published 2005 — 13 editions
The Secret Miracle: The Nov...
3.51 of 5 stars 3.51 avg rating — 133 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions
Bogota 39
4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2008
Ciudad de Payasos
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2011
El rey siempre está por enc...
3.27 of 5 stars 3.27 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions
Rara Avis: The art of Danie...
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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