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Daniel Alarcón was born on 5 March, 1977 in Lima, Peru, is a Peruvian-American novelist, journalist and radio producer. Discover Daniel Alarcón's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 47 years old?
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Writer
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47 years old |
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Pisces |
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5 March 1977 |
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5 March |
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Lima, Peru |
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Peru
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He is a member of famous novelist with the age 47 years old group.
Daniel Alarcón Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Daniel Alarcón's Wife?
His wife is Carolina Guerrero
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Carolina Guerrero |
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León & Eliseo |
Daniel Alarcón Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Daniel Alarcón worth at the age of 47 years old? Daniel Alarcón’s income source is mostly from being a successful novelist. He is from Peru. We have estimated Daniel Alarcón's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Pending |
| Salary in 2023 |
Under Review |
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novelist |
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Timeline
Daniel Alarcón (born March 5, 1977, in Lima, Peru) is a Peruvian-American novelist, journalist and radio producer.
He is co-founder, host and executive producer of Radio Ambulante, an award-winning Spanish language podcast distributed by NPR.
Currently, he is an assistant professor of broadcast journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and writes about Latin America for The New Yorker.
He began his career writing fiction, publishing stories in magazines like The New Yorker, Granta, Virginia Quarterly Review and elsewhere, and his short stories have been widely anthologized.
He earned a bachelor's degree in anthropology from Columbia University in 1999 and a master of fine arts degree in fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 2004.
He has studied in Ghana and been a public school teacher in New York City.
He was a high school classmate of novelist John Green.
His first book, War by Candlelight, was a finalist for the 2006 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award.
Alarcón's debut novel, Lost City Radio, was published 2007, and has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Dutch, Greek, Italian, Serbian, Turkish, and Japanese.
The German translation of Lost City Radio by Friedericke Meltendorf received the International Literature Award from the Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
In 2008, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lannan Fellowship, named a "Best Young American Novelist" by Granta magazine, and one of 39 under 39 Latin American Novelists.
In 2009, he published a collection of short stories, El rey está siempre por encima del pueblo (The king is always above the people), and the following year, "Ciudad de payasos", a graphic novel adapted from his 2003 story City of Clowns, with illustrations by Peruvian artist Sheila Alvarado.
In 2010, he was also recognized by The New Yorker as one of 20 promising writers under 40.
He is a former Fulbright Scholar to Peru, and a 2011 Artist in Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts.
In 2011, he co-founded Radio Ambulante with his wife Carolina Guerrero, along with Camila Segura, Martina Castro and Annie Correal.
His novel At Night We Walk in Circles was published by Riverhead Books in October 2013.
In 2013, his second novel, At Night We Walk in Circles, was published to critical acclaim.
Alarcón resides in Oakland, California, and works at Mills College as a Distinguished Visiting Writer.
He served as Associate Editor of the Peruvian magazine Etiqueta Negra until 2015.
His most recent story collection, The King is Always Above the People, was long-listed for the National Book Award in 2018, and won the 2019 Clarke Prize in Fiction.
He received the MacArthur 'Genius Grant' in 2021.
Alarcón, a native of Peru, was raised from the age of 3, in Birmingham, Alabama, and is an alumnus of Indian Springs School.
As a high schooler, he attended the Telluride Association Summer Program.
