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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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Occupation Writer journalist radio producer
Age 47 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 5 March, 1977
Birthday 5 March
Birthplace Lima, Peru
Nationality Peru

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His wife is Carolina Guerrero

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Children León & Eliseo

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1977

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.

1999

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.

2006

His first book, War by Candlelight, was a finalist for the 2006 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award.

2007

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.

2008

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.

2009

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.

2010

In 2010, he was also recognized by The New Yorker as one of 20 promising writers under 40.

2011

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.

2013

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.

2015

He served as Associate Editor of the Peruvian magazine Etiqueta Negra until 2015.

2018

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.