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Daniel Alarcón (born 1977 in Lima, Peru) is an author who lives in Oakland, California, where he is the Distinguished Visiting Writer at Mills College and Visiting Writer at California College of the Arts.

Daniel Alarcón’s work has been published in The New Yorker, Harper's, Granta, Virginia Quarterly Review and elsewhere, and anthologized in Best American Non-Required Reading 2004 and 2005. His non-fiction has appeared in Salon.com and Eyeshot, and he is Associate Editor of the Peruvian magazine Etiqueta Negra. He edited a portfolio for the magazine A Public Space on the writing of Peru. He is a former Fulbright Scholar to Peru.

Alarcón, a native of Peru, was raised, from the age of 3, in Birmingham, Alabama, U.S., and is an alumnus of Indian Springs School in Shelby County, Alabama. He was selected for the Telluride Association Summer Program, and later earned a bachelors degree in anthropology from Columbia University and a masters from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has studied in Ghana and taught in New York City.

His first book War by Candlelight was a finalist for the 2006 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award. He was recently awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lannan Fellowship, nominated "One of 21 Young American Novelists" under 35 by Granta magazine, and one of 39 under 39 Latin American Novelists.

His debut novel, Lost City Radio, was published January 30, 2007. Both of his books have been translated into Spanish. Lost City Radio has also been translated into Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Dutch and Greek (2008). The German translation of Lost City Radio received the International Literature Award (25,000 EUR to the author; 10,000 EUR to the translator, Ms. Friedericke Meltendorf) from the Haus der Kulturen der Welt.

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