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Daniel Alarcón

Daniel Alarcón was born in Lima, Peru in 1977 and raised in the southern United States. He is associate editor of Etiqueta Negra, a monthly magazine based in Lima. His novels include Lost City Radio and At Night We Walk in Circles, and his story collection, War by Candlelight, was a finalist for the 2006 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. He currently lives in Oakland, California, where he is the Distinguished Visiting Writer at Mills College.

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Fiction | Issue 118 padlock
Fiction | Issue 118 padlock

The Provincials

Daniel Alarcón

‘I'd been out of the Conservatory for about a year when my great-uncle Raúl died.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 117 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 117 padlock

The Ground Floor

Daniel Alarcón

‘I met Darin Rossi standing in a thick, gooey pool of fake blood, on an early-December night in Los Angeles.’

Fiction | Issue 113
Fiction | Issue 113

Olingiris

Samanta Schweblin

‘Sometimes she lied. She didn’t do it maliciously; she did it to pass the time.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 109
Essays & Memoir | Issue 109

Life Among the Pirates

Daniel Alarcón

‘Being pirated is the Peruvian equivalent of making the bestseller list.’

In Conversation | Issue 109
In Conversation | Issue 109

Daniel Alarcón | Interview

Daniel Alarcón & John Freeman

‘Granta editor John Freeman interviews Daniel Alarcón about book piracy in Peru.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 109
Essays & Memoir | Issue 109

The Inauguration

Daniel Alarcón

‘With few exceptions, presidents do not comment on or even recognize an individual loss like this one; they operate on another scale, and there is no room within their discourse for something so small.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 109
Essays & Memoir | Issue 109

Lost in Translation

Daniel Alarcón

‘It’s about the music of it. “It’s Hollywood,” Mario said, and assured me the same is true of political speech-making.’

Fiction | Issue 103 padlock
Fiction | Issue 103 padlock

The Bridge

Daniel Alarcón

‘There was no question we were underwater.’

In Conversation | Issue 103
In Conversation | Issue 103

Daniel Alarcón | Interview

Daniel Alarcón & Helen Gordon

‘The strangest parts of a story are not necessarily the fictional elements.’

Fiction | Issue 103
Fiction | Issue 103

The King is Always Above the People

Daniel Alarcón

‘It was the year I left my parents, a few useless friends, and a girl who liked to tell everyone we were married, and moved two hundred kilometres downstream to the capital.’

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