4th Estate

Daniel Alarcón

Daniel Alarcón was born in Lima, Peru, in 1977 and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. He is the author of the story collection War by Candlelight, a finalist for the 2006 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award, and Lost City Radio, winner of the 2009 International Literature Prize. His writing has appeared in Granta, n1, McSweeney’s and Harper’s, and he has been named of the New Yorker’s 20 best writers under 40. He is Executive Producer of Radio Ambulante, a Spanish-language storytelling podcast, and he lives in San Francisco, California.