Daniel Alarcón

Daniel Alarcón, born in 1977 in Lima, Peru, is a Peruvian-American novelist, short story writer, journalist, and radio producer best known for his fiction exploring themes of political violence, migration, and Latin American society. He is the author of novels like Lost City Radio (2007) and At Night We Walk in Circles (2013), and story collections including The King Is Always Above the People (2017), which was longlisted for the National Book Award. Alarcón co-founded Radio Ambulante, received a 2021 MacArthur Fellowship, and teaches at Columbia University.