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Daniel Alarcón (born 1977 in Lima, Peru) is an American author who lives in San Francisco, California; he has been a Distinguished Visiting Writer at Mills College and a Visiting Writer at California College of the Arts. In Spring 2013, he was a Visiting Scholar at the UC Berkeley Investigative Reporting Program.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://investigativereportingprogram.com/ )〕 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''. He is Associate Editor of the Peruvian magazine ''Etiqueta Negra'', and he edited a portfolio for the magazine ''A Public Space'' on the writing of Peru in 2007. He is a former Fulbright Scholar to Peru, and a 2011 Artist in Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts. His novel ''At Night We Walk in Circles'' was published by Riverhead Books in October 2013. An avid soccer player, Alarcon is renowned for diving with the slightest touch. == Biography == 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. He earned a bachelor's degree in anthropology from Columbia University and a master's 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. 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.hayfestival.com/bogota39/en-index.aspx/ )〕 In 2010, he was also recognized by the ''New Yorker'' as one of 20 promising writers under 40. Alarcón's debut novel, ''Lost City Radio'', was published 2007, and has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Dutch, Greek, and is forthcoming in 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. 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. In 2011, with partners Carolina Guerrero, Martina Castro and Annie Correal, he founded Radio Ambulante, a Spanish language podcast telling Latin American stories. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Daniel Alarcón」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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