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Interview | Daniel Alarcón | Granta Magazine

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‘The strangest parts of a story are not necessarily the fictional elements.’ Born in Lima in 1977, Alarcón was raised in Birmingham, Alabama. After teaching posts at a public school in New York and then in Peru, Alarcón attended the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and completed a collection of short stories, War by Candlelight, which was published in 2005. He is also an associate editor of the Lima-based magazine Etiqueta Negra, which he describes as ‘Harper’s but written in Spanish, obsessed with culture instead of politics and with much better design’. When we spoke, Alarcón was at home in Oakland, California, packing for a trip to Buenos Aires to meet the Peruvian artist Sheila Alvarado with whom he’s collaborating on a new project – City of Clowns – a Spanish-language graphic novel. A new short story by Daniel Alarcón, ‘The Bridge’, appe

Interview | Daniel Alarcón | Granta Magazine Skip to main content Daniel Alarcón | Interview Daniel Alarcón & Helen Gordon ‘The strangest parts of a story are not necessarily the fictional elements.’ Things went well for Daniel Alarcón last year. His debut novel, Lost City Radio , was named a best book of 2007 by the Washington Post and the LA Times , and he was recognized as one of Granta ’s Best of Young American Novelists. Born in Lima in 1977, Alarcón was raised in Birmingham, Alabama. After teaching posts at a public school in New York and then in Peru, Alarcón attended the Iowa Writer’s

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