Author of "Lost City Radio" Daniel Alarcon

Alarcón is a Peruvian-American author whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Granta, and Virginia Quarterly Review. His debut novel, Lost City Radio, was named a Best Book of the Year by critics across the country, and eventually translated into over a dozen languages. At Night We Walk in Circles, his most recent novel, was a finalist for the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Foundation Award. He has also written a collection of short stories, War by Candlelight. In 2012, Alarcón cofounded the Spanish language podcast Radio Ambulante, the first to cover Latin America with long-form narrative radio journalism, which NPR picked up in 2016. Currently, he is an assistant professor of broadcast journalism at Columbia Journalism School.

Q&A Fri, Sept 29, 11 am
Hollins Room, Wyndham Robertson Library

Sponsored by the Dee Hull Everist Visiting Speaker Series, departments of English and modern languages, and offices of cultural and community engagement and vice president for academic affairs. Hispanic/Latino Heritage Month Event.