Daniel Alarcón 作家和广播制作人

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Daniel Alarcón
Writer and Radio Producer | Class of 2021
Chronicling the social and cultural ties that connect Spanish-speaking communities across the Americas.


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Title
Writer and Radio Producer
Affiliation
Radio Ambulante Studios / Columbia University
Location
New York, New York
Age
44 at time of award
Area of Focus
Communications and Journalism, Fiction and Nonfiction Writing
Website
Radio Ambulante
Columbia University: Daniel Alarcón
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Social
Twitter
Published September 28, 2021
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ABOUT DANIEL'S WORK
Daniel Alarcón is a writer and radio producer exploring the social, cultural, and linguistic ties that connect people across Latin America and Spanish-speaking communities in the Americas. His powerful narrative storytelling—in English and Spanish, fiction and nonfiction, print and audio—chronicles individual lives and underreported topics against the backdrop of broader geopolitical and historical forces in the United States and Central and South America.

Writing in English, Alarcón sets most of his fiction in countries that are recognizable as Latin American but not explicitly identified. The novels Lost City Radio (2007) and At Night We Walk in Circles (2013) take place in the aftermath of political violence. Storytelling—in the form of, respectively, a radio program about and for people who disappeared during a civil war and a traveling theater troupe performing for villagers in the countryside—plays a prominent role in both novels as a means to cope with persistent trauma and build new communities. His most recent story collection, The King Is Always Above the People (2017), features people on the move and sometimes uses magical turns and settings to examine how migration alters perspective. Alarcón’s long-form journalism reflects his interests in Pan-American political and cultural issues. He has published deeply researched pieces on book piracy in Peru; on the 2019 civil unrest in Santiago, Chile; on life inside the notorious Peruvian prison Lurigancho; and on the collapse of Puerto Rico’s iconic Arecibo telescope. In 2012, he co-founded the Spanish-language podcast Radio Ambulante. Episodes are a mix of investigative journalism, interviews, and storytelling and cover a range of topics, from migrant communities in the United States and the refugee crisis in Venezuela, to youth culture in Honduras and “killer bees” in Brazil. The podcast, which is distributed by NPR, is a collaborative and transnational enterprise: stories hail from over twenty countries, and journalists throughout the Spanish-speaking world report and produce episodes. Alarcón both reports his own stories from across the region and plays an active role in training and mentoring the next generation of Spanish-speaking audio journalists. With its broad scope of topics and on-air participants, the podcast’s audience has grown exponentially, to more than eight million downloads a year, and it has become a widely used educational tool for journalism classes and Spanish-language learners.

Alarcón recently expanded his audio-journalism work with the Spanish weekly news podcast El hilo, where he serves as editorial director. El hilo engages reporters and experts across the Americas to unpack the most relevant news story from Latin America each week. Recent episodes have focused on the COVID-19 crisis in the Amazonian city of Manaus, the state of American democracy after the 2020 election, and overfishing near the Galapagos Islands. Adept in many types of media, Alarcón gives voice to the diverse experiences of Latin Americans and of Spanish speakers across borders.

BIOGRAPHY
Daniel Alarcón received a BA (1999) from Columbia University and an MFA (2004) from the University of Iowa. He was Distinguished Visiting Writer at Mills College (2006–2009) and an investigative reporting fellow at the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism (2012–2013). He joined the faculty of Columbia University in 2014 and is currently an assistant professor in the School of Journalism. Since 2012, he has served as co-founder and executive producer of Radio Ambulante Studios, and he is a contributing writer at The New Yorker, where he covers Latin America. His additional works of fiction include War by Candlelight (2005), and his short stories and articles have appeared in Granta, Harper’s Magazine, and Virginia Quarterly Review, among other publications.


Daniel Alarcón
作家和广播制作人 | 2021级
记录连接整个美洲西班牙语社区的社会和文化纽带。


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标题
作家和广播节目制作人
工作单位
安布兰特电台工作室/哥伦比亚大学
工作地点
纽约，纽约
年龄
获奖时44岁
重点领域
通讯和新闻, 小说和非小说写作
网站
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哥伦比亚大学。Daniel Alarcón
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9月28日发布, 2021
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关于丹尼尔的工作
丹尼尔-阿拉尔孔是一名作家和广播节目制作人，探索连接整个拉丁美洲和美洲西班牙语社区人民的社会、文化和语言纽带。他强有力的叙事故事--英语和西班牙语，小说和非小说，印刷品和音频--以美国和中南美洲更广泛的地缘政治和历史力量为背景，记录了个人生活和未被报道的话题。

阿拉尔孔用英语写作，他的大部分小说都是在那些可被识别为拉丁美洲但没有明确标识的国家进行的。小说《迷城电台》（2007年）和《夜里我们绕圈走》（2013年）的故事发生在政治暴力之后。讲故事的形式--分别是一个关于内战期间失踪的人的广播节目和一个为乡下村民表演的巡回剧团--在这两部小说中发挥了突出作用，作为应对持续的创伤和建立新社区的手段。他最近的故事集《国王总是在人民之上》（2017年）以人们的迁徙为主题，有时使用神奇的转折和设置来研究迁徙如何改变视角。Alarcón的长篇新闻报道反映了他对泛美政治和文化问题的兴趣。他发表了关于秘鲁盗版书籍、2019年智利圣地亚哥内乱、秘鲁臭名昭著的监狱Lurigancho内的生活以及波多黎各标志性的阿雷西博望远镜的倒塌的深入研究文章。2012年，他共同创办了西班牙语播客Radio Ambulante。该节目混合了调查性新闻、采访和讲故事，涵盖了一系列主题，从美国的移民社区和委内瑞拉的难民危机，到洪都拉斯的青年文化和巴西的 "杀人蜜蜂"。该播客由国家公共广播电台发行，是一个合作性的跨国企业：故事来自20多个国家，整个西班牙语世界的记者都在报道和制作节目。阿拉尔孔既报道他自己在整个地区的故事，又在培训和指导下一代西班牙语音频记者方面发挥积极作用。由于其广泛的主题和现场参与者，播客的听众成倍增长，每年的下载量超过800万次，它已成为新闻课和西班牙语学习者广泛使用的教育工具。

Alarcón最近在西班牙每周新闻播客El hilo中扩大了他的音频新闻工作，他在那里担任编辑主任。El hilo邀请了美洲各地的记者和专家，每周对拉丁美洲最相关的新闻故事进行解读。最近的节目集中在亚马逊城市马瑙斯的COVID-19危机，2020年选举后的美国民主状况，以及加拉帕戈斯群岛附近的过度捕捞。阿拉尔孔善于使用多种类型的媒体，为拉丁美洲人和讲西班牙语的人的不同经历发出声音。

个人简历
丹尼尔-阿拉尔孔在哥伦比亚大学获得学士学位（1999年），在爱荷华大学获得艺术硕士学位（2004年）。他是米尔斯学院的杰出访问作家（2006-2009年）和加州大学伯克利分校新闻学研究生院的调查报告研究员（2012-2013年）。他于2014年加入哥伦比亚大学的教师队伍，目前是新闻学院的助理教授。自2012年以来，他一直担任Radio Ambulante Studios的联合创始人和执行制片人，他是《纽约客》的特约撰稿人，报道拉丁美洲。他的其他小说作品包括《烛光里的战争》（2005年），他的短篇小说和文章出现在《格兰塔》、《哈珀杂志》和《弗吉尼亚季刊》等出版物上。