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AQ Top 5 Storytellers: Daniel Alarcón

By Lidia Hernández-Tapia

The Peruvian-American author and Radio Ambulante narrator speaks up for Latin Americans living on society's margins.

This article is adapted from AQ's most recent print issue | See the rest of our Top 5 Latin American Storytellers | Leer en español

A recurring childhood memory haunts Daniel Alarcón: the night in 1989 when he heard that his uncle, a labor union activist in Peru, had disappeared and would almost certainly never come home. For Alarcón...

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