Carlos Manuel Álvarez (born 1984) is a

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writer.

Early life and education

Alvarez was born in

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and studied journalism at the

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Writing career

In 2016, he cofounded the online magazine '' El Estornudo''. He has published journalistic and opinion pieces in outlets such as the ''New York Times'', ''BBC'' and ''Al Jazeera'', and his stories have appeared in ''

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'' and '' El Malpensante''. He won the 2013 Calendario Prize for his short story collection ''La tarde de los sucesos definitivos''. In 2017, he published ''La tribu. Retratos de Cuba'', a collection of journalistic pieces on Cuba. In 2016 he was named as one of the 20 best Latin American writers at the

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and the following year, he was included in the Bogota39 list of the most promising young Latin American writers. In 2020 he was arrested by the police in Havana, for reasons believed to be related to his journalistic activities and his participation in the

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Books

*''The Fallen'': ''A Novel'', 2019. Translated by

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, published by Fitzcarraldo Editions. *''The Tribe: Portraits of Cuba'', 2021, a collection of essays about post-Castro Cuba, translated by

, to be published by Fitzcarraldo Editions

References

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