Carlos Manuel Álvarez
Carlos Manuel Álvarez (Cuba 1989) is a journalist and writer. He is the director of the Cuban online magazine El Estornudo and regularly contributes to The New York Times, El País, and The Washington Post. In December 2016 he was elected among the best twenty Latin American writers of the 80s at the Guadalajara Book Fair in Mexico; in May 2017 he was included in the Bogota39 list of the best 39 Latin American writers under 40 organized by the Hay Festival every 10 years; in April 2021 he was chosen by a panel of judges for inclusion in Granta’s second Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists issue and in the same month, he received the Don Quijote Prize for his article “Tres niñas cubanas”, published in El Estornudo; the Don Quijote Prize is a category within the King of Spain International Journalism Awards. His first collection of journalistic works, La tribu, was published in 2017 and his first novel, Los caídos, in 2018, both by Sexto Piso.
“His ability to join his look, the content and the form in just one bundle of the highest quality make him one of the best journalists in the continent.”
“Reading La Tribu was, more than anything, before than anything, a great pleasure: the delight of reading a writing. Not just an interesting look, not just a well narrated story; a writing. And also, it is Cuba there.”
BY CARLOS MANUEL ÁLVAREZ:
Los intrusos
NONFICTION, 2023
Falsa guerra
NOVEL, 2021
Los caídos
NOVEL, 2018
La tribu
NONFICTION, 2017