Carlos Manuel Álvarez

Carlos Manuel Álvarez was born in Matanzas, Cuba in 1989. He studied journalism at the University of Havana. In 2016 he founded the independent Cuban magazine El Estornudo and his texts and opinion columns have been published in El Pais, The New York Times, The Washington Post and Internazionale. In 2017, he was selected by the Hay Festival to form part of the Bogotá 39 list, which brings together the 39 best Latin American writers under the age of 40, and published his first collection of journalistic chronicles, La tribu. Portraits of Cuba (Sexto Piso). In 2021, he received the Don Quixote Award for Journalism (part of the awards of the King of Spain) and was selected by Granta magazine among The Best Young Narrators in Spanish. He has published the novels Los caidos (Sexto Piso, 2018) and Falsa guerra (Sexto Piso, 2021). In 2022, he won the Premio de Crónica Anagrama/UANL Sergio González Rodriguez for the volume Los intrusos. In 2023, he won the Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe et du Tout-Monde 2023 for the French translation of his novel Los caidos. His books have been translated into several languages, including English, French, Italian, Arabic, and Croatian.