Daniel Alarcón: Lost City Radio

In 2007, Daniel Alarcón published Lost City Radio his debut novel. Since then, he was recognized in many places as an excelent writer. He was raised in the United States and this novel was written in English and then translated in many languages including Spanish. He is now considered by the critics as one of the better young Peruvian writers .This year, House of World Cultures in Berlin gave him a prize.

The man who mistook his wife for a hat

When I was taking the neurology course in the UPCH, Dr. Cabrera mentioned a book called The man who mistook his wife for a hat. I remember that day because of my interest of the connection between Medicine and Art. So I was looking for the book many months in Lima. I found it in the library of the Asociacion Cultural Peruano Britanica. It's an amazing book and I wanted to know more about Oliver Sacks, the author and realized that he wrote a very famous book called Awakenings. This book inspired a play with the same name Awakenings starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams. On June 2006 Oliver Sacks was invited to a meeting in Lima by the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru. I knew about his presence in Peru reading the Moleskine Literario. I couldn't go to listen him because I was out of Peru.

Today I was looking for information about Michael Nyman (composer of The Piano movie) and I found he wrote an opera based in the book The man who mistook his wife for a hat. So, now I'm looking for the videos or audios of this opera on the Internet.

Here there is an interview to Oliver Sacks