Born in 1989, Carlos Manuel lvarez is a journalist and author. In 2013 he was awarded the Calendario Prize for his collection of short storiesLa tarde de los sucesosdefinitivos and in 2015 he received the Ibero-American Journalism Prize, Nuevas Plumas, from the University of Guadalajara. In 2016 he co-founded the Cuban online magazineEl Estornudo. He regularly contributes to theNew York Times,Al Jazeera,Internationale,BBC World,El MalpensanteandGatopardo. In December 2016 he was selected among the best twenty Latin American writers born in the 1980s at the Guadalajara Book Fair in Mexico and in May 2017 he was included in the Bogota39 list of the best Latin American writers under 40. In 2021 he was named inGranta'sBest of Young Spanish-Language Novelists list.The Tribe, his first book, appeared in 2017 with Sexto Piso. He is also the author of two novels,The Fallen(Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2019), andFalsa Guerra(forthcoming with Fitzcarraldo Editions).