Carlos Manuel Álvarez

Carlos Manuel Álvarez (born 1989) is a Cuban writer. He was born in Matanzas and studied journalism at the University of Havana. 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 Gatopardo 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.[1][2]

In 2016 he was named as one of the 20 best Latin American writers at the Guadalajara Book Fair and the following year, he was included in the Bogota39 list of the most promising young Latin American writers.