Cuban writer Carlos Manuel Álvarez is the author of three books: the short-story collection La tarde de los sucesos definitivos (2014); the collection of chronicles La tribu: retratos de Cuba (2017); and, most recently, the novel Los caídos (forthcoming in English translation by Frank Wynne for Fitzcarraldo Editions). His articles and chronicles have appeared in The New York Times, El Malpensante, Letras Libres, Gatopardo, La Nación, Clarín, Huffington Post México, GQ, and Vice. In 2017 he was named to the Bogotá39, a list of the Latin America’s 39 most promising writers under 40. He is cofounder of the online magazine El Estornudo.