[1] In 2013, the Guadalajara International Book Fair chose him as part of Latinoamérica viva, its annual meeting for emerging Latin American literary voices, and, in 2021, he was included in a list of ten essential Peruvian writers (“diez autores peruanos imprescindibles”) at the beginning of the 21st Century by the Spanish daily newspaper El País.
[2] In 2011, he moved to the United States, obtaining an MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish from New York University, and a Ph.D. in Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures from the Graduate Center, CUNY.
[4] In 2021, the Spanish daily newspaper El País, chose Iparraguirre as one of the ten essential contemporary Peruvian writers (“diez narradores peruanos imprescindibles”)[5] In 2022, he co-edited with Francisco Joaquín Marro Esta realidad no existe (This Reality Does Not Exist), a collection of 14 science fiction short stories by Peruvian writers.
According to Carlos Amador: "In Peruvian writer Alexis Iparraguirre's short story collection, El inventario de las naves (2005), the short stories "Orestes" and "Sábado" manifest the specific role that racialized, lumpenproletarian life, ecological collapse, and biomechanical engineering, in the form of hallucinogens or mutants, have in developing literature's reflective and predictive capacity.
Set in a Peru stripped down to its barest national markers, Iparraguirre's stories write about the way in which everyday life, comprising Peruvian economic contradictions and colonial racial hierarchies, is marked in the logics of enfleshing into discourses of subjectivity.