Álvaro Enrigue

Álvaro Enrigue
Born	1969 (age 44–45) Mexico

Álvaro Enrigue (born 1969) is the award winning author of four novels and two books of short stories.^[1] He has been translated into multiple languages, including German, English and French. He lives in New York.

Life and work

In 1996, Enrigue was awarded the prestigious Joaquín Mortiz Prize for his first novel, La muerte de un instalador (Death of an Installation Artist). Since then it has been reprinted five times, and in 2012 it was selected as one of the key novels of the Mexican 20th century, and anthologized by Mexico's largest publishing house, Fondo de Cultura Económica. His books Vidas perpendiculares (Perpendicular Lives) and Hipotermia (Hypothermia) have also been widely acclaimed.

"Álvaro Enrigue’s excellent novel Vidas perpendiculares belongs to many literary traditions at once and shows a great mastery of them all (...) His novel belongs to Max Planck's quantum universe rather than the relativistic universe of Albert Einstein: a world of coexisting fields in constant interaction and whose particles are created or destroyed in the same act."

—Carlos Fuentes, El País^[2]

Both novels have been published by Gallimard. Hypothermia, which offers an "unflinching gaze towards 21st-century life and the immigrant experience", was published in 2013 in the USA and England by Dalkey Archive Press.^[3] His latest novel, Decencia (Decency), has received praises in Latin America's and Spain's most relevant publications.

In 2007, he was selected as one of the most influential contemporary writers in Spanish by the Hay Festival's Bogotá39. In 2009, he was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Residence Fellowship at the Bellagio Centre to finish the manuscript of his last novel, Decencia (Decency). In 2011 he became a fellow at the Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars of the New York Public Library, where he began working on his fifth novel.^[4]

On November 4, 2013, Enrigue was announced as the winner of the 31st Herralde Novel Prize, joining a distinguished list of authors from Spain and Latin America, including Álvaro Pombo, Enrique Vila-Matas, Antonio Ungar, Javier Marías, Juan Villoro, and Roberto Bolaño.^[5]

Selected publications

• Muerte súbita, Barcelona/Mexico City: Anagrama (2013)
• Decencia, Barcelona/Mexico City: Anagrama (2011)
• Vidas perpendiculares, Barcelona/Mexico City: Anagrama (2008)
• Hipotermia, Barcelona/Mexico City: Anagrama (2006)
• El cementerio de sillas, Madrid/Mexico City: Lengua de Trapo (2002)
• Virtudes capitales, Mexico City: Joaquín Mortiz (1998)
• La muerte de un instalador, Mexico City: Joaquín Mortiz (1996)

References

External links

• List of relevant reviews of Álvaro Enrigue's latest novel, Decencia

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Name	Enrigue, Álvaro
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Short description	Mexican author
Date of birth	1969
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