Álvaro Enrigue is the prize-winning Mexican writer of Now I Surrender, Longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature; You Dreamed of Empires; and Sudden Death, among others. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the London Review of Books, El País, and n+1, among other publications. A former Fellow at the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center and at Princeton University, he teaches Latin American Literature at Hofstra University and lives in New York City.

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