Álvaro Enrigue facts for kids
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Álvaro Enrigue
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Enrigue at the 2016 Hay Festival
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| Born | Álvaro Enrigue Soler August 6, 1969 Guadalajara, Mexico |
Álvaro Enrigue is a talented writer from Mexico. He was born on August 6, 1969. He writes many different kinds of books, including novels, short stories, and essays. He is also a professor.
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Early Life and Education
Álvaro Enrigue grew up in a family with four brothers. His father was a lawyer from Jalisco, and his mother was a chemist who came from Barcelona. Soon after Álvaro was born, his family moved to Mexico City because of his father's job.
He studied journalism at the Universidad Iberoamericana. Later, he even taught literature there. When he was young, he started working as an editor and writer for cultural magazines. These included Vuelta, which was started by the famous writer Octavio Paz. He also worked for Letras Libres. Later, he was an editor at important publishing houses like Fondo de Cultura Económica and the Secretariat of Culture.
Writing Career and Achievements
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In 1996, when Álvaro Enrigue was 27, he won a big award called the Joaquín Mortiz Prize. He won it for his first novel, La muerte de un instalador (which means Death of an Installation Artist). This book has been printed many times. In 2012, it was chosen as one of the most important Mexican novels of the 20th century.
His other books, Vidas perpendiculares (Perpendicular Lives) and Hipotermia (Hypothermia), have also received a lot of praise. The famous writer Carlos Fuentes said that Vidas perpendiculares was an excellent novel. He noted that it showed great skill in many different writing styles.
Hypothermia was published in the United States and England in 2013. This book looks closely at life in the 21st century and the experiences of immigrants. His 2011 novel, Decencia (Decency), was also highly praised in Latin America and Spain.
In 2007, Álvaro Enrigue was named one of the most important Spanish-speaking writers by the Hay Festival's Bogotá39. In 2009, he received a special fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation. This helped him finish writing his novel, Decencia. In 2011, he became a fellow at the Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars at the New York Public Library. There, he started working on his fifth novel.
On November 4, 2013, Enrigue's novel Muerte súbita (Sudden Death) won the 31st Herralde Novel Prize. This is a very important award. He joined a list of many famous authors from Spain and Latin America who had won it before.
Besides being a writer, Álvaro Enrigue is also a professor. He teaches Romance Languages and Literatures at Hofstra University. He earned his Ph.D. in Latin American Literature from the University of Maryland, College Park. His books have been translated into many languages, including English, German, French, Czech, and Chinese.
Personal Life
Álvaro Enrigue lives in the Hamilton Heights neighborhood in New York City.
Selected Books
- Virtudes capitales, 1998
- El cementerio de sillas, 2002
- Vidas perpendiculares, 2008
- Decencia, 2011
- Muerte súbita (Sudden Death), 2013
- Un samurái ve el amanecer en Acapulco, 2013
- Ahora me rindo y eso es todo, 2018
- Tu sueño imperios han sido (You Dreamed of Empires), 2022
Articles and Reviews
Álvaro Enrigue also writes articles and reviews for different publications. For example, he wrote a review called "The Discovery of Europe" for The New York Review of Books. This review was about a book that explored how Indigenous Americans traveled to and experienced Europe. He highlighted that this book helped us understand the beginning of the modern world in a new way.
See also
In Spanish: Álvaro Enrigue para niños
