Incroci di civiltà

Festival Internazionale
di Letteratura a Venezia
10 14 aprile 2024

Álvaro Enrigue Mexico

Saturday 13th April - 4.30 pm

Auditorium Santa Margherita - Emanuele Severino

Álvaro Enrigue

Converses with Margherita Cannavacciuolo (Ca' Foscari University of Venice) and Massimo Stella (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)

In collaboration with Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Culturali Comparati, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore

The conversation will be in Spanish

Álvaro Enrigue was born in Mexico City in 1969. He wrote five novels and two collections of short stories. With Muerte súbita (Sudden Death, 2015), translated in English by Natasha Wimmer, he won the Herralde Prize and the Elena Poniatowska Prize for the Ibero-American novel. He also published Ahora me rindo y eso es todo (“Now I Surrender and That's All”, 2021), La muerte de un instalador (“The Death of an Artist”, 2018), and Tu sueño imperios han sido (You Dreamed of Empires, 2024), also translated by Natasha Wimmer. He studied Latin American literature in the United States and currently lives and teaches in New York. His latest novel, Tu sueño imperios han sido (2023), the story of the meeting of Hernán Cortes and the Emperor Montezuma, of two incompatible worlds. The novel recounts the end of the natives’ dream of living together with those who will eventually exterminate them.

©Ahmed Gaber