ÁLVARO ENRIGUE was a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library and a Fellow at the Princeton University Program in Latin American Studies. He has taught at New York University, Princeton, the University of Maryland, and Columbia. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Believer, The White Review, n+1, the London Review of Books, and El País, among others. This novel was awarded the prestigious Herralde Prize in Spain and the Elena Poniatowska International Novel Award in Mexico, and has been translated into many languages. Enrigue was born in Mexico and lives in New York City.
NATASHA WIMMER’s translations include The Savage Detectives and 2666 by Roberto Bolaño. She lives in New York City.