Tucson Festival of Books

Álvaro Enrigue


Álvaro Enrigue is a prize-winning Mexican writer whose most recent novel is "You Dreamed of Empires." 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 Cullman Center and at Princeton University, he teaches Latin American Literature at Hofstra University and lives with his family in New York City. 

Awards: Herralde Prize in Spain, the Elena Poniatowska International Novel Award in Mexico, and the Barcelona Prize for Fiction

Communities: Hispanic or Latinx


Books:
Now I Surrender
A Novel
Nuestras Raices
Penguin Group
March 2026
ISBN 9780593084076
464 pages

You Dreamed of Empires
A Novel
Nuestras Raices
Penguin Group
December 2024
ISBN 9780593544808
240 pages