Enrique Vila-Matas

Edition 2023

(Barcelona, 1948). Author of some thirty works, including novels, essays and miscellaneous narrative. Master of metaliterature, always punctuated with humour. Some of his novels. La asesina ilustrada (Tusquets, 1977 y Lumen, 2005); in Anagrama; Historia abreviada de la literatura portátil, a mixture of fiction and essay (1985), Extraña forma de vida (1995), Bartleby y compañía (2000) El mal de Montano (2002), París no se acaba nunca (2003), Doctor Pasavento (2005); in Seix Barral: Dublinesca (2010), Aire de Dylan (2012), false memoirs of the writer Juan Lancastre, Kassel no invita a la lógica (2014), Mac y su contratiempo (2017), Esta bruma insensata (2019) and Montevideo (2022). Among his many awards: the Rómulo Gallegos, the Herralde Prize, the Ennio Flaiano International Prize and the RAE Prize.