Álvaro Enrigue

Álvaro Enrigue is a prize-winning Mexican writer. His novel You Dreamed of Empires was a New York Times Top 10 Best Book of 2024 and a Guardian Book of the Year, and 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.

Books by Álvaro Enrigue

Now I Surrender

Álvaro Enrigue

A darkly funny and action-packed radical recasting of how the American West was 'won', from the visionary author of Guardian and New York Times Book of the Year You Dreamed of Empires

You Dreamed of Empires

Álvaro Enrigue

From the visionary author of Sudden Death, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story set in sixteenth-century Mexico

Sudden Death

Álvaro Enrigue

A funny and mind-bending novel about the clash of empires and ideas in the sixteenth century, told over the course of one dazzling tennis match