Enrique Vila-Matas Author & Editor

Enrique Vila-Matas is one of the great European storytellers. Translated into 37 languages, he has won numerous international literary prizes and been longlisted and shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Born in 1948 in Barcelona, he lived in Paris from 1974 to 1976 in a garret rented from Marguerite Duras, and now lives in Barcelona again. He is a founding Knight of the Order of Finnegans, which meets in Dublin every year to honour James Joyce.