Enrique Vila-Matas is an award-winning Spanish writer and filmmaker, who was born in Madrid and lives there. He has published more than twenty books of fiction and non-fiction, as well as a number of collections of short stories and poetry. He has received the Prince of Asturias Award for Letters and the Guggenheim Fellowship for Fiction. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages
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He is the recipient of fellowships from the American Academy in Berlin and the NEA. Vila-Matas's first novel, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Vintage, 1998), was a finalist for The Man Booker Prize. His latest novel, The Case Against Love (Vintage, 2012), was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist in fiction in 2013.
He is currently touring with his latest novel, A Very Large Expanse of Ground (Vintage, 2015).