Spanish Enrique Vila-Matas wins prize Book Fair in Guadalajara – El Universal (Venezuela)

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Monday September 7, 2015 4:28 PM

The Spanish writer Enrique Vila-Matas Monday won the FIL Literary Award in Romance Languages ​​2015 Mexican Guadalajara Book Fair, the largest Spanish-speaking.

Vila-Matas” is one of the authors most have contributed to renew the literature of Europe and Latin America, “he said the jury unanimously to grant this award, which will be delivered next November 28 at the fair in Guadalajara, Jalisco (west).

Rómulo Gallegos Prize Winner, the Medici, the Herralde and Gregor von Rezzori, Vila-Matas (Barcelona, ​​1948) is the author of an extensive work translated into thirty languages ​​highlighting titles such as Bartleby & Co. ( 2001), El mal de Montano (2003), Doctor Pasavento (2006) , Dublinesca (2010) or Rangers Abyss (2007).

“His work captivates with its critical intelligence, humor and irony,” said FIL jury prize, formed by Brazilian João Cezar de Castro Rocha, German Ottmar Ette, the Spanish Joaquin Garrigós and Patricia Martinez and Argentine-Canadian Alberto Manguel.

For the jury, who chose their candidate from among 42 entries from 14 countries, the concept of writing Vila-Matas “like game with the reader, while manager of the work, it is part of the great tradition of (Miguel de) Cervantes, (Laurence) Sterne and (July) Cortazar”.

Last year, FIL prize was awarded to the Italian Claudio Magris and before has distinguished figures such as Chilean Nicanor Parra (1991), Argentine Juan Gelman (2000), the Spanish Juan Goytisolo (2004), the Mexican Carlos Monsivais (2006), Colombia Fernando Vallejo (2011) or the Peruvian Alfredo Bryce Echenique (2012).