Enrique Vila-Matas
Enrique Vila-Matas (born March 31, 1948 in Barcelona ) is a Spanish writer .
Enrique Vila-Matas has written ten novels since 1973, as well as numerous short stories and essays, which have been translated into 39 languages and have received multiple awards. Vila-Matas now lives and works in Barcelona. In France he was made Knight of the Legion of Honor in 2007 and Officier des Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2013.
Works (selection)
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Historia abreviada de la literatura portátil (1985).
- Dada from the Suitcase - The Abbreviated History of Portable Literature . Translated from the Spanish by Orlando Grossegesse . Popa, Munich 1988.
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Una casa para siempre (1988).
- A House Forever - Memoirs of a Ventriloquist . Translated from the Spanish by Orlando Grossegesse. Popa, Munich 1989. ISBN 3-925-81817-0 .
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Suicidios ejemplares (1991).
- Model suicides . Translated from the Spanish by Veronika Schmidt. edition suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1995. ISBN 3-518-11969-9 .
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Una estrecha tumba para tres ; in: Hijos sin hijos (1993).
- A grave for three . In: Travelers on the wrong track . Five stories from Spain. Löwenzahnverlag, Innsbruck 1993. ISBN 978-3900521219 .
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Extraña forma de vida (1997).
- The strange coincidences of life . Translated from the Spanish by Petra Strien. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2002. ISBN 978-3-312-00305-1 .
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Bartleby y compañia (2000).
- Bartleby & Co . Translated from the Spanish by Petra Strien. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2001. ISBN 3-312-00288-5 .
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El mal de Montano (2002).
- Risks & side effects . Translated from the Spanish by Petra Strien. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2004. ISBN 3-312-00338-5 .
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Paris no se acaba nunca (2003).
- Paris has no end . Translated from the Spanish by Petra Strien. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2005. ISBN 3-312-00357-1 .
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Doctor Pasavento (2005).
- Doctor Pasavento . Translated from the Spanish by Petra Strien. Nagel & Kimche in Hanser Verlag, Munich 2007. ISBN 978-3-312-00402-7 .
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Dublinesca (2010).
- Dublinesk . Translated from the Spanish by Petra Strien. The Other Library, Berlin 2013. ISBN 9783847703419 .
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Kassel no invita a la lógica (2014).
- Kassel: a fiction . Translated from the Spanish by Petra Strien. The Other Library, Berlin 2017. ISBN 9783847703884 .
Essays
- Get rid of theories. The art of waiting and the star maps of the novel of the future. In: Lettre International 113, pp. 63-69, summer 2016. ISSN 0945-5167
- Bastian Schneider. An intertextual takes the floor on the edge of the last cliff. In: Lettre International 118, pp. 35-39, autumn 2017. ISSN 0945-5167
- Marienbad electric. Memories of festivals of the spirit with Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. In: Lettre International 120, pp. 98-113, spring 2018. ISSN 0945-5167
Prizes and awards
The author has received awards for some of his works. These include:
- 2000: For Bartleby & co, the City of Barcelona Prize (Premio Ciudad de Barcelona), the Prix du Meilleur livre étranger and the Prix Fernando Aguirre-Libralire
- 2001: For El viaje vertical the Premio Rómulo Gallegos
- 2002: For El mal de Montano the Premio Herralde de Novela
- 2003: For El mal de Montano the Spanish Critics' Prize ( Premio Nacional de la Critica ), the Prix Médicis du livre étranger and the Premio del Círculo de Críticos de Chile
- 2006: For El mal de Montano the Premio Internazionale Ennio Flaiano
- 2006: For Doctor Pasavento the Premio Fundación Lara and the Prize of the Royal Spanish Academy ( Premio de la Real Academia Española )
- 2007: For El viajero más lento the Premio Internazionale Elsa Morante
- 2009: For Doctor Pasavento the Premio Internazionale Mondello Città di Palermo
- 2010: Premio Leteo 2010 (León (España))
- 2010: For Dublinesca the prix Jean Carrière Nimes
- 2011: The Premio Bottari Lattes Grinzane for Dublinesca
- 2012: For Aire de Dylan the premio Argital Bilbao
- 2012: For Exploradores del abismo the Premio Gregory of Rezzori
- 2015: The FIL Prize for his oeuvre
Web links
Commons : Enrique Vila-Matas - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Literature by and about Enrique Vila-Matas in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Enrique Vila-Matas in the catalog of the library of the Instituto Cervantes in Germany
- Website Enrique Vila-Matas (Spanish)
- Website of the Hanser literary publishers about Vila-Matas
- Margit Klingler-Clavijo: Literary Outsiders , Deutschlandfunk, April 21, 2008
- The english jump Enrique Vila-Matas: An English Page
- Review in DeutschlandRadio Kultur about Doctor Pasavento
- Colm Toibin. Flights of the imagination: Colm Tóibín on books about Spain - Telegraph
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Vila-Matas, Enrique |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 31, 1948 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Barcelona |