Montevideo

Enrique Vila-Matas (b. 1948) is an acclaimed Spanish novelist, critic, filmmaker, and journalist. He is the author of numerous novels, stories, and essay collections, and his works have been translated into more than thirty languages. Sophie Hughes and Annie McDermott have translated some fifty books from Spanish and together were nominated for the 2024 National Book Award in Translation.

“Enrique Vila-Matas, famous for his erudite metafiction, has further solidified his giant status with Montevideo.”—Jason Gordy Walker, Asymptote“A dazzling, intriguing novel . . . translated, with verve and resourcefulness, by Sophie Hughes and Annie McDermott.”—Michael Kerrigan, Times Literary Supplement“Montevideo is a beautiful, infinite novel of self-examination where, as usual with Enrique Vila-Matas, everything is real and nothing is true.”—Adam Thirlwell, author of The Future FuturePraise for Enrique Vila-Matas:  “Arguably Spain’s most significant contemporary literary figure.”—New Yorker  “A writer who has no equal in the contemporary landscape of the Spanish novel.”—Roberto Bolaño  “Enrique Vila-Matas has pioneered one of contemporary literature’s most interesting responses to the great Modernist writers.”—Paris Review  “Enrique Vila-Matas is playful and funny and among the best Spanish novelists.”—Colm Tóibín  “Vila-Matas’s wildly original novels are all investigations of whether or not originality in fiction is still possible; every nook and cranny of literary history is explored and interrogated, the margin of every great novel frantically scribbled in.”—Dublin Review of Books