#  Writers Speak | A Conversation with Álvaro Enrigue 

 



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####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **October 19, 2026** 

 06:00PM - 07:30PM EDT 

 



 

*Photo Credit: Ahmed Gaber*

### Speaker: Álvaro Enrigue

#### About the Speakers

[**Álvaro Enrigue**](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2038521/alvaro-enrigue/) is a prize-winning Mexican writer whose most recent novels include [*Now I Surrender*](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/608984/now-i-surrender-by-alvaro-enrigue-translated-by-natasha-wimmer/) and [*You Dreamed of Empires*](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722363/you-dreamed-of-empires-by-alvaro-enrigue-translated-by-natasha-wimmer/)*.* His work has appeared in *The New York Times*, the *London Review of Books*, *El País*, and *n+1*, among other publications. A former Fellow at the Cullman Center and at Princeton University, he teaches Latin American Literature at Hofstra University and lives with his family in New York City.

#### [About the Series: Writers Speak](/writers-speak "Writers Speak")

[Writers Speak](https://mahindrahumanities.harvard.edu/writers-speak), convened by Duncan White, brings significant contemporary writers to speak on campus, with the intention of fostering literary conversation.



 

 



 

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