Álvaro Enrigue (Author) Álvaro Enrigue is a prize-winning Mexican writer whose most recent novel is You Dreamed of Empires . 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. Natasha Wimmer (Translator) Natasha Wimmer 's translations include Álvaro Enrigue's You Dreamed of Empires and Sudden Death and Roberto Bolaño's The Savage Detectives and 2666 . She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.