Enrique Vila-Matas

Enrique Vila-Matas is a Spanish writer born in Barcelona in 1948, known for books that mix genres and have won awards. He is often tipped as a favourite for the Nobel Prize in Literature, and he is a founding Knight of the Order of Finnegans, a Dublin group that honours James Joyce's Ulysses each year. His titles include Mac's Problem, a work of metafiction about a man who keeps a diary he never expects anyone to read, set in the heat of Barcelona, and Never Any End to Paris.