Álvaro Enrigue (Mexico, 1969) won the Prize of First Novel Joaquín Mortiz in 1996 with the death of an installer. In this collection he published Hypothermia (2005): "Stories that also include a reflection on writing. Not only is it weaving, section by section, a kind of novel, but every story knows ramifications. A few stories all of them of great height and fascinating originality. A real surprise "(J. A. Masoliver Ródenas, La Vanguardia); "Hypothermia is not one of those fake story books that circulate out there disguised as novels, but neither is a conventional novel; is an amphibious book by nature: neither Mexican nor gringo, nor novel nor book of stories. Enrigue transcends nationalities and describes a nation of zero citizens "(Guadeloupe Nettel, Lateral); Perpendicular Lives (2008): "Excellent novel ... I believe that the narrative strategy of this clever author culminates in pages of a powerful power" (Carlos Fuentes); andDecencia (2011): "Updates the Mexican novels of the Revolution and returns an ambition not without irony and disenchantment" (Patricio Pron, El País); "A script that points to Jorge Luis Borges, to Roberto Bolaño (especially the disenchanted and disgruntled Bolaño from the insufferable gaucho), Malcolm Lowry and Carlos Fuentes, although the region of Enrigue has nothing transparent" (Mónica Maristain, Page / 12). His latest and most recent title is the brave middle class. Money, letters and cursilería.