Álvaro Enrigue is a Mexican novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and academic. He is the author of six novels, three books of short stories, and one book of essays.

Octavio Paz Lozano was a Mexican philosopher, poet, and diplomat. For his body of work, he was awarded the 1977 Jerusalem Prize, the 1981 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1982 Neustadt International Pri