senarist, film yönetmeni, dilci, çevirmen, roman yazarı, şair
Önemli eserleri
The Invention of Solitude, New York Üçlemesi, In the Country of Last Things, Şans Müziği, True Tales of American Life, Yanılsamalar Kitabı, Winter Journal, 4 3 2 1
Ödülleri
Princess of Asturias Literary Prize, Prix Médicis étranger, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, Honorary doctor of the University of Liège, honorary doctorate of the University of Copenhagen, Premio Arcebispo Xoán de San Clemente de novela estranxeira