Mariana Enríquez
Mariana Enríquez is an Argentine journalist, novelist, and short story writer.
Mariana Enríquez holds a degree in Journalism and Social Communication from the National University of La Plata. She works as a journalist and is the deputy editor of the arts and culture section of the newspaper Página/12 an she dictates literature workshops. She has published the novels: Bajar es lo peor, Cómo desaparecer completamente and Nuestra parte de noche. She has also written the short story books: Los peligros de fumar en la cama, Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego and the novelette Chicos que vuelven. Her stories have appeared in anthologies of Spain, Mexico, Chile, Bolivia and Germany.
In 2017 Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego was translated into English by Megan McDowell, and published as Things We Lost in the Fire in by Portobello Books in the U.K. and Hogarth in the U.S.
In 2019 she won the Herralde Prize for her book Our part of the night.
Non-Fiction
Novels
Short Fiction
- Illustrated by Laura Dattoli.
- Illustrated by Helia Toledo.
Collections
List of stories
Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected | Notes |
"The Intoxicated Years" | 2015 | Granta | Things We Lost in the Fire | translated by Megan McDowell |
"Spiderweb" | 2016 | The New Yorker | Things We Lost in the Fire | translated by Megan McDowell |
"The Well" | 2019 | The Southern Review | translated by Megan McDowell |