Mariana Enríquez

Mariana Enríquez
Born	1973 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Nationality	Argentine
Alma mater	National University of La Plata
Occupation(s)	Journalist, Novelist, and Short Story Writer
Known for	Author of Los peligros de fumar en la cama (Emecé, 2009) and the novelette Chicos que vuelven (Eduvim, 2010)

Mariana Enríquez (Buenos Aires, 1973) 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 (Espasa Calpe, 1995), Cómo desaparecer completamente (Emecé, 2004) and Nuestra parte de noche (Anagrama, 2019). She has also written the short story books: Los peligros de fumar en la cama (Emecé, 2009), Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego (Editorial Anagrama, 2016) and the novelette Chicos que vuelven (Eduvim, 2010). 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.

Bibliography

Non-Fiction

• Enríquez, Mariana (2014). Alguien camina sobre tu tumba: Mis viajes a cementerios. Galerna. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)

• Enríquez, Mariana (2018). La hermana menor: Un retrato de Silvina Ocampo. Anagrama. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)

Novels

• Enríquez, Mariana (2004). Cómo desaparecer completamente. Emecé. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)

• Enríquez, Mariana (2014). Bajar es lo peor. Galerna. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)

• Enríquez, Mariana (2017). Éste es el mar. Random House. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)

• Enríquez, Mariana (2020). Nuestra parte de noche. Anagrama. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)

Short Fiction

• Enríquez, Mariana (2015). Chicos que vuelven. Eduvim. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help) Illustrated by Laura Dattoli.

• Enríquez, Mariana (2019). Ese verano a oscuras. Páginas de Espuma. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help) Illustrated by Helia Toledo.

Collections

• Enríquez, Mariana (2009). Los peligros de fumar en la cama. Emecé. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)

• Enríquez, Mariana (2016). Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego. Anagrama. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)

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

Work in Translation

• Enríquez, Mariana (2017). Things We Lost in the Fire. Translated by Megan McDowell. Portobello Books. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
• Enríquez, Mariana (2021). The Dangers of Smoking in Bed. Translated by Megan McDowell. Penguin Random House. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)