Mariana Enriquez, born in Buenos Aires in 1973, is an Argentine novelist, short-story writer and journalist, associated with the “new Argentine narrative”. A culture journalist at Página/12, she published her first novel at twenty-one. Her story collections, blending horror and social realism, brought her international readers: Things We Lost in the Fire, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed (shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2021) and A Sunny Place for Shady People. Her novel Our Share of Night won the Premio Herralde in 2019.
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Mariana Enriquez, born in Buenos Aires in 1973, is an Argentine novelist, short-story writer and journalist, associated with the “new Argentine narrative”. A culture journalist at Página/12, she published her first novel at twenty-one. Her story collections, blending horror and social realism, brought her international readers: Things We Lost in the Fire, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed (shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2021) and A Sunny Place for Shady People. Her novel Our Share of Night won the Premio Herralde in 2019.
