Mariana Enriquez

Mariana Enriquez (Buenos Aires, 1973) has published four novels —Bajar es lo peor (1995), Cómo desaparecer completamente (2004), Chicos que vuelven (2010), and Nuestra parte de noche (2019, coming in 2022) which won the famous Premio Herralde— and two collections of short stories, Los peligros de fumar en la cama (2009, 2017, in English January 2021) and Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego (2016) which sold to 20 international publishers before it was even published in Spanish and won the Premio Ciutat de Barcelona (2017). Enriquez’s short stories have been published in The New Yorker, Freeman's, Granta, McSweeney’s, Electric Literature and Asymptote. One story is a finalist this year for the Shirley Jackson Award. She has also published a collection of chronicles on her travels to certain cemeteries (Alguien camina sobre tu tumba) and a profile on Silvina Ocampo (La hermana menor).