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Mariana Enríquez
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Argentine journalist and author (born 1973) known for horror and Latin American Gothic short stories and for cultural journalism.
Biography
Mariana Enríquez (born 1973) is an Argentine journalist, novelist, and short story writer associated with the group called the "new Argentine narrative." Her fiction often falls within horror and Latin American Gothic, and her short stories have appeared internationally in magazines such as Granta, Electric Literature, Asymptote, McSweeney's, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The New Yorker.
In addition to fiction, Enríquez works in journalism as deputy editor of the cultural supplement "Radar" at the Argentine newspaper Página/12. She holds a degree in Journalism and Social Communication from the National University of La Plata and has published chronicles, interviews, and essays on popular culture, rock music, literature, and social phenomena. Her nonfiction and essayistic work has been collected in El otro lado (2020), and in 2025 she released the nonfiction collection Somebody is Walking on Your Grave.
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Books by Mariana Enríquez
Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego
Things We Lost in the Fire (2016) is a haunting collection of short stories set in Argentina; the book received the 2017 Premio Ciutat de Barcelona for Literature in Spanish.