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Mariana Enríquez

Mariana Enríquez (born 1973) is an Argentine journalist, novelist, and short story writer. She is a part of the group of writers known as "new Argentine narrative". Her short stories fall within the horror and gothic genres and have been published in international magazines such as ''Granta'', ''Electric Literature'', ''Asymptote'', ''McSweeney's'', ''Virginia Quarterly Review'', and ''The New Yorker''.

Her fictional works include the short story collection ''Things We Lost in the Fire'' (2016), which received the Premis Ciutat de Barcelona 2017 in the category of Literature in Spanish; and the novel ''Our Share of Night'' (2019), for which she won the Premio Herralde de Novela 2019, the Premio Celsius 2019, the Grand prix de l'Imaginaire 2022, and others.

In journalism, Enríquez serves as deputy editor of the cultural supplement "Radar" of the Argentine newspaper ''Página/12''. She holds a degree in Journalism and Social Communication from the National University of La Plata. Her work encompasses chronicles, interviews, and essays on popular culture, rock music, literature, and social phenomena, with a style that reflects her interests in the dark, the marginal, and the countercultural. She has collaborated with various publications such as ''Rolling Stone Argentina'', ''Anfibia'', ''TXT'', ''La Mano'', and ''El Guardián'', as well as argentine Radio Nacional. She has compiled part of her journalistic and essayistic work in the volume ''El otro lado. Retratos, fetichismos, confesiones'' (2020, Ediciones UDP).

In 2025 she released ''Somebody is Walking on Your Grave'', a nonfiction collection of short essays and anecdotes about her visits to graveyards around the world. Provided by Wikipedia