Mariana Enríquez

Enríquez was born in 1973 in Buenos Aires, and grew up in Valentín Alsina, a suburb in the Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area. Parts of her family hail from North-Eastern Argentina (Corrientes and Misiones), Paraguay, and Galicia. Enríquez would later move alongside her family to La Plata, where she became part of the local literary and punk scenes. This would inspire her to study journalism with a focus on rock music. ==Career==

Mariana Enríquez holds a degree in Journalism and Social Communication from the National University of La Plata. She is a journalist and the deputy editor of the Arts and Culture section of Página 12, and she teaches at literature workshops. Enríquez has published four novels, including: Bajar es lo peor (Espasa Calpe, 1995), Cómo desaparecer completamente (Emecé, 2004) and Nuestra parte de noche (Anagrama, 2019) and Éste es el mar (Literatura Random House, 2017). She is also the author of two short story collections, Los peligros de fumar en la cama (Emecé, 2009) and 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 by Portobello Books in the U.K. and Hogarth in the U.S. McDowell also translated the earlier Los peligros as The Dangers of Smoking in Bed in 2021. In 2019, she won the Premio Herralde for her fourth novel, Nuestra parte de noche (translated as Our Share of Night). In 2024 she won the Platinum Konex Award for her work in the last decade in Argentina. In June 2025, Netflix announced a miniseries in production based on Enríquez's short stories, to be titled My Sad Dead and directed by Pablo Larraín. ==Personal life==

Mariana Enríquez is married to Paul, who is originally from Western Australia. They met while Paul was on a six-year journey cycling around the world to raise awareness of the debt crisis in the global south. The couple married under a concrete highway overpass in Buenos Aires. In 2025, Paul and Enríquez relocated to Launceston, Tasmania. ==Bibliography==