Nuestra parte de noche by Mariana Enríquez

Under the military dictatorship that ran Argentina from 1976 to 1983, a latent fear permeated even the most mundane aspects of life. Anagrama.Mariana Enriquez’s childhood was marked by the dark absurdity of authoritarianism.

La hermana menor : un retrato de Silvina Ocampo (in Spanish).

Alguien camina sobre tu tumba : mis viajes a cementerios (in Spanish).

Translated as: Enríquez, Mariana (2017).

Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego (in Spanish).

Translated as: Enríquez, Mariana (2021).

Los peligros de fumar en la cama (in Spanish).

Translated as: Enríquez, Mariana (2023).

Cómo desaparecer completamente (in Spanish). This list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items. In 2019 she won the Herralde Prize for her fourth novel, Nuestra parte de noche (' Our Share of Night'). 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 in by Portobello Books in the U.K. Her stories have appeared in anthologies of Spain, Mexico, Chile, Bolivia and Germany. 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). She works as a journalist and is the deputy editor of the arts and culture section of the newspaper Página/12, and she dictates literature workshops.Įnriquez has published the novels: Bajar es lo peor (Espasa Calpe, 1995), Cómo desaparecer completamente (Emecé, 2004) and Nuestra parte de noche (Anagrama, 2019).

Mariana Enríquez holds a degree in Journalism and Social Communication from the National University of La Plata. This would inspire her to study journalism with a focus on rock music.

Enríquez would later move alongside her family to La Plata, where she became part of the local literary and punk scenes. Parts of her family hail from North-Eastern Argentina ( Corrientes and Misiones) and Paraguay. Mariana Enríquez ( Buenos Aires, 1973) is an Argentine journalist, novelist, and short story writer.Įnríquez was born in 1973 in Buenos Aires, and grew up in Valentín Alsina, a suburb in the Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area.

Nuestra parte de noche by Mariana Enríquez