Mariana Enriquez

Mariana Enriquez (born Buenos Aires, 1973) is an Argentine writer, journalist and teacher associated with the so-called "new Argentine narrative". Her fiction falls mainly within horror and a Latin American Gothic that blends the urban, the popular and the supernatural. Her work has travelled well beyond Argentina and has been translated into more than thirty languages.

She grew up in Valentín Alsina, in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, in a family with roots in Corrientes and Galicia. In the late 1980s she moved to La Plata, where she discovered Stephen King, H. P. Lovecraft and rock music, and she graduated in journalism and social communication. Her first novel, Bajar es lo peor (1995), follows teenagers caught between alcohol, violence and love; it sold well though critics were largely unimpressed. She has since worked as a cultural journalist for Página/12, where she is deputy editor of the supplement Radar.

Her output moves between novels, short stories, chronicles and essays on the dark, the marginal and the countercultural. Things We Lost in the Fire (2016) brought her international attention, and Our Share of Night (2019), set during Argentina's last dictatorship, won the Premio Herralde. Her legacy lies in her influence on a new generation of Latin American writers who treat genre fiction as a space for political and literary questions.