Some of the selected columns deal with episodes of his life about drugs, alcohol, sexual and sentimental relationships. The texts, selected and edited by the Argentine journalist Leila Guerriero with the aim of demonstrating that there are communicating vessels between her journalistic work and her novels, has ended up being a "kind of non-fiction biography," she says.
The Argentine author also just published El otro lado (Anagrama, 2022), a vast compilation of her journalistic work since she began her career in the 1990s. Whether a social worker, a policewoman or a tour guide, the protagonists struggle to sponsor socially invisible beings, delving into the weight of guilt, compassion, cruelty, the difficulties of coexistence, and a terror as deep as it is plausible. In Things We Lost in the Fire, the author compiles eleven stories the reader is forced to forget himself to follow the vicissitudes and investigations of bodies that disappear or reappear at the least expected moment.
From there, and her many years working as a journalist in her country, Enríquez has grown into one of the most powerful female literary voices in Latin America, as well as one of the main referents of horror and fantasy literature, a genre little explored in the continent.Īmong her most recognized works stand out the book of short stories Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego (2016), ( Things We Lost in the Fire), which solidified her as the most relevant Argentine horror writer of today, and the novel Nuestra parte de noche (2019), Our Share of Night: A Novel, for which she won the Herralde Novel Prize.
Born in 1973 into a family of readers in Buenos Aires, Mariana Enríquez grew up influenced by the stories and superstitions told by her grandmother.
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