Author Mariana Enríquez and translator Megan McDowell speak about the International Booker Prize-longlisted The Dangers of Smoking in Bed.
Mariana Enríquez
Mariana Enríquez was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2021. She is a novelist, journalist and short story writer from Argentina
As well as Things We Lost in the Fire and The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, she is the author of a collection of travel writings, a novella and three novels. In 2019 her novel Our Share of Night was awarded the prestigious Premio Herralde de Novela. She is an editor at Página/12, a newspaper based in Buenos Aires.
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Mariana Enríquez populates contemporary urban Argentina with a macabre cast of crooked witches, unruly teenagers, homeless ghosts and hungry women
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