Mariana Enríquez

The author of The Dangers of Smoking in bed on the importance of the short story in Argentinian literature; growing up under a dictatorship, and the horror stories that shaped her as a writer

In her International Booker Prize-shortlisted collection, Mariana Enríquez populates contemporary urban Argentina with a macabre cast of crooked witches, unruly teenagers, homeless ghosts and hungry women

As terrifying as they are socially conscious, the 12 short stories in The Dangers of Smoking in Bed press into the unspoken with bracing urgency