Mariana Enriquez Walks on Your Grave

photo: Sebastian Freire

“The creative act is DARING. I need that— to be wholly on my knees with fiction. Sometimes when fiction tries too much to be like reality or like every day life, I find it uncomfortable. Uncomfortable in the sense that I feel, Don’t you have more in you? Don’t you want to play more? Don’t you want to go further? You really want to give me this only? ”

Mariana Enriquez is a writer based in Buenos Aires. She has published in English the novel Our Share of Night and three story collections, A Sunny Place for Shady People, Things We Lost in the Fire, and The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, which was a finalist for the International Booker Prize, the Kirkus Prize, the Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Fiction. Her most recent book is a work of nonfiction: Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave.