Mariana Enriquez: "I would give the Nobel Prize for Literature to Stephen King"

The Argentine writer Mariana Enríquez. Massimiliano Minocri

Mariana Enriquez (Buenos Aires, 1973) got many people to take horror literature seriously since she achieved success with

(Herralde Award, 2019).

If at the beginning of the year she recovered her first novel in Spain,

, written three decades ago, at the age of 19, this fall goes on sale (like her previous works, in Anagrama)

.

Published in 2020 in Chile by Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales and under the care of Leila Guerriero, the volume brings together texts on authors such as Sylvia Plath, Emily Brönte and Nick Cave.

Also about Argentine youth in the early years of democracy, drugs or abortion.

What book made you a reader?

by Emily Brontë.

And as a writer?

Stephen King.

What is the last one you liked?

by Stephen Graham Jones;

and I can't stop mentioning

by Laura Fernández, because she hadn't had such a good time for years.

And one that could not finish?

In general, I finish them all because I'm obsessive, even if I don't like them.

But the fifth of the saga of Karl Ove Knausgård I left it.

Have you ever had to close a book out of fear?

Yes, but I reopened it.

Do you recommend three horror novels for people without fear?

But being afraid is part of the experience!

To see: the complete stories of Robert Aickman;

by Valentine Penrose;

by Patrick McGrath.

If they don't scare you, at least all three are so well written they'll scare you.

Do you have any hobby when writing?

No. Have many books around maybe.

And in my house or at least not during trips.

What is the latest “interesting” graveyard you have discovered?

The non-cemetery of Santiago de Compostela, the Bonaval park.

The niches are still there, I think they are empty.

What does a writer learn working in a newspaper?

That you have to finish a text.

And a "journalist" writing novels?

That, whenever possible, a text should always be well written.

If she weren't a writer, she would have liked to be…

Music.

What is the movie you have seen the most times?

by Todd Haynes.

If you had to use a song or piece of music as a self-portrait, what would it be?

by Belle & Sebastian.

What is socially overrated?

Get offended.

Who would you give the next Cervantes Prize to?

To Pilar Pedraza.

And the Nobel Prize for Literature?

To Stephen King.

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