![]() ![]() So, I wonder if we could start with your childhood in Buenos Aires, and in particular, the kind of stories you grew up with. She spoke with Bongani Kona about the aftermath of Argentina’s violent past and her English-language debut, Things We Lost in the Fire, among other things.īongani Kona for The JRB: A lot of the stories in Things We Lost in the Fire have an unsettling, strange and mysterious quality to them (and we’ll get to that), but beneath that is a detectable love for storytelling. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, Freeman’s, McSweeney’s, Electric Literature and the Virginia Quarterly Review. She is the author of two novels, two short story collections, a biography of the legendary Argentinian writer Silvina Ocampo, a chronicle on cemeteries and a novella. ![]() Mariana Enríquez, a writer and editor based in Buenos Aires, will be at the Open Book Festival in Cape Town in September. ![]()
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