In collaboration with SLLL (School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics at ANU), the Spanish Studies Program, AILASA (the Association of Iberian and Latin American Studies of Australasia), and the ANU Latin American Students' Association for ANU Latin America Week – International Booker Prize shortlisted author Mariana Enriquez will be in conversation with Dr. Fabricio Tocco on her latest collection of short stories A Sunny Place for Shady People and will be discussing her extensive body of work.
Nobel Prize for Literature winner Kazuo Ishiguro recently hailed the Argentinian writer Mariana Enriquez as “the most exciting discovery I’ve made in fiction for some time”. Join us and find out why!
About Mariana Enriquez
Mariana Enriquez is an award-winning novelist and short story writer from Argentina. Her works have been translated into over 20 languages. Known for her gothic and macabre stories, interspersed with incisive social critique, Enriquez’s style is often likened to Stephen King or Margaret Atwood. Her short story collection The Dangers of Smoking in Bed (2021, Hogarth, translated by Megan McDowell) was short listed for the international Booker Prize, and her novel Our Share of the Night (2019, Hogarth, translated by Megan McDowell) won the Herralde Prize in 2019, one of the most prestigious literary awards of the Spanish-speaking world.
About Dr. Fabricio Tocco
Dr. Fabricio Tocco is an Argentine-Brazilian writer, musician, and lecturer at the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, at the ANU. He is the author of the novel Parece diciembre (2025, Equidistancias) and two academic books, Latin American Detectives against Power (Lexington, ICFA Book Prize 2022) and Precarious Secrets (2025, University of Texas Press), which inspired the documentary Secretos Precarios (SBS on Demand, 2025). He has released three albums, including Las aventuras perdidas (Club del Disco, 2022), a musical adaptation of the book of the same name by Alejandra Pizarnik.
About the Event
Registration is required for this event.
LINK:
https://events.humanitix.com/in-conversation-with-mariana-enriquez
Books will be available for purchase and signing at the event.
Accessible parking spaces directly below the Harry Hartog ANU Bookshop are available should you require them. Kambri ANU / Parking
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