{"id":46935,"date":"2025-03-26T21:00:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T01:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=46935"},"modified":"2025-03-25T16:27:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T20:27:31","slug":"first-word-on-horrors-mariana-enriquez-interview-women-in-horror-month-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/26\/first-word-on-horrors-mariana-enriquez-interview-women-in-horror-month-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"First Word on Horror’s Mariana Enriquez Interview [Women in Horror Month 2025]"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Meet First Word on Horror’s Mariana Enriquez:<\/p>\n

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Please introduce yourself:<\/strong>
\nMy name is Mariana Enriquez, I\u2019m a writer from Argentina. I love horror, but I do other things too. I also work as a journalist. I\u2019m 51 and lately I think it\u2019s important to share my age.<\/p>\n

What is horror to you, what makes a work of art one in the horror genre?<\/strong>
\nHorror is a language and a form of communication. We have told each other horror stories as long as we could talk and communicate. It\u2019s a way to deal with life and death. It can become art at any stage: as an oral history, as a sign of the times, as beauty, and as a way of looking at personal and social ills. And as fun too, because humor is horror\u2019s twin.<\/p>\n

What made you want to work in horror?<\/strong>
\nReading great horror and gothic writers from early on like Ray Bradbury, Borges, Stephen King and Shirley Jackson. But honestly, I don\u2019t think this a question you can answer rationally. I just like horror, it moves me, and that\u2019s where my imagination lives.<\/p>\n

Where do you get your inspiration?<\/strong>
\nFrom everyday events, from my own twisted desires and fantasies, and from other art \u2013lately specially from the visual arts. And alot from oral history, for example: stories told on the internet, on the radio, on podcasts, things that people share in passing, and urban exploration of haunted places. And history of course, which is full of trauma and ghosts.<\/p>\n

What would you like your legacy to be in the genre (or elsewhere)?<\/strong>
\nI don\u2019t really believe in legacy. I would like to be read when I\u2019m dead, just like any other writer, but that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n

What is Women in Horror Month to you and why is it still important this many years later?<\/strong>
\nWe don\u2019t really celebrate it or have anything like this in the Spanish speaking world, so it\u2019s my first. I didn\u2019t know you have a month every year!<\/p>\n

Who are some of the Women in Horror who you look up to and who do you want to bring attention to in your field or others?<\/strong>
\nIn no specific order: journalists like Desire\u00e9 De Fez (who knows everything about horror movies and used to work at the Sitges Film Festival), the Spanish author Pilar Pedraza (whose work needs to be translated more widely), authors like M\u00f3nica Ojeda and Mar\u00eda Fernanda Ampuero from Ecuador, Elaine Vilar Madruga from Cuba, movie director Laura Casab\u00e9 from Argentina, French film director Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Australian film directors Natalie Erica James and Jennifer Kent, and Korean writer Bora Chung.<\/p>\n

What are you currently working on that you can tell us about?<\/strong>
\nA novel and a non fiction book about my reading, about how I taught myself to read. I don\u2019t want to jinx the novel however. I have been working on it for some time now and am nearly ready to finish it.<\/p>\n

Where can readers keep up with you?<\/strong>
\nMy Instagram handle is @marianaenriquez1973. It\u2019s my only social media account. My latest book is a collection of short stories called A Sunny Place for Shady People. You can read my books in English via Hogarth in the US or Granta in the UK and Australia. Their catalogues are here: https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/authors\/2136029\/mariana-enriquez\/ https:\/\/granta.com\/contributor\/mariana-enriquez\/
\n(The book covers are quite different so that\u2019s cool!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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