OPINION | The 25 essential books of these 25 years, according to Wendy Guerra

25 books to celebrate the anniversary of CNN en Español 1:43 Editor’s note: Wendy Guerra is a French-Cuban writer and a contributor to CNN en Español. Her articles have appeared in media around the world, such as El País, The New York Times, the Miami Herald, El Mundo and La Vanguardia. Among her most outstanding literary works are “Underwear” (2007), “I was never the first lady” (2008), “Posing naked in Havana” (2010) and “Everyone leaves” (2014). Her work has been published in 23 languages. The comments expressed in this column belong exclusively to the author. See more at cnne.com/opinion (CNN Spanish) — I give our followers, viewers, readers and Internet users a very special trip: the review of the stories, topics and characters that have bewitched me and that came to light during the last 25 years in prince editions or reissues. It is a very personal list that goes through the length and breadth of the time that CNN en Español has accompanied us, informed and enlightened us, making us witnesses of what is happening in the world, transmitting and communicating the great novel of reality in our language, the Castilian. It is curious to note that a good part of the complex plots of these books, written or translated into Spanish, referred to in America, Europe or Asia, were, precisely, news broadcast live, during these years by this chain.
Any of these works, poetry or prose, are part of the imaginary of a transcendental period, a stage where wars, births, festivities, tragedies, natural catastrophes, scientific, sports, artistic events and even terrorist attacks are followed by the media in real time. real. The literature of the image is also part of the history of the times in which we live. This is my list 1997-2022 1997- “Report against myself”. Eliseo Alberto, Alfaguara 1998- “Birds of America”. Lorrie Moore, Salamander 1999- “In search of Klingsor”. Jorge Volpi, Seix Barral 2000- “The goat party”. Mario Vargas Llosa, Alfaguara 2001- “Soldiers of Salamina”. Javier Cercas, Tusquets 2002- “Live to tell the tale”. Gabriel García Márquez, Mondadori 2003- “The eagle’s chair”. Carlos Fuentes, Alfaguara 2004- “2666”. Roberto Bolaño, Alfaguara 2005- “The men who did not love women.” Stieg Larsson, Destination 2006- “Tropical Animal”. Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, Anagrama 2007- “The inner life of Martin Frost”. Paul Auster, Anagrama 2008- “Birds in the mouth”. Samanta Schweblin, Random House 2009– The Moomin Family in Winter. Tove Jansson, Siruela 2010- “Summer”. JM Coetzee, Mondadori 2011- “The map and the territory”. Michel Houellebecq, Anagrama 2012- “Fake Papers”. Valeria Luiselli, Sixth Floor 2013- “A woman in Berlin”. Anonymous, Anagrama 2014- “Up to here”. Wislawa Szymborska, Bartleby Publishers 2015- “Quicksand”. Henning Mankell, Tusquets 2016- “Manual for cleaning women”. Lucía Berlin, Alfaguara 2017- “Solenoid”. Mircea Cărtărescu, Impedimenta 2018- “Horizontal vertigo”. Juan Villoro, Almadía 2019- “The flap”. Philippe Laçon, Anagrama 2020- “The bad ones”. Camila Sosa Villada, Tusquets 2021- “First person singular”. Haruki Murakami, Tusquets 2022- “A house of one’s own”. Deborah Levy, Random House