Karina Sainz Borgo: A Venezuelan library – kudupinter World News Network

The 21st century has been eventful and the Venezuelan literature accompanied this process from the country and the diaspora. Summarizing it in 360 words is more reckless than thought-provoking. But I’ll try. The days we live in deserve it. In the early years … of the century, novels such as “Calletania” (2000) by Israel Centeno, “Malena de Cinco Mundos” (2000) and “Nocturama” (2006) by Ana Teresa Torres, “Lluvia” (2002) by Victoria de Stefano, “An Afternoon with the Bells” (2004) by Juan Carlos Méndez Guédez and “Falke” (2004) by Federico Vegas stands out. In 2006, “The Disease” by Alberto Barrera Tyszka won the Herralde Prize and, in 2015, the Tusquets with “Patria o muerte”. In 2007, Boris Izaguirre became a Planeta finalist with “Villa Diamante”

The essay genre has shining moments, such as the Anagrama Gustavo Guerrero Prize for his research on “La catira”, by Camilo José Cela, names also stand out like Luis Enrique Pérez-Oramas, Moisés Naím and more recently Marina Gasparini with “Eloquence of the Look” (2025), Carlos Lizarralde with “The Great Venezuela: The Long History of How Everything Collapsed” and Gisela Kozak with “Park in Ruins”. Venezuela and the Left.” Between 2003 and 2013, the work of Rafael Osío Cabrices, Sergio Dahbar and Milagros Socorro was consolidated. In the 2010s, narrators Héctor Torres, Camilo Pino, Keila Vall, Juan Carlos Chirinos and Eduardo Sánchez Rugeles emerged.

poetry is growing in Spain with Igor Barreto, Yolanda Pantin, Luis Enrique Pérez-Oramas and Leonardo Padrón. They are joined by Carmen Verde Arocha and Edda Armas. Also Antonio López Ortega, Oscar Marcano and José Balza, as well as Juan Carlos Mendez Guedez -it is worth emphasizing ‘Les Mallettes’- and Elisa Lerner expands the narrative universe. Such Yolande Pantin as Véronique Jaffe They receive the Casa de América Poetry Prize and Rafael Cadenas receives both the García Lorca Prize – Yolanda Pantin won it in 2020 – and the Cervantes Prize.

Since 2016, the narrative He achieved greater international visibility with “La Nuit” and “Simpatia”, by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón. To this scene belongs “Malasangre” by Michelle Roche Rodríguez; “When will we return” by María Elena Morán and “The Peacemaker” by Francisco Suniaga. In non-fiction, “When Time Stopped” by Ariana Neumann, an international bestseller, stands out. The period culminates with “The Jaguar’s Dream” by Miguel Bonnefoy, awarded in France and translated into Spanish by Libros del Asteroid.

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