At the top of the literary podium for 2024, there is little argument. First Leila Guerriero; then, everyone else.
By overwhelming majority, the Argentine writer leads with 'La llamada', an astonishing and horrifying portrait of the opponent of the Argentine dictatorship Silvia Labayru. The list of the best books of the year was made by critics, journalists and columnists of El Periódico and booksellers, and sums up the spirit of a season that, in a strange and perverse way, could have been the great year of the biography as a portrait of the century.
Because it is enough to turn the page and there is the X of 'Biografía de X', a total artist (it is said that he even left his mark on David Bowie's Berlin trilogy) that the American Catherine Lacey has 'invented' to compress and at the same time expand the history of the 20th century. Closing the list is 'Orquesta', a choral symphony by Miqui Otero that is also memories of a summer night and its multiple consequences.
