The best literature is being written by women, or at least women are writing literature that is just as interesting and attractive as men. This is a fact that is confirmed by the sales figures and the success among literary critics that many new authors have been achieving in recent years. The last period has been full of great literary works written by women.
Women writers have always been published, but in society they had never enjoyed the same place that men did, until now. In the current context, literature written by women more and more is being taken into account, with greater publication and marketing. A literature that allows us to discover new universes, come into contact with a different construction of the characters and handle different sensibilities.
The best books of the last year
Una de las obras norteamericanas que más se ha vendido en los últimos años es “The Collected Schizophrenias”, de la autora Esme Wejun Wang. Although it is not fiction, the writer narrates with a severe and prosaic prose what it is living with schizophrenia in a collection of essays. The heartbreaking account of a still stigmatized and unknown disease, together with the sincerity that emanates from its pages, means that his speech has reached all kinds of audiences, who know how to appreciate a novel and honest writing.
On the other hand, the play "Maid" by Stephanie land It has also agreed with the critics and the general public, becoming a "best-seller". The play is a perversion of the American dream, the story of a lower-class woman who does not meet the expectations of idyllic American life and who becomes a servant. The author is a journalist by training, so it is a very descriptive and concise prose, which is engaging for the same reason.
In Spanish territory, authors such as Bethlehem Gopegui, whose literary work remains one of great coherence and ingenuity since his first novel more than 25 years ago, or Laura ferrero with his novel “What are you going to do the rest of your life”. This piece poses the questions that most plague today's youth about what to do with their lives, how to settle or continue without doing so, as well as facing the disappearance of parents. In Spanish literature written by women, many of these issues are being rethought.
Other recommended works include "Get in trouble: Stories", a collection of stories by the author Kelly link, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, or the great book "You Know You Want This", by Kristen roupenian, which runs through a series of stories based on strong and discordant female characters.
Next Christmas or the next birthday when you have to buy a gift, perhaps buying a book written by one of these authors can be a great success. A new literature from new points of view and with new narratives.