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  • EpicEnki and NinhursagAnonymous · -2000The Sumerian myth is set in Dilmun, which Assyriologists identify with present-day Bahrain.Literature
  • PoetryالذكرىIbrahim al-Urayyid · 1931not translated into EnglishThe collection opens the work of the man whom critics regard as the pioneer of Romanticism in the Gulf.Literature
  • Poetryأنين الصواريAli Abdallah Khalifa · 1969not translated into EnglishThe sea and the pearl divers of Bahrain, in a first collection that marked a turning point in the island's letters.Literature
  • PoetryالبشارةQassim Haddad · 1970not translated into EnglishThe collection appeared the year before Bahrain's independence and at once established a young self-taught poet.Literature
  • Poetryاعتذار للطفولةHamda Khamis · 1978not translated into EnglishThe author was the first woman to establish herself on the poetry scene of Bahrain.Literature
  • Poetryهذي أنا القبرةIman Asiri · 1982not translated into EnglishThe author is said to have introduced the prose poem into the poetry of Bahrain.Literature
  • Novelالتنور... غيمة لباب البحرينFareed Ramadan · 1994not translated into EnglishCritics have nicknamed the author the “novelist of identities”, for his work on the origins of the Bahrainis.Literature