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• PoetryElegías de varones ilustres de IndiasJuan de Castellanos · 1589not translated into EnglishThe conquest of the Indies told in octaves by a priest who had taken part in it, man by man and town by town.LiteraturePublic domain
• ChronicleHistorical Accounts of the Conquests of Tierra FirmeNoticias historiales de las conquistas de Tierra FirmePedro Simón · 1627The Muisca narratives and the ceremony of the gilded chieftain, recorded by a Franciscan.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelIngermina o la hija de CalamarJuan José Nieto · 1844not translated into EnglishIn the 1530s, on the coast that will become Cartagena, the conquest of an Indian village seen from the side of the defeated, divided between those who negotiate and those who refuse.Literature
• NovelManuelaEugenio Díaz · 1858not translated into EnglishIn a village of the hot country, a peasant woman stands up to the local notable who covets her, under the gaze of a visitor from Bogotá with ideas.LiteraturePublic domain
• NarrativeLas tres tazasJosé María Vergara y Vergara · 1863not translated into EnglishChocolate, coffee, then tea: three cups to tell, in three stages, the passage from colonial Santafé to the anglicised Bogotá of the mid-century.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelMaria: A South American RomanceMaríaJorge Isaacs · 1867Two cousins raised together fall in love on a hacienda in the Cauca, and one must leave for Europe.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryCuentos pintados para niñosRafael Pombo · 1867not translated into EnglishStories in verse for children, which all of Colombia still recites.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryCantos populares de mi tierraCandelario Obeso · 1877not translated into EnglishThe songs of the rowers of the Magdalena River, written in their pronunciation and followed by their Castilian version.Literature
• PoetryNocturnoJosé Asunción Silva · 1894not translated into EnglishA night walk for two, then the same walk alone: a poem of shadows written after the death of a sister.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelFrutos de mi tierraTomás Carrasquilla · 1896not translated into EnglishIn Medellín, the rise of a family of shopkeepers and the manoeuvres of a rich young man, in a neighbourhood where everything is known.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryRitosGuillermo Valencia · 1899not translated into EnglishPoems and translations presented together, in a polished language where exoticism clothes a sadness.Literature
• PoetryDe mi villorrioLuis Carlos López · 1908not translated into EnglishSonnets that take the provincial town, its notables and its boredom as their subject, in a language without ornament.Literature
• NovelThe VortexLa vorágineJosé Eustasio Rivera · 1924A man follows into the forest the woman who was taken from him, and comes upon the plantations hidden there.LiteraturePublic domain
• CinemaLa tragedia del silencioArturo Acevedo Vallarino · 1924An engineer hides the illness that is eating away at him, in a country that confined its lepers.Cinema
• PoetryTergiversacionesLeón de Greiff · 1925not translated into EnglishThree signatories for a single poet, and a book arranged like a musical score, in ballads, rondels and refrains.Literature
• CinemaAlma provincianaFélix Rodríguez · 1926The two children of a landowner each fall in love outside their own class, one on the farm, the other in the capital.Cinema
• CinemaGarras de oroP. P. Jambrina · 1927How Colombia lost Panama, told by a film that Washington wanted to silence.Cinema
• PoetryRosas negrasPorfirio Barba-Jacob · 1933not translated into EnglishPoems of wandering and of the announcement of his own death, collected in Guatemala by a friend who had not asked his permission.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelToá, narraciones de caucheríasCésar Uribe Piedrahíta · 1933not translated into EnglishA young doctor sent on a mission to the rubber tappers of the Amazon, and what he finds there.Literature
• NovelRisaraldaBernardo Arias Trujillo · 1935not translated into EnglishBlack settlers found a hamlet between two rivers, and white colonists then arrive to occupy the land.Literature
• CinemaFlores del valleMáximo Calvo Olmedo · 1941An educated peasant woman faces the gaze of the townspeople, in a sung comedy of the Valle.Cinema
• CinemaAllá en el trapicheRoberto Saa Silva · 1943An heiress returns from the United States with a fiancé, to a sugar cane plantation that her father has mortgaged.Cinema
• CinemaSendero de luzEmilio Álvarez Correa · 1945The last film of a production company that had bet on the musical comedy, and which here tries its hand at drama.Cinema
• CinemaBambucos y corazonesGabriel Martínez · 1945A sung comedy in which the airs of the Andes take precedence over the story.Cinema
• NovelTierra mojadaManuel Zapata Olivella · 1947not translated into EnglishRice growers of the Sinú, and the land that is slowly slipping away from them.Literature
• PoetryClamorDora Castellanos · 1948not translated into EnglishThe first collection by a very young woman, in the Bogotá of 1948.Literature
• NarrativeEl gran Burundún-Burundá ha muertoJorge Zalamea · 1952not translated into EnglishThe burial of a dictator who had abolished speech, described procession by procession.Literature
• CinemaThe Blue LobsterLa langosta azulÁlvaro Cepeda Samudio · 1954An agent who has come to find radioactive lobsters loses his own, and the film becomes the portrait of a village.Cinema
• CinemaColombia lindaCamilo Correa · 1955Sung numbers and tableaux of the regions, held together by a slender narrative thread.Cinema
• PoetryDistancia destruidaCarlos Obregón Borrero · 1957not translated into EnglishA lone voice seeks God and meets only silence, in poems without anecdote.Literature
• CinemaEl milagro de la salLuis Moya Sarmiento · 1958Salt, the mine and the cathedral carved out within it, between reportage and melodrama.Cinema
• PoetryAmantesJorge Gaitán Durán · 1959not translated into EnglishTwo bodies, and a poet who refuses to separate pleasure from death.Literature
• PoetryEstoraquesEduardo Cote Lamus · 1963not translated into EnglishBefore columns of eroded earth, a man gauges on the stone what awaits the living.Literature
• NovelEl día señaladoManuel Mejía Vallejo · 1964not translated into EnglishA man comes to the village to settle a twenty-five-year-old score, his rooster under his arm.Literature
• CinemaPasado el meridianoJosé María Arzuaga · 1965An office clerk is refused leave to bury his mother, and the day goes on.Cinema
• CinemaEl río de las tumbasJulio Luzardo · 1965Corpses wash up on the riverbank and a village stubbornly refuses to see anything.Cinema
• PoetryLos poemas de la ofensaJaime Jaramillo Escobar · 1968not translated into EnglishLong, spoken lines of verse that insult polite society and keep returning to a village childhood.Literature
• PoetryVainas y otros poemasMaría Mercedes Carranza · 1972not translated into EnglishA first book that rejects solemnity and takes spoken language as its material.Literature
• CinemaChircalesMarta Rodríguez and Jorge Silva · 1972A family of brickmakers on the outskirts of Bogotá, filmed over six years.Cinema
• NovelLiveforever¡Que viva la música!Andrés Caicedo · 1977An heiress leaves her milieu for the orchestras and the streets of Cali.Literature
• NovelEl jardín de las WeismannJorge Eliécer Pardo · 1978not translated into EnglishThe years of the Violence seen from the garden of a family that came from Germany.Literature
• NovelChronicle of a Death ForetoldCrónica de una muerte anunciadaGabriel García Márquez · 1981Two brothers announce everywhere the murder they are preparing, and an entire town lets it happen.Literature
• CinemaPura sangreLuis Ospina · 1982In Cali, a sugar magnate keeps himself alive with the blood of boys procured for him by three employees.Cinema
• NovelLa tejedora de coronasGermán Espinosa · 1982not translated into EnglishA woman from Cartagena lives through the Age of Enlightenment, carrying the idea of a dead man.Literature
• NovelThe Snow of the AdmiralLa nieve del AlmiranteÁlvaro Mutis · 1986A man travels up a river towards sawmills that he already knows will bring him nothing.Literature
• NovelEn diciembre llegaban las brisasMarvel Moreno · 1987not translated into EnglishThree women of the Barranquilla bourgeoisie, seen again from Paris by the one who was able to leave.Literature
• CinemaRodrigo D. No futuroVíctor Gaviria · 1990A boy wants to start a punk band in the upper districts of Medellín.Cinema
• NovelLa virgen de los sicariosFernando Vallejo · 1994not translated into EnglishAn old grammarian who has come back to his homeland and a sixteen-year-old killer cross together a city where people kill for nothing.Literature
• CinemaÁguilas no cazan moscasSergio Cabrera · 1994A younger son comes back to find out why the butcher and the schoolteacher of his village fought a duel.Cinema

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