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- EpicThe Legends of the PanjâbRichard Carnac Temple · 1884The songs of the wandering bards of the Punjab, collected at the end of the nineteenth century by a British officer.Literature
- PoetryThe Call of the Marching Bellبانگِ دراMuhammad Iqbal · 1924Patriotic songs, memories of Europe and calls for a Muslim awakening: Iqbal's first Urdu collection.Literature
- Short storiesآتش پارےSaadat Hasan Manto · 1936not translated into EnglishThe first collection of a short-story writer in Urdu, whose first story returns to the Amritsar of 1919.Literature
- NovelTwilight in DelhiAhmed Ali · 1940The old Muslim society of a fallen imperial capital, its pigeons and its poets, caught at the moment when it ceases to exist.Literature
- CinemaTeri YaadDaud Chand · 1948An inheritance drama told in songs, which opens film production in the new country.Cinema
- CinemaPherayNazir Ahmed Khan · 1949A village love story in the manner of Heer Ranjha, in which a debt decides the fate of a young girl.Cinema
- Short storiesشپېلۍSher Zaman Taizi · 1950not translated into EnglishThe border between Afghanistan and Pakistan in the middle of the twentieth century, where a language of oral tradition searches for a prose.Literature
- CinemaDo AnsooAnwar Kamal Pasha · 1950A melodrama in which a father's crime weighs on two half-sisters he had by two wives.Cinema
- Poetryدستِ صباFaiz Ahmed Faiz · 1952not translated into EnglishPrison verses that borrow their images from love poetry to speak of the country as well.Literature
- CinemaUmer MarviShaikh Hassan · 1956A legend from Sindh brought to the screen: a village girl held captive by a king, who refuses his gifts.Cinema
- CinemaThe Day Shall DawnJago Hua SaveraA. J. Kardar · 1959Fishermen of East Bengal caught between the river and the moneylenders, played by unknowns before the camera.Cinema
- NovelRiver of Fireآگ کا دریاQurratulain Hyder · 1959Two thousand years of Indian history, from Antiquity to Partition, through figures reborn from age to age.Literature
- NovelSunlight on a Broken ColumnAttia Hosain · 1961The end of a world of Muslim landowners in Lucknow, seen by a young girl growing up in it.Literature
- CinemaGhoonghatKhwaja Khurshid Anwar · 1962A suspense drama in which a man pursues, between dream and reality, a wife whose face he has never seen.Cinema
- NovelThe Weary Generationsاداس نسلیںAbdullah Hussein · 1963Thirty-five years of the Punjab before the partition, seen by a man whom the war moved from one world to another.Literature
- CinemaNailaSharif Nayyar · 1965Two half-brothers in love with the same cousin, in a melodrama drawn from a popular novel.Cinema
- CinemaArmaanPervez Malik · 1966An exchange of identities between two friends on the eve of an arranged marriage, and a cousin's secret.Cinema
- CinemaZarqaRiaz Shahid · 1969A Palestinian dancer faces an occupying officer, in a film of sung struggle.Cinema
- CinemaHeer RanjhaMasood Parvez · 1970The most famous of the tragic romances of the Punjab, brought to the screen with its songs and its rural landscapes.Cinema
- CinemaAinaNazar-ul-Islam · 1977A love story between an heiress and a hotel employee, carried by its songs.Cinema
- NovelThe Crow EatersBapsi Sidhwa · 1978A Parsi family saga in Lahore, written in the vein of farce by a novelist from the same community.Literature
- NovelBastiبستیIntizar Hussain · 1979A man who changed country in 1947 lives through, twenty-four years later, the war that splits his new country in two.Literature
- CinemaMaula JattYunus Malik · 1979A peasant vendetta fought with axes, where violence answers violence under the eye of a mocked police force.Cinema
- PoetryArrival of the MonsoonTaufiq Rafat · 1985Poems that make the language of the former colonizer speak of a country, its seasons and its families.Literature
- NovelThe Buddha of SuburbiaHanif Kureishi · 1990The English suburbs seen by a boy of two worlds, between everyday racism and the drawing rooms' appetite for the exotic.Literature
- CinemaIntehaSamina Peerzada · 1999Marital rape brought to the screen, by an actress who has moved behind the camera.Cinema
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