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ChronicleSaggio di storia americanaFilippo Salvatore Gilii · 1780not translated into EnglishThe Tamanaco account of the flood and of Amalivaca, collected by a missionary on the Orinoco.Literature
PoetryThe Agriculture of the Torrid ZoneSilva a la agricultura de la zona tórridaAndrés Bello · 1826A poem written in London, which sings of the crops of the tropics and sends the new nations of America back to their fields.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelIphigeniaIfigenia. Diario de una señorita que escribió porque se fastidiabaTeresa de la Parra · 1924A young woman back from Paris writes, in the Caracas of the twenties, what her family does not want to hear.Literature
PoetryLa torre de TimónJosé Antonio Ramos Sucre · 1925not translated into EnglishThe poetic prose of a solitary scholar from Caracas, between the glory of the liberators and the longing for death: a forerunner of the Venezuelan avant-garde.Literature
NovelDoña BarbaraDoña BárbaraRómulo Gallegos · 1929The Venezuelan plain disputed between a lawyer who has come from the city and the estate owner who holds it by force.Literature
NovelThe Red LancesLas lanzas coloradasArturo Uslar Pietri · 1931Independence seen from a hacienda, through a foreman who bides his time and the servile troop he leads to war.Literature
NovelCubaguaEnrique Bernardo Núñez · 1931A journey backwards, from the oil era to the time of the conquistadors: Enrique Bernardo Núñez's groundbreaking novel.Literature
PoetryMi padre, el inmigranteVicente Gerbasi · 1945not translated into EnglishA son addresses his father, who came from Italy, and makes the crossing to the tropics a song about the night from which one comes.Literature
PoetryAl norte de la sangreAna Enriqueta Terán · 1946not translated into EnglishCounted metre and kept rhyme, chosen by a young woman from the Andes in the age of free verse.Literature
NovelAna Isabel, a Respectable GirlAna Isabel, una niña decenteAntonia Palacios · 1949A little girl in Caracas, under Juan Vicente Gómez, learns what it means to be a respectable child.Literature
CinemaThe Yacht Isabel Arrived This AfternoonLa balandra Isabel llegó esta tardeCarlos Hugo Christensen · 1950Venezuela in 1950, where a Caracas studio brings in crews from Argentina and Mexico to build an industry.Cinema
NarrativeLa mano junto al muroGuillermo Meneses · 1951not translated into EnglishA night in a port brothel, told in a style of writing that doubts everything it asserts.Literature
PoetryElena y los elementosJuan Sánchez Peláez · 1951not translated into EnglishA first book of 1951, in which the surrealism learned in Chile becomes a Venezuelan voice.Literature
NovelCasas muertasMiguel Otero Silva · 1955not translated into EnglishA town of the llanos that fevers and oil are emptying of its inhabitants.Literature
NovelLos pequeños seresSalvador Garmendia · 1959not translated into EnglishAn office clerk, promoted by the death of his boss, who loses himself within himself in a city that is never named.Literature
PoetryFantasmas y enfermedadesFrancisco Pérez Perdomo · 1961not translated into EnglishA first book from 1961, in which the ghosts of Andean market towns haunt a large nocturnal city.Literature
PoetryDefeatDerrotaRafael Cadenas · 1963A poem from 1963 that makes the admission of failure a voice for part of Venezuelan youth.Literature
CinemaEFPEUMMauricio Odremán Nieto · 1965A short film of 1965, in which a painter-filmmaker brings esotericism into Venezuelan cinema.Cinema
PoetryCármenesJuan Liscano · 1966not translated into EnglishA collection published in Argentina in 1966, in which a Venezuelan poet makes desire the very subject of the poem.Literature
NovelAndén lejanoOswaldo Trejo · 1968not translated into EnglishA novel of 1968 in which childhood returns as a score more than as a story.Literature
PoetryCosasLuis Alberto Crespo · 1968not translated into EnglishA first book from 1968, at the threshold of a body of work made of brief poems on memory and dry land.Literature
PoetryMuerto de risaHernández D'Jesús · 1968not translated into EnglishA Venezuelan family turned into a fable, at the start of a series of four books.Literature
NovelPaís portátilAdriano González León · 1969not translated into EnglishA guerrilla fighter crosses Caracas on a mission, burdened with his whole Andean lineage.Literature
Short storiesRajatablaLuis Britto García · 1970not translated into EnglishVenezuela under political repression, mocked in short texts that play with public language.Literature
NovelEl mago de la cara de vidrioEduardo Liendo · 1973not translated into EnglishA family in the Venezuelan capital, when television settles into the living room and dictates its advertisements.Literature
CinemaCuando quiero llorar, no lloroMauricio Walerstein · 1973Three boys born on the same day in 1948, and three worlds that never meet.Cinema
PoetryAdiós a EscuqueRamón Palomares · 1974not translated into EnglishThe Andean village left behind by the poet, told in the speech of those who stay there.Literature
PoetrySpaces to Say the Same [Thing]Espacios para decir lo mismoHanni Ossott · 1974A collection from 1974, in which the prose poem serves to think the self rather than to narrate it.Literature
CinemaI Am a CriminalSoy un delincuenteClemente de la Cerda · 1976Caracas in 1976, seen from its poor neighbourhoods and those who grow up there.Cinema
CinemaThe Smoking FishEl pez que fumaRomán Chalbaud · 1977A brothel run like a kingdom, where power passes from one lover to another.Cinema
PoetryTerredadEugenio Montejo · 1978not translated into EnglishBeing on Earth, aboard a turning planet: the collection that gives Eugenio Montejo's poetry its key word.Literature
PoetryCasa o loboYolanda Pantin · 1981not translated into EnglishThe childhood house turned disquieting figure: the first book of a major voice in Venezuelan poetry.Literature
NovelPercusiónJosé Balza · 1982not translated into EnglishA novel of 1982 that renames Caracas and makes the return to one's native land a metamorphosis of the body.Literature
PoetryBalizajeRafael Arráiz Lucca · 1983not translated into EnglishA young poet's first book, published by the group he had founded in Caracas.Literature
CinemaOrianaFina Torres · 1985A family house on the coast, and an heiress who already lives elsewhere.Cinema
CinemaMacu, The Policeman's WomanMacu, la mujer del policíaSolveig Hoogesteijn · 1987A poor neighbourhood, a child married to a policeman, and a criminal case seen from inside the house.Cinema
NovelDoña Inés vs. OblivionDoña Inés contra el olvidoAna Teresa Torres · 1992The voice of a dead aristocrat pleading for her lands from beyond the grave: a fresco of Venezuelan history by Ana Teresa Torres.Literature
CinemaSicarioJoseph Novoa · 1994A Venezuelan film on a Colombian subject: the hired killers of the neighbourhoods of Medellín.Cinema