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Poetryلیلی و مجنونJami · 1484not translated into EnglishThe legend of the man mad with love, taken up in the fifteenth century by a mystic poet of Herat, in which Leyli becomes a figure of divine beauty.Literature
Poetryطلسم حیرتMirza Abdul Qadir Bedil · 1669not translated into EnglishMughal India of the late seventeenth century, where poetry is written in Persian that Iran will long judge unreadable.Literature
PoetryPoems from the Divan of Khushhal Khan KhattakدیوانKhushal Khattak · 1680The valleys between Peshawar and Kabul in the seventeenth century, where men fight against the Mughal empire and where the learned language is not the one spoken.Literature
PoetryدیوانTimur Shah Durrani · 1790not translated into EnglishThe Durrani court of the late eighteenth century, which settles in Kabul.Literature
PoetryدیوانShehab al-Din Torshizi · 1800not translated into EnglishThe Durrani courts of Kabul and Herat, at the end of the eighteenth century, to which poets are brought from Iran.Literature
PoetryدیوانSardar Mehrdel Mashreqi · 1850not translated into EnglishThe courts of the sons of Payanda Khan, in the first half of the nineteenth century.Literature
PoetryدیوانAyesha Durrani · 1882not translated into EnglishThe Durrani court of Kabul, between the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth.Literature
PoetryدیوانSardar Ghulam Muhammad Tarzi · 1893not translated into EnglishThe exile of a family from Kandahar, from Karachi to Damascus, in the 1880s and 1890s.Literature
PoetryدیوانAbdullah Qari · 1923not translated into EnglishKabul in the first half of the twentieth century, where court poetry becomes state poetry.Literature
PoetryدیوانAbdul Ghafur Nadim · 1926not translated into EnglishKabul at the beginning of the twentieth century, between the old masters and the new words arriving from Europe.Literature
PoetryدیوانMir Hotak Popalzai · 1931not translated into EnglishThe Durrani kingdom of the years 1773 to 1793, where the king and his courtiers compose verse in Persian.Literature
PoetryدیوانHaji Ismail Siah · 1931not translated into EnglishHerat in the first half of the twentieth century, where satire has its poet.Literature
Short filmLove and Friendshipعشق و دوستیRashid Latif · 1946Kabul and Lahore in the mid-forties, before Afghanistan had a studio of its own.Cinema
PoetryدیوانAbdul Hakim Ziai · 1950not translated into EnglishKabul in the twentieth century, where poets return to the old masters of Dari.Literature
PoetryدیوانZia Qarizada · 1950not translated into EnglishKabul in the fifties and sixties, when the radio broadcasts songs written by poets.Literature
PoetryدیوانAbdul Haq Betab · 1951not translated into EnglishKabul in the middle of the twentieth century, where learned poetry is passed on from the lycées to the university.Literature
PoetryدیوانAbdul Ali Mustaghni · 1955not translated into EnglishKabul at the turn of the twentieth century, when court poetry opens itself to ideas of progress.Literature
Poetryمجموعهٔ اشعارPayenda Muhammad Farhat · 1960not translated into EnglishKabul in the middle of the twentieth century, where the Indian style keeps its faithful.Literature
PoetryچونغرSulaiman Layeq · 1962not translated into EnglishKabul in the early sixties, when the author is working at the national radio.Literature
Poetryمنتخبات اشعارMir Muhammad Ali Azad Kabuli · 1963not translated into EnglishKabul from one century to the next, where the Indian manner still holds out against new ideas.Literature
Poetryسرود هستیMuhammad Uthman Sedqi · 1963not translated into EnglishKabul in the sixties, where Dari poetry returns to its classics.Literature
PoetryستاکBareq Shafiei · 1963not translated into EnglishKabul in 1963, on the threshold of the so-called decade of democracy.Literature
PoetryدشتRahim Elham · 1967not translated into EnglishKabul in the late sixties, between the university and the first experiments in new verse.Literature
Poetryعشق و جوانیHaidari Wujudi Panjshiri · 1970not translated into EnglishKabul around 1970, where this Panjshiri has lived since adolescence.Literature
Poetryاژدهای خودیSayed Bahauddin Majrouh · 1973not translated into EnglishA fable in verse and prose about power, begun in the Kabul of the seventies and completed in exile.Literature
Feature filmRabia Balkhiرابعه بلخیAbdul Khaliq Alil and Toryali Shafaq · 1974The court of Balkh in the tenth century, recreated in 1974 by the Afghan state cinema.Cinema
Feature filmDifficult Daysروزهای دشوارWali Latifi · 1974Kabul in 1974, when the country begins to shoot its own fiction films.Cinema
Poetryوداع با تاریکیAsadullah Habib · 1978not translated into EnglishKabul under the Democratic Republic, where the author, a professor and party man, writes committed verse.Literature
PoetryدیوانSufi Ashqari · 1979not translated into EnglishKabul in the twentieth century, where the Indian style survives amid new things.Literature
Short storiesآوازی از میان قرنهاRahnaward Zaryab · 1983not translated into EnglishKabul in 1983, where the short story in Dari wins its place alongside poetry.Literature
Poetryو آفتاب نمی‌میردWasef Bakhtari · 1984not translated into EnglishKabul in 1984, under the Democratic Republic.Literature
Short storiesدشت قابیلSpozhmai Zaryab · 1988not translated into EnglishAn unnamed Afghan city, under the Soviet occupation, where people write in images rather than by denouncing.Literature
PoetrySongs of Love and WarلنډۍAnonymous · 1988The Pashtun valleys on either side of the border, and the refugee camps of Peshawar in the eighties.Literature
PoetryدیوانMuhammad Nabi Wasel · 1994not translated into EnglishThe chancellery of the emirs of Kabul, in the second half of the nineteenth century.Literature
Poetryنکهت خاک ره‌یارMuhammad Asef Fekrat Herawi · 2000not translated into EnglishThe Iranian exile of a scholar from Herat, at the end of the twentieth century.Literature
NovelEarth and Ashesخاکستر و خاکAtiq Rahimi · 2000An old man and his grandson, now deaf, wait on an Afghan road, bearers of terrible news.Literature
PoetryدیوانMuhammad Amin Andalibnot translated into EnglishA family of poets of the house of Kandahar, in the 1860s and 1870s.Literature
PoetryنهالAbdul Hai Aryanpur Rostaqinot translated into EnglishThe years 1951 to 1965, the time of the first Afghan experiments with free verse.Literature