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ChronicleHistoria de la Villa Imperial de PotosíBartolomé Arzáns de Orsúa y Vela · 1736not translated into EnglishThe richest city of the colonial Americas, its festivals, its crimes and its portents, told by one of its inhabitants.Literature
PoetryLa ciegaMaría Josefa Mujía · 1850not translated into EnglishSucre in the middle of the nineteenth century, when Romantic poetry was first heard there.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelJuan de la Rosa: Memoirs of the Last Soldier of the Independence MovementJuan de la RosaNataniel Aguirre · 1885Cochabamba between 1810 and 1812, from the uprising against the king to the arrival of the royalist troops.Literature
PoetryKacharpariJuan Wallparrimachi · 1891not translated into EnglishThe highlands of Charcas in the time of the guerrilla wars of independence, where the language of the majority is hardly written down and where a sung farewell passes from mouth to mouth before anyone fixes it in writing.Literature
PoetryCastalia bárbaraRicardo Jaimes Freyre · 1899not translated into EnglishSpanish America at the end of the century, where a generation of poets goes to seek its images far from Spain.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelLa candidatura de RojasArmando Chirveches · 1909not translated into EnglishBolivia in the 1900s, where one becomes a deputy for one's province, amid powerful families, patronage networks and arranged votes.Literature
NovelEn las tierras del PotosíJaime Mendoza · 1911not translated into EnglishThe tin camps of northern Potosí at the beginning of the twentieth century, around the mines of Llallagua and Uncía.Literature
NovelConfidencesÍntimasAdela Zamudio · 1913Cochabamba in 1906 and 1907, where a woman's reputation is made and unmade in the conversation of a small town.Literature
TheatreLa Prometheida o las oceánidesFranz Tamayo · 1917not translated into EnglishThe Caucasus of myth, where the punishment of the thief of fire is used to call the order of the gods into question.Literature
PoetryEl cofre de PsiquisGregorio Reynolds · 1918not translated into EnglishA hundred sonnets between Sade and prayer: the great book of a master of Bolivian modernism.Literature
NovelRaza de bronceAlcides Arguedas · 1919not translated into EnglishThe Aymara altiplano at the beginning of the twentieth century, where the settlers of a hacienda owe the master their labour and the journeys he imposes on them.Literature
CinemaWara WaraJosé María Velasco Maidana · 1930The only Bolivian silent feature film to have come down to us: an Aymara princess and a conquistador at the time of the conquest.Cinema
NovelBewitched LandsTerres embraséesAdolfo Costa du Rels · 1931The tropical borderlands of Bolivia at the time when oil is being sought there, on an estate that its master holds by a single will.Literature
NovelAluvión de fuegoÓscar Cerruto · 1935not translated into EnglishBolivia at war with Paraguay, seen from the rear, on an altiplano where landowners and soldiers weigh upon the Indian communities.Literature
Short storiesSangre de mestizosAugusto Céspedes · 1936not translated into EnglishThirst, death and absurdity: the war between Bolivia and Paraguay told by a witness from the front.Literature
PoetryPirotecniaHilda Mundy · 1936not translated into EnglishSixty flashes of ironic prose, in which a young woman from Oruro brings the avant-garde into Bolivian letters.Literature
NovelPrisionero de guerraAugusto Guzmán · 1937not translated into EnglishThe war seen from the Paraguayan camps, by a soldier who was himself a captive there.Literature
Short storiesEl occisoMaría Virginia Estenssoro · 1937not translated into EnglishA dead man recounting his decomposition, a woman who chooses to abort: the book that caused a scandal in La Paz in 1937.Literature
NovelLa ChaskañawiCarlos Medinaceli · 1947not translated into EnglishA provincial town, where a declining oligarchy of landowners rubs shoulders with the world of the cholas.Literature
PoetryBajo el sol de TarijaÓscar Alfaro · 1947not translated into EnglishA valley in southern Bolivia, where a distinct language is spoken and people sing in coplas.Literature
NovelLa niña de sus ojosAntonio Díaz Villamil · 1948not translated into EnglishLa Paz in the first half of the century, where a woman in a pollera and a young lady in a skirt cannot be the same person.Literature
NovelYanakunaJesús Lara · 1952not translated into EnglishThe haciendas of the Cochabamba valley before the 1952 revolution, where an indebted Indian family pays in labour and in children.Literature
CinemaVuelve SebastianaJorge Ruiz · 1953The high plateau of the Chipaya, an isolated people of the Bolivian altiplano, neighbours and rivals of the Aymara.Cinema
NovelLos deshabitadosMarcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz · 1959not translated into EnglishA nameless city in Bolivia after the revolution of 1952, where middle-class people get through their days without knowing why.Literature
NarrativeEl LocoArturo Borda · 1966not translated into EnglishLa Paz in the author's day, seen by a painter who writes in the margins of his painting.Literature
CinemaUkamauJorge Sanjinés · 1966An island on Lake Titicaca and the altiplano, where a peasant and a mestizo share neither the same language nor the same rights.Cinema
CinemaCrimen sin olvidoJorge Mistral · 1968South America in the sixties, where it was known that former Nazis were living under assumed names.Cinema
NovelTirineaJesús Urzagasti · 1969not translated into EnglishThe plain of the Chaco and the high-altitude city, held together by a notebook in which two voices answer each other.Literature
NovelThe BreachLos fundadores del albaRenato Prada Oropeza · 1969Southeastern Bolivia in 1967, when a handful of men believe they are opening the revolution of the continent there.Literature
NovelBajo el oscuro solYolanda Bedregal · 1971not translated into EnglishLa Paz in revolution, where the street rumbles while a woman alone writes in her room.Literature
NovelMatías, el apóstol suplenteJulio de la Vega · 1971not translated into EnglishTwo superimposed times, the Palestine of the apostles and the Bolivia of the guerrilla, in which the same second place is played out again.Literature
PoetryQuiero escribir, pero me sale espumaPedro Shimose · 1972not translated into EnglishA martyred Bolivia, in verses of anger and collage: the book of a poet on the threshold of exile.Literature
CinemaLa ChaskañawiJosé Cuéllar Urízar and Hugo Cuéllar Urízar · 1976A town in southern Bolivia where no one crosses the line between the young ladies and the cholas.Cinema
CinemaSeñores generales, señores coronelesAlfonso Gumucio · 1976Bolivia under dictatorship, seen from the Parisian exile of those whom the military had driven out.Cinema
NovelManchay Puytu, el amor que quiso ocultar DiosNéstor Taboada Terán · 1977not translated into EnglishThe great mining city of Upper Peru in colonial times, where an Indian priest and an Indian woman can live together only out of sight.Literature
CinemaChuquiagoAntonio Eguino · 1977La Paz at the end of the seventies, a city where one goes up and down without ever changing worlds.Cinema
Novel¡Hijo de opa!Gaby Vallejo · 1977not translated into EnglishThe fall of a landowning family in Cochabamba, haunted by a crime committed against an indigenous woman.Literature
NarrativeHuelga y represiónVíctor Montoya · 1979not translated into EnglishBolivia under the Banzer dictatorship, where people disappear for having been a delegate in a mining camp.Literature
NovelFelipe DelgadoJaime Sáenz · 1979not translated into EnglishLa Paz in the thirties, its markets, its liquor shops and its porters, seen by a man who deliberately goes down.Literature
CinemaMi socioPaolo Agazzi · 1982The roads linking eastern Bolivia to the highlands, as the country emerges from eighteen years of military regimes.Cinema
CinemaTinku, el encuentroJuan Miranda · 1985Bolivia in the eighties, rediscovered by a native son raised abroad.Cinema
NovelJonás y la ballena rosadaWolfango Montes Vannuci · 1987not translated into EnglishThe Bolivian Oriente in the mid-eighties, when the currency collapses and drug trafficking stirs up a provincial bourgeoisie.Literature
NovelRío FugitivoEdmundo Paz Soldán · 1998not translated into EnglishBolivia in the eighties seen from a school in Cochabamba, amid strikes, inflation and the end of adolescence.Literature