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• PoetryCanto fúnebre a la muerte de Don Diego PortalesMercedes Marín del Solar · 1837not translated into EnglishAn elegy to a minister who was shot, signed with a pseudonym that intrigued its readers.LiteraturePublic domain
• NarrativeSketches of Life in Chile, 1841-1851Artículos de costumbresJosé Joaquín Vallejo (Jotabeche) · 1847Chilean life sketched for the newspapers from a mining town in the north.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryNational Anthem of ChileHimno Nacional de ChileEusebio Lillo · 1847The words of the Chilean anthem, written to replace a text hostile to Spain.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelDon GuillermoJosé Victorino Lastarria · 1860not translated into EnglishA journey underground that turns the conservative order of Chile into a kingdom of monsters.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelMartín RivasAlberto Blest Gana · 1862A poor young man from the provinces, lodged with a wealthy man in the capital, on the eve of the revolution of 1851.LiteraturePublic domain
• TheatreComo en SantiagoDaniel Barros Grez · 1875not translated into EnglishA provincial family dazzled by a deputy who has come from the capital.LiteraturePublic domain
• NarrativeTimes Gone By: Memoirs of a Man of ActionRecuerdos del pasadoVicente Pérez Rosales · 1882A child of independence who became a smuggler, gold prospector and colonizer, and who tells his life.Literature
• PoetryRimas chilenasEduardo de la Barra · 1890not translated into EnglishThe early poems of a Romantic, gathered in one volume.LiteraturePublic domain
• TaleEstudios araucanosRodolfo Lenz · 1897not translated into EnglishMapuche stories, songs and dialogues dictated to a linguist and published with their translation.Literature
• Short storiesSub terraBaldomero Lillo · 1904not translated into EnglishThe coal galleries of Lota, their accidents, their withheld wages and their children sent down to the bottom.Literature
• NovelCasa grandeLuis Orrego Luco · 1908not translated into EnglishA marriage within the oligarchy of Santiago, swept away by speculation and luxury.Literature
• NovelZurzulitaMariano Latorre · 1920not translated into EnglishAn ill-prepared city dweller settled on inherited land in a village of the Maule.Literature
• NovelAlsinoPedro Prado · 1920A country child who grows wings, and what men want to make of him.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryDesolaciónGabriela Mistral · 1922Poems of mourning and school pieces, written by a provincial schoolteacher.Literature
• NovelBrother AssEl hermano asnoEduardo Barrios · 1922Two Franciscans, one revered as a saint, the other tempted to break his vows.Literature
• PoetryLos gemidosPablo de Rokha · 1922not translated into EnglishSongs in which pain becomes a path to knowledge, between God and Satan.Literature
• NovelMontaña adentroMarta Brunet · 1923not translated into EnglishA peasant town in the south, its day labourers, its administrator and the closely watched love affairs of Cata.Literature
• NovelPasión y muerte del cura DeustoAugusto d'Halmar · 1924not translated into EnglishA Basque priest in Seville and the young Gypsy who serves at his Mass.Literature
• CinemaEl húsar de la muertePedro Sienna · 1925A guerrilla fighter of the independence struggle who taunts the royalists under his disguises, after Rancagua.Cinema
• NovelThe PartnerEl socioJenaro Prieto · 1928A speculator from the capital and the English partner he has given himself.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryAltazor, or A Voyage in a ParachuteAltazorVicente Huidobro · 1931A poet who falls through space, and a language that comes undone.Literature
• PoetryAfán del corazónÁngel Cruchaga · 1933not translated into EnglishPoems of the freezing night and of the call, between love and religious sadness.Literature
• NovelThe Final MistLa última nieblaMaría Luisa Bombal · 1934An unhappily married woman, a night with a stranger and the mist that blurs every memory.Literature
• NovelMiltín 1934Juan Emar · 1935not translated into EnglishA narrator who digresses endlessly, travels as far as the Sun and settles scores with the critics.Literature
• Short storiesCobreGonzalo Drago · 1941not translated into EnglishThe daily life of the copper men, between a hostile mountain and the injustice of the bosses.Literature
• Short storiesCape Horn and Other Stories from the End of the WorldCabo de HornosFrancisco Coloane · 1941Shepherds, seal hunters and lighthouse keepers facing the wind and cold at the end of the continent.Literature
• CinemaVerdejo gasta un millónEugenio de Liguoro · 1941A wretch of the satirical press, ordered to squander a fortune in six months.Cinema
• NovelLa sangre y la esperanzaNicomedes Guzmán · 1943not translated into EnglishA working-class childhood in the poor outskirts of the capital, at the time of a strike.Literature
• PoetryLa miseria del hombreGonzalo Rojas · 1948not translated into EnglishA first book of fire and catastrophe, in which the sun itself speaks of dying.Literature
• NovelBorn GuiltyHijo de ladrónManuel Rojas · 1951A thief's son, without papers or trade, stranded in Valparaíso after a childhood of wandering.Literature
• PoetryPoems and AntipoemsPoemas y antipoemasNicanor Parra · 1954Irony, sarcasm and ordinary speech set against the solemn tone of the Chilean poetry of his time.Literature
• PoetryPara ángeles y gorrionesJorge Teillier · 1956not translated into EnglishChildhood, the village and the house of the south, looked back on from adolescence with nostalgia.Literature
• NovelCoronationCoronaciónJosé Donoso · 1957A bedridden grandmother, an idle grandson, ageing maids and a young peasant girl in a closed-up house.Literature
• CinemaMimbreSergio Bravo · 1957The hands of a basket-maker at work, filmed up close, and a guitar by Violeta Parra.Cinema
• Short storiesGente solitariaPoli Délano · 1960not translated into EnglishSuburban solitudes, thwarted loves and lives on the margins, written from Beijing.Literature
• NovelEloyCarlos Droguett · 1960not translated into EnglishA bandit surrounded in a cabin, and everything that goes through his mind while the police wait.Literature
• PoetryThe Dark Room and Other PoemsLa pieza oscuraEnrique Lihn · 1963Children who play at fighting in a dark room, and childhood as a country of ghosts.Literature
• CinemaLargo viajePatricio Kaulen · 1967A boy crosses Santiago to give his dead little brother back his cardboard wings.Cinema
• CinemaThree Sad TigersTres tristes tigresRaúl Ruiz · 1968A night of wandering between the bars of Santiago, among an unscrupulous little middle class.Cinema
• CinemaThe Jackal of NahueltoroEl chacal de NahueltoroMiguel Littín · 1969A drunken day labourer kills a woman and her children, then changes in prison under the eye of the justice system.Cinema
• CinemaValparaíso, My LoveValparaíso, mi amorAldo Francia · 1969Four children from the hills of Valparaíso, left without protection after their father's arrest.Cinema
• NarrativePersona Non Grata: An Envoy in Castro's CubaPersona non grataJorge Edwards · 1973Three months in the life of a Chilean diplomat in Havana, at the time of the Padilla affair.Literature
• NarrativeMemoirsConfieso que he vividoPablo Neruda · 1974The life of a poet and diplomat told through anecdotes, from childhood in the south to the consulates of Asia.Literature
• CinemaThe Battle of ChileLa batalla de ChilePatricio Guzmán · 1979The last months of the Allende government, filmed day by day by a team of five people.Cinema
• NovelThe House of the SpiritsLa casa de los espíritusIsabel Allende · 1982A Chilean family over four generations, from a woman who sees spirits to her granddaughter.Literature
• CinemaA Man, When He Is a ManEl hombre cuando es hombreValeria Sarmiento · 1982Men of Costa Rica talk about love, between boleros and cinema melodramas.Cinema
• NovelBurning PatienceArdiente pacienciaAntonio Skármeta · 1985A young village postman, a single customer, Pablo Neruda, and an apprenticeship in images.Literature
• Cinema100 Children Waiting for a TrainCien niños esperando un trenIgnacio Agüero · 1988Children from a poor community learn, one Saturday after another, how images are born.Cinema
• NovelThe Old Man Who Read Love StoriesUn viejo que leía novelas de amorLuis Sepúlveda · 1989An old man of the Amazon, a reader of love stories, forced to track a wounded beast.Literature
• CinemaCandy or MintCaluga o mentaGonzalo Justiniano · 1990Unemployed young people from a Santiago suburb, drugs, and the love of a girl who is said to be mad.Cinema
• CinemaThe FrontierLa FronteraRicardo Larraín · 1991A teacher relegated to the far south, in an inner exile between the sea and the eccentrics.Cinema
• CinemaJohnny 100 PesosJohnny cien pesosGustavo Graef-Marino · 1993A schoolboy caught up in a botched robbery, shut in with hostages under the eye of the cameras.Cinema
• CinemaSoccer StoriesHistorias de fútbolAndrés Wood · 1997A bribed player, children and a ball, a young man stuck on Chiloé.Cinema
• NovelThe Savage DetectivesLos detectives salvajesRoberto Bolaño · 1998Two Mexico City poets set out to find a vanished poetess, and twenty years of testimonies about them.Literature
• CinemaGringuitoSergio M. Castilla · 1998A boy raised in New York, brought back to a Chile he rejects, and the friendship of a street vendor.Cinema
• CinemaCoronationCoronaciónSilvio Caiozzi · 2000An old bachelor, his confused grandmother and a young maid, in a house full of objects and memories.Cinema

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