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• PoetryPoesíasJosé María Heredia · 1825not translated into EnglishThe north-east of the United States, where the poet lived in exile from 1823 to 1825.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelSabGertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda · 1841A Cuban estate in the time of slavery, seen by an author who had left for Madrid.Literature
• NovelFranciscoAnselmo Suárez y Romero · 1880not translated into EnglishAn enslaved coachman, in love with a servant, becomes the victim of his mistress's son, on a Cuban sugar plantation.Literature
• NovelCecilia Valdés or El Angel HillCecilia Valdés o La Loma del ÁngelCirilo Villaverde · 1882Havana in 1830, under slavery, painted from New York by an exile.Literature
• PoetryIsmaelilloJosé Martí · 1882The exile of a Cuban between Caracas and New York, in the early 1880s.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryNieveJulián del Casal · 1892not translated into EnglishHavana in 1892, where a poet reads Paris and Japan in engravings.LiteraturePublic domain
• Feature filmLa Virgen de la CaridadRamón Peón · 1930The Cuban countryside in 1930, in the last great melodrama of the island's silent era.Cinema
• PoetrySóngoro cosongoNicolás Guillén · 1931not translated into EnglishHavana in 1931, where the sound of the Black neighbourhoods enters learned poetry.Literature
• NovelEl negrero: vida novelada de Pedro Blanco Fernández de TravaLino Novás Calvo · 1933not translated into EnglishThe Atlantic slave trade of the first half of the nineteenth century, between Andalusia, West Africa and Cuba.Literature
• TaleAfro-Cuban TalesCuentos negros de CubaLydia Cabrera · 1936Paris in the mid-thirties, where a young Havanan woman sets down in writing the Afro-Cuban tales of her childhood.Literature
• Feature filmLa serpiente rojaErnesto Caparrós · 1937Havana in 1937, when a radio serial becomes the island's first talking film.Cinema
• TheatreElectra GarrigóVirgilio Piñera · 1948The myth of Electra transposed to a Havana family, with a chorus of Cuban peasants.Literature
• NovelThe Kingdom of This WorldEl reino de este mundoAlejo Carpentier · 1949Saint-Domingue becoming Haiti, from the end of the eighteenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth.Literature
• NovelJardínDulce María Loynaz · 1951not translated into EnglishA Havana house of the twenties and thirties, in a lyrical novel written from 1928 to 1935.Literature
• NovelLa situaciónLisandro Otero · 1963not translated into EnglishThe Havana bourgeoisie of the fifties, recounted in 1963 by a writer from that milieu.Literature
• NovelBiography of a Runaway SlaveBiografía de un cimarrónMiguel Barnet · 1966Cuba from slavery to independence, told in 1963 by a witness who lived through every stage of it.Literature
• NovelParadisoJosé Lezama Lima · 1966Havana in the first third of the twentieth century, told in 1966 in a baroque prose.Literature
• NovelThree Trapped TigersTres tristes tigresGuillermo Cabrera Infante · 1967The cabarets and nights of Havana, at the end of the fifties.Literature
• NovelSinging from the WellCelestino antes del albaReinaldo Arenas · 1967The poverty of the peasantry of Oriente under Batista, seen through a child's eyes.Literature
• Feature filmThe Adventures of Juan Quin QuinLas aventuras de Juan Quin QuinJulio García Espinosa · 1967The Cuban countryside before 1959, told in 1967 in the form of an adventure comedy.Cinema
• PoetryFuera del juegoHeberto Padilla · 1968not translated into EnglishHavana in 1968, when an official jury awards a prize to a book that the institution immediately disowns.Literature
• Short storiesLa guerra tuvo seis nombresEduardo Heras León · 1968not translated into EnglishThe three days of fighting in April 1961 on the island's south coast, told by a militiaman.Literature
• Short storiesCondenados de CondadoNorberto Fuentes · 1968not translated into EnglishThe war in the mountains of central Cuba, in the first half of the sixties.Literature
• DocumentaryCoffea arábigaNicolás Guillén Landrián · 1968Havana in 1968, in the time of the coffee plan, in a commissioned short film that turns against its commission.Cinema
• Feature filmLucíaHumberto Solás · 1968Seventy years of Cuban history, from the war of 1895 to the first years of the revolution, seen through three women.Cinema
• Documentary79 primaverasSantiago Álvarez · 1969Cuban solidarity with Hanoi, in 1969, seen through the newsreel cinema of Havana.Cinema
• Feature filmThe First Charge of the MacheteLa primera carga al macheteManuel Octavio Gómez · 1969The war of 1868 against Spain, filmed in 1969 like a newsreel report.Cinema
• NovelCobraSevero Sarduy · 1972A theatre of transvestites, then the Orient, in a novel written in Paris by a Cuban exile.Literature
• Feature filmThe Man from MaisinicuEl hombre de MaisinicúManuel Pérez · 1973The war against the armed bands of the Escambray, in the early sixties, based on a real case.Cinema
• Feature filmThe Other FranciscoEl otro FranciscoSergio Giral · 1975A nineteenth-century abolitionist novel brought to the screen, then confronted with what slavery was on the plantations.Cinema
• Feature filmOne Way or AnotherDe cierta maneraSara Gómez · 1977A rehoused neighbourhood of Havana after the revolution, where new ideas clash with old habits.Cinema
• Feature filmThe TeacherEl brigadistaOctavio Cortázar · 1977The literacy campaign of 1961, seen from an isolated village where the counter-revolution remained in arms.Cinema
• Feature filmPortrait of TeresaRetrato de TeresaPastor Vega · 1979A woman worker caught between the factory, her three children and a husband for whom the home remains women's business.Cinema
• Feature filmLejaníaJesús Díaz · 1985A mother returned from exile for a few days, facing the son she had left behind in Havana.Cinema
• Feature filmVampires in Havana¡Vampiros en La Habana!Juan Padrón · 1985A Cuban animated film for adults, in which vampires, gangsters and politicians fight over pre-revolutionary Havana.Cinema
• Feature filmClandestinosFernando Pérez · 1987A clandestine cell in Havana and its leaflet press, in the last year of the dictatorship.Cinema
• Feature filmSupporting RolesPapeles secundariosOrlando Rojas · 1989The rehearsals of a Havana theatre company, where backstage intrigues hand out the roles as much as talent does.Cinema
• Feature filmThe Beauty of the AlhambraLa bella del AlhambraEnrique Pineda Barnet · 1989A circus chorus girl who wants to step onto the stage of a revue theatre, in Havana in the twenties.Cinema
• Short storyStrawberry and ChocolateEl lobo, el bosque y el hombre nuevoSenel Paz · 1990A young communist and a cultured homosexual become friends in Havana, over forbidden books.Literature
• Feature filmMascaró, el cazador americanoConstante Diego · 1991A travelling circus in an imaginary Latin America, based on the last novel by an Argentine writer arrested by the dictatorship.Cinema
• NovelHavana BluePasado perfectoLeonardo Padura · 1991A disillusioned policeman investigates the disappearance of a model official, in Havana in 1989.Literature
• Feature filmAdorable LiesAdorables mentirasGerardo Chijona · 1992Two Havanans who meet by each presenting himself as what he would like to be, and keep up the lie for as long as they can.Cinema
• Feature filmStrawberry and ChocolateFresa y chocolateTomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío · 1993Havana in the late seventies, where associating with the wrong person could be reported and punished.Cinema
• NovelYocandra in the Paradise of NadaLa nada cotidianaZoé Valdés · 1995A young Havana woman born with the revolution writes her anger at the void of everyday life.Literature

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