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• ChronicleHistoria del Reino de QuitoJuan de Velasco · 1789not translated into EnglishThe pre-Inca kingdom of Quito and its dynasties, recounted by a Jesuit exiled in Italy and become an account of the origins of Ecuador.Literature
• NovelCumandá: The Novel of the Ecuadorian JungleCumandá o Un drama entre salvajesJuan León Mera · 1879The love of an Amazonian Indian woman and a young white man, at a time when the missions were advancing into the forest.Literature
• NovelCapítulos que se le olvidaron a CervantesJuan Montalvo · 1895not translated into EnglishAn Ecuadorian writer takes up the language and the characters of Cervantes to write a sequel to Don Quixote.Literature
• PoetryProducciones literariasDolores Veintimilla de Galindo · 1898not translated into EnglishLove betrayed and an answer to slanderers: the voice of a Romantic woman poet of nineteenth-century Quito.Literature
• NovelA la costaLuis A. Martínez · 1904not translated into EnglishTwo Ecuadors separated by the mountains, the devout sierra and the coast of the plantations, which a declassed son of a good family crosses at the time of the liberal revolution.Literature
• PoetryEl árbol del bien y del malMedardo Ángel Silva · 1918not translated into EnglishLove, sadness and death in the only collection of a very young poet from Guayaquil.Literature
• DocumentaryLos invencibles shuaras del Alto AmazonasCarlos Crespi Croci · 1927A Salesian missionary and his camera among the Shuar of the Ecuadorian Amazon, in 1926.Cinema
• Short storiesUn hombre muerto a puntapiésPablo Palacio · 1927not translated into EnglishA news item read in a paper, an absurd investigation: the Ecuadorian avant-garde of the twenties.Literature
• NovelDon GoyoDemetrio Aguilera Malta · 1933A mangrove archipelago where woodcutters live in harmony with the trees, and where one begins to see coming what will separate them.Literature
• NovelLos SangurimasJosé de la Cuadra · 1934not translated into EnglishA coastal family that knows no law but that of its patriarch, in a world where legend takes the place of history.Literature
• NovelThe VillagersHuasipungoJorge Icaza · 1934The Indians of the Andean haciendas, crushed by the road that a landowner has built across their lands.Literature
• NovelBaldomeraAlfredo Pareja Diezcanseco · 1938not translated into EnglishThe port and its outskirts seen by a street vendor, in a city where poverty and police violence make up everyday life.Literature
• PoetryRegistro del mundoJorge Carrera Andrade · 1940not translated into EnglishObjects, Andean festivals and familiar figures seen by a travelling poet: twenty years of Ecuadorian poetry.Literature
• NovelOur Daily BreadNuestro panEnrique Gil Gilbert · 1942Rice growing on the coast, seen from the point of view of those who do the work and not of the one who sells it.Literature
• NovelJuyungoAdalberto Ortiz · 1943A Black boy from the northern coast who discovers racial hatred, then what poverty has in common for everyone.Literature
• NovelLas cruces sobre el aguaJoaquín Gallegos Lara · 1946not translated into EnglishA port city at the moment its working class counts itself for the first time, seen from its poor districts.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelWhen the Guayacans Were in BloomCuando los guayacanes florecíanNelson Estupiñán Bass · 1954A liberal revolt seen from Esmeraldas, through the voices of the Afro-Ecuadorians who wage it.Literature
• NovelÉgloga trágicaGonzalo Zaldumbide · 1956not translated into EnglishThe end of the old world of the Andean hacienda, told by the man who inherits it, in a prose that is close to poetry.Literature
• PoetryPiezas líricasIleana Espinel · 1957not translated into EnglishA young voice that speaks of illness and of the end without consolation, apart from the social realism that then occupied the country's letters.Literature
• PoetryBoletín y elegía de las mitasCésar Dávila Andrade · 1959not translated into EnglishThe Indians of colonial forced labour speak out in Ecuador's great poem of servitude.Literature
• NovelBruna and Her Sisters in the Sleeping CityBruna, soroche y los tíosAlicia Yánez Cossío · 1973A girl from the sierra who discovers what her family has passed over in silence, in a city where religion governs the hours.Literature
• NovelDía tras díaMiguel Donoso Pareja · 1976not translated into EnglishA man in exile, caught between several women who are really one, in a book that is something of a gallery of mirrors.Literature
• NovelEntre Marx y una mujer desnudaJorge Enrique Adoum · 1976not translated into EnglishThe failure of a utopia told by those who believed in it, in a book that at the same time rejects the rules of the novel.Literature
• NovelPolvo y cenizaEliécer Cárdenas · 1979not translated into EnglishAn outlaw of the southern Andes whose legend took shape in his own lifetime, presented here with the contradictory accounts that carry it.Literature
• CinemaArcilla indócilCarlos Pérez Agusti · 1983A village notable and his young employee, a union that the whole pueblo talks about, in defiance of class barriers.Cinema
• NovelWolves' DreamSueño de lobosAbdón Ubidia · 1986Losers from the capital planning a heist, just as the country emerges from dictatorship.Literature
• CinemaThe TigressLa TigraCamilo Luzuriaga · 1990Three orphaned sisters rule over a farm in montubio country; a healer has tied their salvation to the youngest sister's virginity.Cinema
• CinemaRatas, ratones, raterosSebastián Cordero · 1999Two cousins in a Quito of month-ends and debts, where theft stands in for a trade and where one of the two brings with him what he is fleeing.Cinema

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