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• TaleApologhi ed aneddoti volti in lingua TigriññaGhebre-Medhin Dighnei · 1902not translated into EnglishIn the Italian colony of Eritrea, fables and tales of the highlands pass into writing in Tigrinya and are printed in Rome in Ethiopic script.Literature
• TalePublications of the Princeton Expedition to AbyssiniaEnno Littmann · 1910At the beginning of the twentieth century, in Italian Eritrea, a German scholar and a young Tigre man of letters set down in writing an oral tradition.Literature
• PoetryHow the World Was Set Ablaze because of Two SerpentsAnonymous · 1916not translated into EnglishIn the midst of the Great War, an anonymous poem in Tigrinya, printed in Rome, reads the European conflict as a war of religion.Literature
• TaleZennan tereten qeddamotYacob Ghebreyesus · 1949not translated into EnglishUnder British administration, a priest and schoolteacher has the tales and proverbs of the country printed in Asmara, in Tigrinya, for his pupils.Literature
• NovelThe Conscriptሓደ ዛንታGhebreyesus Hailu · 1950Italy sends soldiers recruited in its Red Sea colony to conquer Libya: an ascari draws an anticolonial novel from it.Literature
• Narrativenə’əgziabəher zəsa’ano nəgär yälbon. tənsa’en ‘awätənZegga-Iyesus Iyasu · 1950not translated into EnglishAround 1950, one of the first long narratives in Tigrinya takes the form of a religious allegory.Literature
• Novelwägahta natsənätTeklai Zeweldi · 1954not translated into EnglishDuring the federation with Ethiopia, a novelist tells, in Tigrinya, the story of a family that opposes Italian colonisation from one generation to the next.Literature
• NovelMezghebe: Would You Say He Was Mad?Abidu do tibluwoBeyene Haile · 1965In Eritrea under the Ethiopian federation, a young author writes in Tigrinya the novel of a painter whom those around him consider mad.Literature
• NovelAsmara addioErminia Dell'Oro · 1988not translated into EnglishAt a time when Italy speaks little of its colonial past, a child of Asmara tells of the colony from the inside.Literature
• PoetryAulò. Canto-poesia dall'EritreaRibka Sibhatu · 1993not translated into EnglishAn Eritrean woman takes up her country's oral poetry to tell of her life and of exile, in a bilingual edition.Literature
• CinemaBarud 77Bereket Yowhannes · 1996A few years after independence, former amateurs found a national cinema in Tigrinya, nourished by the war.Cinema

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