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- PoetryThe Exaltation of InannaNin-me-šaraEnheduanna · -2300A Sumerian hymn to the goddess Inanna, in which a high priestess of Ur, deprived of her office, asks for redress.Literature
- EpicThe Sumerian Poems of GilgameshBilgameshAnonymous · -2100The oldest tales about Gilgamesh, in Sumerian, well before the Akkadian version that took up several of their episodes.Literature
- EpicThe Epic of Gilgameshša naqba īmuruAnonymous · -1200A tyrannical king, a lost friend and the quest for eternal life, in the Babylonian version in twelve tablets.Literature
- NarrativeThe Book of Misersكتاب البخلاءal-Jahiz · 850Letters and anecdotes about misers, gathered in the ninth century by the great prose writer of Basra.LiteraturePublic domain
- Essayكتاب البديعIbn al-Mu'tazz · 887not translated into EnglishThe ornaments of Arabic poetry, classified by a learned prince to defend the modern poets of his time.Literature
- NarrativeImposturesمقامات الحريريal-Hariri · 1110Fifty tales in rhymed prose about the tricks of an eloquent swindler, composed at the turn of the twelfth century.Literature
- TaleOne Thousand and One Nightsألف ليلة وليلةAnonymous · 1400Nested tales from Persia, India and the Arab world, which a female storyteller sets against death.Literature
- NarrativeMemoirs of a Babylonian PrincessMaria Theresa Asmar · 1844The Ottoman Orient told by a Chaldean woman from Baghdad, on her way to Europe.Literature
- Poetryديوان الرصافيMaruf al-Rusafi · 1910not translated into EnglishAn Iraqi neoclassicist who bends the ancient metre to the causes of his time, from the end of the Ottoman Empire to the British mandate.LiteraturePublic domain
- Poetryديوان الزهاويJamil Sidqi al-Zahawi · 1924not translated into EnglishReason and science defended in classical verse, in the Baghdad of the twenties.Literature
- Poetryديوان الجواهريMuhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri · 1935not translated into EnglishThe poet of Najaf who became a tribune in Baghdad, between the monarchy and the street, faithful to the ancient metre.Literature
- Novelالدكتور إبراهيمDhu al-Nun Ayyub · 1939not translated into EnglishA parvenu with a foreign degree in monarchy-era Iraq, drawn in caricature.Literature
- Poetryشظايا ورمادNazik al-Malaika · 1949not translated into EnglishThe manifesto of a new metre and its first poems, written in the aftermath of an epidemic.Literature
- Poetryأباريق مهشمةAbdul Wahab al-Bayati · 1954not translated into EnglishThe poor countryside and city of Iraq in the fifties, told in verse that breaks free of metre.Literature
- Cinemaفتنة وحسنHaidar Al-Omar · 1955Two cousins in love against a stepmother and custom, in the Iraqi countryside of the fifties.Cinema
- Novelژانی گەل (Janî Gel)Ibrahim Ahmad · 1956not translated into EnglishThe repression in Iraqi Kurdistan, seen by a man whom prison long tore away from his people.Literature
- Poetryأنشودة المطرBadr Shakir al-Sayyab · 1960not translated into EnglishModern Arabic poetry at its full strength: rain, exile and the myths of resurrection.Literature
- Novelالنخلة والجيرانGhaib Tu'ma Farman · 1966not translated into EnglishThe poor alleys of Baghdad during the war, in a novel regarded as the first great Iraqi novel.Literature
- NovelالوشمAbdul Rahman Majeed al-Rubaie · 1972not translated into EnglishAn activist broken by prison, in the unstable Iraq of 1958 to 1967.Literature
- Poetryالأخضر بن يوسف ومشاغلهSaadi Youssef · 1972not translated into EnglishA poet who gives himself a double to speak of ordinary days, in a low voice.Literature
- NovelThe Long Way Backالرجع البعيدFuad al-Takarli · 1980A Baghdad family on the eve of the 1963 coup, told by those who make it up.Literature
- NovelSaddam Cityأنا الذي رأىMahmoud Saeed · 1981An ordinary man crushed by the prisons of Baathist Iraq, without ever learning his crime.Literature
- NovelNaphtaleneحبات النفتالينAlia Mamdouh · 1986A girl's childhood in the Baghdad of the fifties, between a sick mother and a violent father.Literature
- NovelداباداHassan Mutlak · 1988not translated into EnglishA fatherless child in a village ruled by the tribe and by fear, in a single flow of language.Literature
- PoetryButterfly Valleyدەربەندی پەپوولە (Derbendî Pepûle)Sherko Bekas · 1991A long poem of mourning written in exile by a great Kurdish poet, in response to the massacres of 1988.Literature
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