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  • Epicທ້າວຮຸ່ງທ້າວເຈືອງAnonymous · 1500not translated into EnglishThe most complete manuscript was found in Bangkok in 1941, and the book appeared only forty-six years later.Literature
  • EpicPhra Lak Phra LamພະລັກພະລາມAnonymous · 1500The great Indian epic spread throughout Southeast Asia, and each country received it by shifting it to its own setting.Literature
  • EpicPhya Khankhaak, the Toad KingພະຍາຄັນຄາກAnonymous · 1500The narrative explains why it rains, and villages still fire rockets into the sky so that it will continue.Literature
  • Epicຜາແດງນາງໄອ່Anonymous · 1500not translated into EnglishHere the landscape is told by telling the angers of those who live beneath the waters.Literature
  • ChronicleນິທານຂຸນບູຣົມAnonymous · 1520not translated into EnglishThe founding chronicle of Laos, between the myth of the celestial origins of the Tai peoples and royal history.Literature
  • EpicສິນໄຊPang Kham · 1650not translated into EnglishThe poem is so revered that its scenes adorn the walls of temples, and its verses are recited and sung throughout the country.Literature
  • NarrativeMaha Vessantara SadokAnonymous · 1799not translated into EnglishThe story of the Buddha's last life before the Awakening, the most chanted of the jatakas in Laos.Literature
  • PoetryສານລຶບພະສູນAnonymous · 1830not translated into EnglishThe Siamese armies have just destroyed Vientiane, and it will take a century and a half before this grief is read as that of a nation.Literature
  • NovelພະພຸດທະຮູບສັກສິດSomchine Nginn · 1944not translated into EnglishThe country's modern literature was born in the forties, under the protectorate, and its first novel is a detective novel.Literature
  • ChronicleHistory of LaosPhongsavadan LaoMaha Sila Viravong · 1957A country that has just gained independence needs an account of itself to give to its secondary-school pupils.Literature
  • CinemaLe PrintempsAnonymous · 1977Two years after the proclamation of the Republic, a film is needed to celebrate it, and the country has nothing to make one with.Cinema
  • Short storiesMother's Belovedແຜ່ນດິນແມ່Outhine Bounyavong · 1980Everything that is printed must serve the building of the regime, and it is still possible to describe a village without drawing a moral from it.Literature
  • CinemaSiang peun chak thong haiSomchith Pholsena · 1983Production in the eighties was entirely state-run and served the memory of the revolution.Cinema
  • CinemaບົວແດງSom-Ok Southiphone · 1988State cinema is made with the technical support of Vietnam and the Soviet Union, for lack of any equipment on the spot.Cinema
  • Short storiesLong su Thanon Lan XangBounthanong Somsaiphon · 1989not translated into EnglishThe country's prose breaks away from State realism without leaving the official journals, the only place where it can appear.Literature