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• TaleMärchen und Gedichte aus der Stadt Tripolis in NordafrikaHans Stumme · 1898not translated into EnglishThe tales and songs that the inhabitants of Tripoli told one another at the end of Ottoman rule, recorded in their own speech.Literature
• Poetryديوان سليمان البارونيSulayman al-Baruni · 1908not translated into EnglishA collection printed in Egypt by its author himself, on the press he had founded there, three years before Italy invaded his country.LiteraturePublic domain
• Poetryأحلام وثورةAli Sidqi Abdelkader · 1957not translated into EnglishA collection published in Egypt at the time when Libyan poetry was breaking away from the inherited qasida to adopt forms from elsewhere.Literature
• Short storiesمن القصص القوميZaima al-Baruni · 1958not translated into EnglishStories drawing on Libyan history and legend, written in the first years of independence, when the very idea of a woman writer was still debated in the country.Literature
• Novelاعترافات إنسانMohammed Farid Sayala · 1961not translated into EnglishThe novel that many Libyan critics hold to be the country's first, a plea for the emancipation of women.Literature
• Poetryديوان شاعر الوطن الكبيرAhmed Rafiq al-Mahdawi · 1965not translated into EnglishThe posthumous collection of the man Libya called its national poet, in the time of the Italian occupation and of exile.Literature
• Poetryالليل والسنون الملعونةAli al-Regeie · 1966not translated into EnglishA collection published in the year of its author's death, in which a self-taught poet of Tripoli describes what the kingdom has done to his city.Literature
• Poetryديوان البلبل والوكرIbrahim al-Asta Umar · 1967not translated into EnglishThe posthumous collection of a blind poet of Tripoli, whose verses had circulated by word of mouth under the Italian occupation.LiteraturePublic domain
• Novelمن مكة إلى هناSadeq al-Neihum · 1970not translated into EnglishA black fisherman of Cyrenaica confronts the beliefs of his village and the authority of the imam.Literature
• Poetryتذاكر للجحيمMohamed Shaltami · 1970not translated into EnglishThe first collection by a schoolteacher from Benghazi, published at the same time as a magazine that carried it to its readers, the year after the military coup.Literature
• Cinemaعندما يقسو القدرAbdallah al-Zarrouq · 1973The film belongs to Libyan production of the 1970s, entirely controlled by the state after the revolution of 1969.Cinema
• CinemaLion of the DesertMoustapha Akkad · 1981Years of Bedouin guerrilla warfare against Fascist Italy, in a superproduction financed by the Libyan state.Cinema
• Short storiesأربع عشرة قصة من مدينتيKamel Maghur · 1982not translated into EnglishShort stories about old Tripoli, written by a jurist who was also a statesman.Literature
• CinemaالشظيةMohamed Ali al-Ferjani · 1986The mines of the Second World War, never cleared from the Libyan desert, were still killing forty years after the fighting.Cinema
• NovelGold DustالتبرIbrahim al-Koni · 1990A Tuareg and his spotted mehari, in a Sahara where gold corrupts what beauty had made sacred.Literature
• NovelGardens of the Nightسأهبك مدينة أخرىAhmed Fagih · 1991The crisis of a Libyan intellectual, between memories, depression and dreams of the future, in a Libya transformed by oil.Literature
• Novelهذه أناSharifa al-Qiyadi · 1994not translated into EnglishThe novel of one of the first Libyan women novelists, about a woman facing the men in her life and custom.Literature
• Novelليالي نجمةKhalifa Hussein Mustafa · 1999not translated into EnglishA many-voiced novel about prostitutes in Tripoli at the time of Libyan independence.Literature

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