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  • EpicIboniaAnonymous · 1830The great heroic tale of the island, in which a child prodigy sets out to win back his betrothed.Literature
  • PoetryNy anayNy Avana Ramanantoanina · 1912not translated into EnglishA love poem from the author's youth, published in 1912, long before his relegation to Mayotte.Literature
  • PoetryIzay ho feoko eo am-pialana ainaSamuel Ratany · 1927not translated into EnglishA poem about death, published in a Tananarive magazine six months after its author's own.Literature
  • TheatreSangy maheryRodlish · 1931not translated into EnglishA Malagasy tragedy of the thirties, still performed in the theatres of Antananarivo.Literature
  • NovelBinaAuguste Rajaonarivelo · 1933not translated into EnglishTwo betrothed from Farafangana separated by their studies, in Madagascar in the thirties.Literature
  • PoetryTranslated from the NightTraduit de la nuitJean-Joseph Rabearivelo · 1935Thirty poems born of two languages at once, between the Malagasy highlands and the night.Literature
  • PoetryNy HirakoDox · 1941not translated into EnglishThe first collection, in Malagasy, of the poet whom the island's schools have pupils of all ages read.Literature
  • PoetryAntsaJacques Rabemananjara · 1948not translated into EnglishA hymn to Madagascar written behind bars by a poet sentenced after the revolt of 1947.Literature
  • PoetryLa Nymphe dorée ou Fleur d'AndraikibaFidelis Justin Rabetsimandranto · 1958not translated into EnglishA legend of Lake Andraikiba, put into French verse by a Malagasy poet in 1958.Literature
  • NovelFofombadikoE. D. Andriamalala · 1962not translated into EnglishA lover's quest at the time of the insurrection of 1947, a Malagasy school classic translated into French in 2020.Literature
  • CinemaSaribaoHugues Raharimanantsoa · 1970One of the first Malagasy fictions: a peasant who has come to sell his goods in town, in a few minutes.Cinema
  • CinemaTranon-kalaRichard Claude Ratovonarivo · 1971One of the first Malagasy works of fiction: a man, before his execution, looks back over his life.Cinema
  • CinemaL'AccidentBenoît Ramampy · 1972A twenty-nine-minute fiction film, shot with a camera lent from Paris, on the inequality between rich and poor in Madagascar.Cinema
  • CinemaAsakasakaJustin Limby Maharavo · 1973A pregnancy outside marriage, the subject of one of the first fiction films shot in Madagascar, in 1973.Cinema
  • NovelMitaraina ny tanyAndry Andraina · 1975not translated into EnglishA Malagasy novel of peasant life under colonisation, long read in Malagasy alone, translated into French in 2023.Literature
  • PoetrySimple voyelleEsther Nirina · 1980not translated into EnglishVerses written on the banks of the Loire by a poet born in the Malagasy highlands.Literature
  • CinemaIlo tsy verySolo Ignace Randrasana · 1987The Malagasy uprising of 1947 and its repression, told by a child who survived them, in a film co-produced with Algeria.Cinema
  • CinemaTabatabaRaymond Rajaonarivelo · 1988The uprising of 1947 and its repression, seen through a child from the eastern coast.Cinema
  • NovelLe Bain des reliquesMichèle Rakotoson · 1988not translated into EnglishThe first novel of a Malagasy woman writer, about a journalist confronted with a royal rite on an impoverished island.Literature
  • Short storiesLucarneJean-Luc Raharimanana · 1996not translated into EnglishTwelve stories of Malagasy poverty, written in a lyrical language drawn from oral tradition.Literature