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  • TheatreThe GüegüenceEl GüegüenseAnonymous · 1883A masked dance farce of the colonial era, in which an old man's cunning stands up to the Spanish governor of a province and his officers.Literature
  • TaleAzul…Rubén Darío · 1888not translated into EnglishTales and verse written in Chile by a young journalist from Central America, in which he speaks of the artist's condition in a society ruled by money.Literature
  • PoetryTropical Town and Other PoemsSalomón de la Selva · 1918Poems written in English in New York by a young Nicaraguan during the First World War, between nostalgia for his native country and the view he takes of North America.Literature
  • PoetryBello tono menorAzarías H. Pallais · 1928not translated into EnglishThe poems of a provincial priest who preferred the poor church to honours, in an unadorned language.Literature
  • PoetryTardes de oroAlfonso Cortés · 1934not translated into EnglishPoems of metaphysics and sensation, published by his family while a mental crisis had kept their author confined for years.Literature
  • PoetryEl paraíso recobradoCarlos Martínez Rivas · 1943not translated into EnglishA love song written on leaving adolescence, which retells in its own way the story of the first couple.Literature
  • NovelAlmidónManolo Cuadra · 1945not translated into EnglishAn attack on the dictatorship, written by a journalist whom the regime had placed under house arrest in a provincial town.Literature
  • PoetryZero HourHora 0Ernesto Cardenal · 1957A poem about the dictatorships of the isthmus and the fruit companies, written by a man who had taken part in a conspiracy against Somoza.Literature
  • PoetryPoemas de un jovenJoaquín Pasos · 1962not translated into EnglishThe work of an avant-garde poet from Granada, which remained in journals and manuscripts during his lifetime, gathered according to the plan he had left.Literature
  • NovelTrágame tierraLizandro Chávez Alfaro · 1969not translated into EnglishA novel of fathers and sons on the country's Atlantic coast, between the dream of a canal and the guerrilla war against the Somozas.Literature
  • NovelEl comandanteFernando Silva · 1969not translated into EnglishThe fictionalised portrait of a father, a legendary figure of a river, written the way Nicaraguans speak.Literature
  • PoetryPól-la d'anánta katánta parántaJosé Coronel Urtecho · 1970not translated into EnglishHalf a century of verse by a master of the Nicaraguan avant-garde, who places what he translated among what he wrote.Literature
  • PoetrySongs of Cifar and the Sweet SeaCantos de CifarPablo Antonio Cuadra · 1971A humble epic in which a sailor from Nicaragua replays the Odyssey on the scale of the islands and the fishermen.Literature
  • PoetryLlama guardadaVidaluz Meneses · 1974not translated into EnglishThe first collection of a Nicaraguan woman poet, lyrical, intimate and discreetly committed.Literature
  • PoetrySobrevivoClaribel Alegría · 1978not translated into EnglishPoems of mourning, written from Europe by a poet whom repression in Central America was depriving, one by one, of her loved ones.Literature
  • PoetryThe Earth Is a Satellite of the MoonLa tierra es un satélite de la lunaLeonel Rugama · 1978The poems of a young Nicaraguan poet who died at twenty, between Christian faith, social anger and the language of the Bible.Literature
  • NarrativeFire from the MountainLa montaña es algo más que una inmensa estepa verdeOmar Cabezas · 1982The testimony of a León student turned guerrilla, told the way people talk and awarded a prize in Havana.Literature
  • NovelDivine PunishmentCastigo divinoSergio Ramírez · 1988A novel built on a case of poisonings that gripped León on the eve of the Somoza dictatorship.Literature
  • NovelThe Inhabited WomanLa mujer habitadaGioconda Belli · 1988A novel about a woman's commitment to the guerrilla struggle, in which magical realism links the modern guerrilla to the Indian resistance of the early colonial period.Literature
  • Feature filmThe Ghost of WarEl espectro de la guerraRamiro Lacayo Deshon · 1988A fiction film shot during the Contra war, with Cuban, Mexican and Spanish partners.Cinema