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• TheatreLa política del mundoVíctor de la Guardia y Ayala · 1809not translated into EnglishRome and Caesar as a mirror of Napoleon, in a provincial town of the isthmus, in 1809.Literature
• PoetryFe, esperanza y caridad. ¡Quédate así!Tomás Martín Feuillet · 1886not translated into EnglishA flower that will become the national emblem of the country, sung by a Romantic poet half a century before that country existed.LiteraturePublic domain
• Short storiesHoras lejanasDarío Herrera · 1903not translated into EnglishModernist tales written far from the isthmus, between Valparaíso, Peru and Buenos Aires, by a Panamanian who came from journalism.Literature
• PoetryAl Cerro AncónAmelia Denis de Icaza · 1906not translated into EnglishA Panamanian woman in her seventies mourns the hill of her childhood, which became American ground with the building of the canal.Literature
• PoetryMy CountryPatriaRicardo Miró · 1909A poet posted abroad who discovers, through distance, what his young country means to him.Literature
• PoetryCristo y la mujer de SicharGaspar Octavio Hernández · 1918not translated into EnglishA biblical scene taken up by a poor young poet of the isthmus, who uses it to question injustice in this world.Literature
• PoetryOrquídeasMaría Olimpia de Obaldía · 1926not translated into EnglishThe first collection by a schoolteacher from Chiriquí, who made motherhood and the home the matter of her verse.Literature
• PoetryOndaRogelio Sinán · 1929not translated into EnglishA Panamanian student in Rome, steeped in the avant-gardes, who writes in free verse for a country that has remained modernist.Literature
• PoetryCumbiaDemetrio Korsi · 1935not translated into EnglishThe popular festival of the isthmus, its drums and its frictions with the American neighbour, in the language of the street.Literature
• NovelLa india dormidaJulio B. Sosa · 1936not translated into EnglishIndigenous resistance to the Spanish conquest, and a love story that neither side accepts.Literature
• PoetryPoemas de ausenciaRicardo J. Bermúdez · 1937not translated into EnglishThe first book of a twenty-three-year-old student, who will become an architect and build part of the capital.Literature
• NarrativeAn Historical and Ethnological Survey of the Cuna IndiansErland Nordenskiöld and Rubén Pérez Kantule · 1938The knowledge of a people of the isthmus, written down by one of its own and arranged by Swedish ethnographers.Literature
• NovelSan CristóbalRamón H. Jurado · 1944not translated into EnglishA ruined sugar mill, and the memory of the cane cutters who toiled there under unjust masters.Literature
• Short storiesLuna en VeraguasMario Augusto Rodríguez · 1948not translated into EnglishThe second collection by a schoolteacher from Veraguas turned journalist, between village festivals, love affairs and grudges.Literature
• Short storiesShumio-Ara: cuentos de Bocas del ToroJosé María Sánchez Borbón · 1948not translated into EnglishThe jungle, the rivers and the banana plantations of the Caribbean archipelago where the author was born.Literature
• NovelLuna verdeJoaquín Beleño · 1951not translated into EnglishThe American enclave on the isthmus during the war, seen through a young Panamanian worker who learns humiliation there.Literature
• NovelEl secreto de AntaturaLuisita Aguilera Patiño · 1953not translated into EnglishThe pre-Hispanic world told to young readers by a philologist of folklore.Literature
• NovelEl ahogadoTristán Solarte · 1957not translated into EnglishA Caribbean island of the isthmus where a boy's death awakens beliefs as much as suspicions.Literature
• NovelLos CapelliYolanda Camarano de Sucre · 1967not translated into EnglishA century of the isthmus told through the line of a family from elsewhere, whose ages are counted in building works.Literature
• NovelDejando atrás al hombre de celofánJusto Arroyo · 1971not translated into EnglishA Panamanian teacher facing the American enclave of the canal, between segregation and the desire for freedom.Literature
• NovelEl último juegoGloria Guardia · 1977not translated into EnglishThe crisis of a Panamanian bourgeoisie caught between the guerrillas and the canal negotiations, in the Torrijos years.Literature
• Short storiesFaragual y otros cuentosCarlos Francisco Changmarín · 1978not translated into EnglishThe peasants of Veraguas and their animals, facing the big ranchers, in the speech of the countryside.Literature
• NovelUna dama de primeraAcracia Sarasqueta de Smyth · 1979not translated into EnglishThe nineteenth century of the Colombian isthmus, its loves and its class prejudices, taken up by a novelist who had made it her domain.Literature
• NovelEl ataúd de usoRosa María Britton · 1982not translated into EnglishA pearl diver who makes himself a coffin: the first novel of a great Panamanian novelist.Literature

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