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  • EssayLa muerte del Mariscal LópezJuan Silvano Godoi · 1905not translated into EnglishThe first text of the Paraguayan quarrel over the death of López, whom some regard as a martyr and others as the gravedigger of the country.Literature
  • PoetryCanto secularEloy Fariña Núñez · 1911not translated into EnglishA centenary poem, written far from the country by a poet who had left it as a child.Literature
  • PoetryEn la fiesta de la razaGuillermo Molinas Rolón · 1913not translated into EnglishThe 1913 poem that gave its name to the guarania, the Paraguayan musical genre born twelve years later.Literature
  • PoetrySurgenteManuel Ortiz Guerrero · 1922not translated into EnglishThe first book, in Spanish, by the poet whose verses the whole country sings.Literature
  • DocumentaryIn the Hell of ChacoEn el infierno del ChacoRoque Funes · 1932A South American war filmed while it was being fought, by a cameraman who came without having been sent.Cinema
  • PoetryEl precio de los sueñosJosefina Plá · 1934not translated into EnglishThe first collection of the woman poet who renewed Paraguayan poetry in the twentieth century.Literature
  • PoetryDías roturadosElvio Romero · 1948not translated into EnglishThe verses of a very young fighter defeated in the civil war, published on the other side of the border.Literature
  • PoetryCeniza redimidaHérib Campos Cervera · 1950not translated into EnglishThe verse of a banished man, gathered in Buenos Aires three years after his flight from the country.Literature
  • NovelLa babosaGabriel Casaccia · 1952not translated into EnglishA lakeside town near Asunción, painted without indulgence from exile.Literature
  • CinemaCodiciaCatrano Catrani · 1955A drama of the subtropical forest, in which gold found on a dead man stirs up greed.Cinema
  • CinemaThunder Among the LeavesEl trueno entre las hojasArmando Bó · 1958A labour dispute at a logging operation, filmed in Paraguay from a screenplay by the future author of I the Supreme.Cinema
  • CinemaLa sangre y la semillaAlberto Du Bois · 1959The war seen not through the battles but through those who survive on the margins, a woman about to give birth and a wounded soldier.Cinema
  • PoetryAyvu RapytaAnonymous · 1959not translated into EnglishThe sacred chants of the Mbyá-Guaraní, in which the word precedes the creation of the world.Literature
  • PoetryLos arcángeles ebriosRoque Vallejos · 1964not translated into EnglishThe verses of a twenty-one-year-old medical student, turned toward nothingness.Literature
  • CinemaEl puebloCarlos Saguier and Jesús Ruiz Nestosa · 1969The ordinary life of a Paraguayan town under the dictatorship, filmed by a collective of young filmmakers.Cinema
  • Short storiesOjo por dienteRubén Bareiro Saguier · 1971not translated into EnglishThe story collection of a Paraguayan poet of exile, awarded a prize in Havana and published in translation before the original.Literature
  • NovelI the SupremeYo el SupremoAugusto Roa Bastos · 1974The country's first dictator, trapped by his own dictation, in a fragmented form that questions the writing of power.Literature
  • CinemaCerro CoraCerro CoráGuillermo Vera · 1978The great conflict of 1864-1870 brought to the screen under the Stroessner dictatorship, which financed the film and made it a tribute to Marshal López.Cinema
  • PoetryEl gallo de la alquería y otros compuestosÓscar Ferreiro · 1987not translated into EnglishThe popular romances of a surveyor poet, who was also the introducer of surrealism in his country.Literature
  • NovelLa isla sin marJuan Bautista Rivarola Matto · 1987not translated into EnglishThe last part of a novel trilogy on the history of Paraguay, between myth and chronicle.Literature
  • NovelThe Knots of SilenceLos nudos del silencioRenée Ferrer · 1988The first novel of a writer from Asunción, in which a couple travelling in Paris reveal the Paraguayan dictatorship.Literature
  • CinemaThe Call of the OboeO toque do oboéClaudio MacDowell · 1998A sleepy small town awakened by the music of a stranger and by old silent films, in a Brazilian-Paraguayan film.Cinema