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  • ChronicleThe Huarochirí ManuscriptRuna ynº niscap MachoncunaAnonymous · 1608The myths of the Andean communities of Huarochirí, set down in Quechua at the very time when the Church was working to make them disappear.Literature
  • TheatreApu OllantayOllantayAntonio Valdés · 1770A drama in Quechua verse known from eighteenth-century copies, whose origin, an Inca legend brought to the stage or a play written in colonial Peru, remains disputed.Literature
  • NarrativeEl Lazarillo: A Guide for Inexperienced Travelers between Buenos Aires and LimaEl lazarillo de ciegos caminantesAlonso Carrió de la Vandera · 1775In the time of the Bourbon reforms, the great postal road of colonial Peru, seen by the agent of the Crown charged with reforming it.LiteraturePublic domain
  • TheatreFrutos de la educaciónFelipe Pardo y Aliaga · 1830not translated into EnglishLima in the aftermath of independence: a comedy of manners mocks the education of young Creoles and a popular dance that the salons judged lascivious.Literature
  • NarrativePeregrinations of a PariahPérégrinations d'une pariaFlora Tristan · 1838Arequipa and Lima in the early 1830s, seen by a Frenchwoman from an Arequipa family who came to claim an inheritance.Literature
  • TheatreÑa CatitaManuel Ascencio Segura · 1845not translated into EnglishLima in the middle of the nineteenth century: an old devout go-between sows discord in a family seeking the most brilliant match for its daughter.Literature
  • Short storiesPeruvian TraditionsTradiciones peruanasRicardo Palma · 1872Short tales between history and invention, drawn from the archives and memories of Lima, which recount colonial Peru in the spoken language of the city.Literature
  • PoetryPoesíasMariano Melgar · 1878not translated into EnglishArequipa in the time of the wars of independence: a young seminarian turned insurgent brings the love song of the Andes into learned poetry.Literature
  • NovelTorn from the NestAves sin nidoClorinda Matto de Turner · 1889An Andean village run by its notables, who live off the labour of the Indians, seen through the eyes of decent people who refuse to stay silent.Literature
  • EssayPáginas libresManuel González Prada · 1894not translated into EnglishPeru, defeated in the War of the Pacific: a radical orator draws from it an indictment of the oligarchy, the Church and the colonial legacy.Literature
  • PoetryAlma AméricaJosé Santos Chocano · 1906not translated into EnglishA Peruvian poet living in Madrid publishes there a collection that aims to give the New World back its voice.Literature
  • NovelA Dead RoseLa rosa muertaAurora Cáceres · 1914In the Berlin and Paris of the Belle Époque, a sick woman falls in love with the doctor who treats her: a short modernist novel written from the heroine's side.Literature
  • PoetryLa canción de las figurasJosé María Eguren · 1916not translated into EnglishA poet withdrawn in Barranco, at the turn of modernism, builds a world of mists, colours and enigmatic figures.Literature
  • Short storiesEl caballero CarmeloAbraham Valdelomar · 1918not translated into EnglishThe coastal province of Peru seen at a child's height: stories that give the ordinary life of Pisco a new dignity in the country's letters.LiteraturePublic domain
  • Short storiesCuentos andinosEnrique López Albújar · 1920not translated into EnglishThe Indian communities of the Sierra of Huánuco, seen by a judge who recognises in them a justice of their own and refuses to make victims of them.Literature
  • PoetryTrilceCésar Vallejo · 1922Peru in the early twenties: an Andean poet, marked by grief and confinement, breaks the Spanish language to speak of love, death and family.Literature
  • CinemaLuis PardoEnrique Cornejo Villanueva · 1927The Andes at the beginning of the century and an outlaw of honour turned popular legend, in one of the country's first fiction feature films.Cinema
  • Poetry5 Meters of Poems5 metros de poemasCarlos Oquendo de Amat · 1927A five-metre accordion book, the only one by an Andean poet who died at thirty.Literature
  • CinemaLa PerricholiEnzo Longhi · 1928Colonial Lima in the eighteenth century, reconstructed around an actress who became the viceroy's favourite.Cinema
  • NovelThe Cardboard HouseLa casa de cartónMartín Adán · 1928An adolescence in Barranco, in fragments of poetic prose written by a sixteen-year-old boy.Literature
  • CinemaBajo el sol de LoretoAntonio Wong Rengifo · 1936The Amazon of the rubber settlers, filmed in Iquitos with the codes of the western and forest dwellers as extras.Cinema
  • PoetryDescubrimiento del albaXavier Abril · 1937not translated into EnglishEmerging from the avant-garde, a Peruvian poet returned from Spain goes back to measured verse and the Castilian lyric tradition.Literature
  • NovelBroad and Alien Is the WorldEl mundo es ancho y ajenoCiro Alegría · 1941The Indian communities of the Andes confronting the expansion of the great estates, in a novel that gives a voice to the comuneros.Literature
  • CinemaLa lunarejaBernardo Roca Rey · 1946Lima at the end of Spanish rule, seen by a girl of the people in love with a patriot and taking refuge on the side of the besieged.Cinema
  • Short storiesLos gallinazos sin plumasJulio Ramón Ribeyro · 1955not translated into EnglishLima in the fifties seen from below: inhabitants whom the city leaves at its edge, told without flourish and without apparent pity.Literature
  • PoetryThe Equestrian TurtleLa tortuga ecuestreCésar Moro · 1957Mexico at the end of the thirties: a Peruvian surrealist returns to his mother tongue for the length of a book of amorous passion.Literature
  • NarrativeEl pez de oroGamaliel Churata · 1957not translated into EnglishThe unclassifiable summa of the Andean indigenist avant-garde, between myth, poetry and philosophy, in three languages.Literature
  • NovelDeep RiversLos ríos profundosJosé María Arguedas · 1958The adolescence of a boy torn between the Indian world and the criollo world, told from the inside in a language shot through with Quechua.Literature
  • Poetry¡Oh hada cibernética!Carlos Germán Belli · 1961not translated into EnglishThe Lima of offices, in the early sixties: a poet who is an office employee asks the machines to deliver him from work.Literature
  • CinemaKukuliEulogio Nishiyama · 1961A pastoral myth of the Andes, that of the abducting bear, mingled with the festivities in honour of the Virgin of Carmen of Paucartambo, filmed by people from Cuzco in the language of the shepherds.Cinema
  • Short storiesLos inocentesOswaldo Reynoso · 1961not translated into EnglishThe teenage gangs of Lima, their slang and their desires, in a book that caused a scandal in 1961.Literature
  • NovelA World for JuliusUn mundo para JuliusAlfredo Bryce Echenique · 1970The oligarchy of Lima seen through a child who does not yet understand what separates his family from the people who serve it.Literature
  • CinemaThe Green WallLa muralla verdeArmando Robles Godoy · 1970The colonisation of the Amazon in the sixties, seen through a family from the city who clash there with nature and with the administration.Cinema
  • NovelDrums for RancasRedoble por RancasManuel Scorza · 1970Andean peasants facing an advancing fence and an all-powerful judge, between epic and magical realism.Literature
  • DocumentaryRunan CaycuNora de Izcue · 1973A peasant leader from the Andes himself tells, in his own language, the struggle for land that preceded the agrarian reform.Cinema
  • NovelAunt Julia and the ScriptwriterLa tía Julia y el escribidorMario Vargas Llosa · 1977The Lima of popular radio and of high society: a novel that mixes a youthful love with the parody of melodrama.Literature
  • CinemaCuentos inmoralesJosé Carlos Huayhuaca · 1978Four directors, four states of Lima society at the end of the military government, from the bourgeois drawing room to the poor neighbourhood.Cinema
  • CinemaLa familia OrozcoJorge Reyes · 1983Seventy years of the country's social history through a family of peasants turned workers, up to the great workers' strikes of Lima.Cinema
  • CinemaTúpac AmaruFederico García Hurtado · 1984The great indigenous rebellion of 1780 against colonial power, reconstructed with the communities of the lands where it broke out.Cinema
  • CinemaGregorioFernando Espinoza · 1985The Andean migration to the capital in the early eighties, seen from a child's height, between fiction and documentary.Cinema
  • CinemaLos Shapis en el mundo de los pobresJuan Carlos Torrico · 1985The chicha music of Andean migrants brought to the screen for the first time, in the manner of television comedy shows.Cinema
  • CinemaYawar fiesta: fiesta de sangreLuis Figueroa · 1986The conflict in an Andean town over an Indian festival that the powerful want to abolish, heard in Quechua as well as in Spanish.Cinema
  • CinemaLa fuga del chacalAugusto Tamayo San Román · 1987A thug from the capital, hunted from all sides, whose flight takes him as far as the Amazon.Cinema
  • CinemaLos ronderosMarianne Eyde · 1987Villages in the northern Andes that organise themselves into patrols against cattle thieves, told with those who took part in them.Cinema
  • CinemaThe Mouth of the WolfLa boca del loboFrancisco José Lombardi · 1988Peru's internal war in the time of the Shining Path, seen from a garrison lost in the Andes.Cinema
  • NovelDeseo de nocheAlonso Cueto · 1993not translated into EnglishAn ordinary man drawn into a crime by a stranger, in a short narrative that is part crime novel, part love story.Literature
  • CinemaCourageCorajeAlberto Durant · 1998The last years of a neighbourhood leader in the capital, caught between the guerrilla, the State and the wear of a city she had helped to build.Cinema