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• TheatreThe Ship of HellAuto da Barca do InfernoGil Vicente · 1517Two boats await the dead at the edge of the other world, and each believes he knows which one is his.Literature
• TheatreOs EstrangeirosFrancisco de Sá de Miranda · 1528not translated into EnglishExiles quarrel over a marriage in a town in Sicily, in the manner of the Latins, before an audience that had known only the auto.Literature
• NovelMaiden and ModestMenina e MoçaBernardim Ribeiro · 1554A narrative of solitude and thwarted passions, in which an exiled woman listens to the misfortunes of others as she would to her own.Literature
• EpicThe LusiadsOs LusíadasLuís de Camões · 1572An epic in the classical manner for a real voyage: the discovery of the route to the Indies, under the eyes of rival gods.Literature
• PoetryO LimaDiogo Bernardes · 1596not translated into EnglishShepherds and letters to friends on the banks of a river in the north of Portugal, by a poet returned from captivity.Literature
• PoetryCamõesAlmeida Garrett · 1825The last years of Camões in Lisbon, sung by an exile who saw himself as a new Camões.Literature
• NovelDoomed LoveAmor de PerdiçãoCamilo Castelo Branco · 1862Two children of enemy families love each other without being able to speak to one another, and the justice of their fathers intervenes.Literature
• PoetryOdes ModernasAntero de Quental · 1865not translated into EnglishA twenty-three-year-old poet puts poetry at the service of the struggles of his century.Literature
• PoetryA Morte de D. JoãoAbílio Manuel Guerra Junqueiro · 1874not translated into EnglishThe seducer of legend is brought back to the nineteenth century and judged as the symptom of a society held to be sick.Literature
• NovelThe Crime of Father AmaroO Crime do Padre AmaroEça de Queiroz · 1876A newly arrived priest and the young woman at whose house he boards: the provincial town is already watching them.Literature
• TaleTales of Old LusitaniaContos populares portuguesesAdolfo Coelho · 1879Tales collected from storytellers by a philologist who considered this tradition almost erased in his country.Literature
• TaleContos Tradicionais do Povo PortuguêsTeófilo Braga · 1883not translated into EnglishTales from all over the country gathered by a scholar who wanted to read in them the soul of the nation.Literature
• EssayA Saudade PortuguesaCarolina Michaëlis de Vasconcelos · 1914not translated into EnglishA philologist takes seriously the word her country holds to be untranslatable, and looks for a history for it rather than a soul.Literature
• NovelLúcio's ConfessionA Confissão de LúcioMário de Sá-Carneiro · 1914A man released from prison writes to declare his innocence, and warns in advance that he will not be believed.Literature
• PoetryBook of SorrowsLivro de MágoasFlorbela Espanca · 1919A young poet speaks of sorrow and saudade in the decadent tone of the end of the century.Literature
• NovelJungleA SelvaJosé Maria Ferreira de Castro · 1930A young man from a good family finds himself tapping rubber trees in a system where the worker is in debt before he has even begun.Literature
• CinemaA SeveraJosé Leitão de Barros · 1931A tavern singer and a young noblewoman vie for the heart of a count, in the Lisbon of the bullfights.Cinema
• CinemaA Canção de LisboaCottinelli Telmo · 1933A student who does not study sees the aunts who think he is a doctor turn up.Cinema
• PoetryAs Encruzilhadas de DeusJosé Régio · 1936not translated into EnglishA poet stands between God and his own doubts, and makes of it a book of cries and confidences.Literature
• CinemaThe Song of the EarthA Canção da TerraJorge Brum do Canto · 1938On an island without rain, the only man who has water keeps it for himself, and also covets the woman his neighbour loves.Cinema
• NovelNome de GuerraJosé de Almada Negreiros · 1938not translated into EnglishA young provincial sent to Lisbon to learn about life becomes attached to a prostitute who knows that they are not made for each other.Literature
• CinemaAldeia da Roupa BrancaChianca de Garcia · 1939Two rival families of the same village make their living carrying the washed linen to the town and bringing back the dirty.Cinema
• CinemaThe Tyrant FatherO Pai TiranoAntónio Lopes Ribeiro · 1941A salesman in love hides from the woman he loves that he performs on the stage, because she swears only by the cinema.Cinema
• CinemaO Pátio das CantigasRibeirinho · 1942A drunkard and a grocer hate each other, court the same flower seller, and the June festival is coming to the courtyard.Cinema
• CinemaAniki-BóbóManoel de Oliveira · 1942Two kids from Porto fight over the only girl in the gang, and one of them does wrong to give her a present.Cinema
• CinemaO Costa do CasteloArthur Duarte · 1943To get close to a bank employee, a young aristocrat borrows a false name and a false trade.Cinema
• CinemaBlack CapesCapas NegrasArmando de Miranda · 1947A Coimbra student leaves to sing elsewhere and becomes famous; the woman he leaves behind is expecting his child.Cinema
• CinemaFado: Story of a SingerFado, História d'uma CantadeiraPerdigão Queiroga · 1947A singer from Alfama goes from the cabaret to touring in a few months, and the man who loves her talks of going very far away.Cinema
• PoetryAs Mãos e os FrutosEugénio de Andrade · 1948not translated into EnglishA book of youth in which love is written in the words of the earth and the seasons.Literature
• ChronicleRetalhos da Vida de um MédicoFernando Namora · 1949not translated into EnglishA doctor records in fragments what he meets in the poorest villages of the country, and what his science cannot do there.Literature
• CinemaThe CircusSaltimbancosManuel Guimarães · 1951A circus troupe has lost its big top, earns next to nothing and tries not to break up.Cinema
• NovelA SibilaAgustina Bessa-Luís · 1954not translated into EnglishIn a house in the North where the men dream, an uneducated young girl takes charge of the estate, and the country is astonished.Literature
• NovelWhen the Wolves HowlQuando os Lobos UivamAquilino Ribeiro · 1958A mountain village suddenly loses the pastures and woodland to which it had always had a right, without having been consulted.Literature
• PoetryNo Reino da DinamarcaAlexandre O'Neill · 1958not translated into EnglishA poet takes his country's mediocrity as his subject and the pun as his weapon, under a dictatorship that does not laugh.Literature
• NovelBarranco de CegosAlves Redol · 1961not translated into EnglishA great landowner defends the land of his forefathers against industry, finance and the Republic that is coming.Literature
• NovelHora di BaiManuel Ferreira · 1962not translated into EnglishIslanders driven from their homes by drought board a ship, and discover that hunger has gone before them.Literature
• CinemaDom RobertoErnesto de Sousa · 1962In the Lisbon of the poor, a homeless puppeteer and a young woman with no support invent a home for themselves.Cinema
• CinemaOs Verdes AnosPaulo Rocha · 1963Two young people from the provinces meet in a capital under construction, where the boy feels like a stranger.Cinema
• CinemaSunday AfternoonDomingo à TardeAntónio de Macedo · 1966A doctor who treated only the condemned sets his mind on saving one of them, the woman with whom he has just fallen in love.Cinema
• NovelO DelfimJosé Cardoso Pires · 1968not translated into EnglishTwo deaths and a disappearance in the house that held the country, and everyone sees to it that nothing becomes known.Literature
• CinemaThe CircleO CercoAntónio da Cunha Telles · 1970A young woman leaves her husband to live differently, in a city that closes in on her from all sides.Cinema
• EssayNew Portuguese LettersNovas Cartas PortuguesasMaria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta and Maria Velho da Costa · 1972Three women answer, across three centuries, a abandoned nun, and say everything that could not be said.Literature
• CinemaThe MessageO RecadoJosé Fonseca e Costa · 1972A young woman from good society is courted as is proper, while around her a generation gives up.Cinema
• CinemaA Bee in the RainUma Abelha na ChuvaFernando Lopes · 1972Two spouses who despise each other keep up their station in a silent countryside, under the eyes of their servants.Cinema
• CinemaOne Hundred Times LostPerdido por CemAntónio-Pedro Vasconcelos · 1973Having moved to the capital, a young man from the provinces finds radio, advertising and passions there, but no place for himself.Cinema
• CinemaO Mal-AmadoFernando Matos Silva · 1974A son of the lower middle class awaits his call-up in an office where his female boss looks at him like a dead man returned.Cinema
• PoetryCiclo do CavaloAntónio Ramos Rosa · 1975not translated into EnglishAn animal runs through an entire collection, and the poet seeks in it the strength and the breath of things.Literature
• NovelA Floresta em BremerhavenOlga Gonçalves · 1975not translated into EnglishA couple returned from Germany tell of their life in the summer of the revolution, and no one around them is speaking of the same thing.Literature
• CinemaBrandos CostumesAlberto Seixas Santos · 1975A bourgeois household lives through the decades of the dictatorship like a country in miniature.Cinema
• CinemaTrás-os-MontesMargarida Cordeiro · 1976In an almost emptied northern province, the gestures of daily life and the ancient legends settle one upon another.Cinema
• NovelSigns of FireSinais de FogoJorge de Sena · 1979A student on holiday by the sea sees the war next door reach his town, and discovers himself at once as activist and poet.Literature
• NovelThe Land at the End of the WorldOs Cus de JudasAntónio Lobo Antunes · 1979A man talks all night to a stranger in a bar, and tells of only one thing.Literature
• CinemaMorning UnderseaManhã SubmersaLauro António · 1980A child of servants is sent to the seminary through the charity of a rich lady, and no one asked for his opinion.Cinema
• CinemaThe Other OneConversa AcabadaJoão Botelho · 1981Two poets separated by distance write to each other for years and together reinvent their language.Cinema
• CinemaSilvestreJoão César Monteiro · 1981A girl of good family takes up armour and a man's name to go in search of her father, in a painted Middle Ages.Cinema
• NovelBaltasar and BlimundaMemorial do ConventoJosé Saramago · 1982An immense convent is built while, next to it, three people try to make a machine fly.Literature
• DiaryThe Book of DisquietLivro do DesassossegoFernando Pessoa · 1982An assistant bookkeeper in Lisbon keeps a diary in which nothing happens, and which he will never finish.Literature
• CinemaO BoboJosé Álvaro Morais · 1987A theatre company rehearses an old play in a country that has just changed, while the present grows more complicated.Cinema
• NovelThe Murmuring CoastA Costa dos MurmúriosLídia Jorge · 1988An officers' wedding in Africa, and a young bride for whom the official versions cease to be enough.Literature

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