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East Timor

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  • NarrativeLafaek DiakAnonymous · 1934not translated into EnglishA legend about the birth of the island, told in the languages of the country, in which the crocodile is a grandfather.Literature
  • PoetryBury My Heart on Mount RamelauEnterrem meu coração no RamelauAnonymous · 1982The poetry of the Timorese resistance, gathered in Luanda seven years after the Indonesian invasion.Literature
  • PoetryA Voz Fagueira de Oan TímorFernando Sylvan · 1993not translated into EnglishThe island has been occupied by Indonesia since 1975, and a poet born in Díli gathers what he has written about it.Literature
  • NovelThe Crossing: A Story of East TimorCrónica de uma Travessia: A Época do Ai-Dik-FunamLuís Cardoso · 1997A Timorese youth under colonisation, then exile in Lisbon, following the story of a father.Literature
  • PoetryMar MeuXanana Gusmão · 1998not translated into EnglishThe poems and paintings of the leader of the Timorese resistance, made in an Indonesian prison.Literature
  • NovelAndanças de um TimorensePonte Pedrinha · 1998not translated into EnglishThe exile of a deeply devout young Timorese man, between Ataúro, Darwin and Portugal.Literature