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• PoetryYandubayú y LiropeyaAdolfo Berro · 1842not translated into EnglishA legend of the conquest, taken up by a young Romantic poet of Montevideo three centuries later.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryTabaréJuan Zorrilla de San Martín · 1888not translated into EnglishThe son of a Charrúa cacique and a Spanish captive, caught between two peoples in the time of the conquest.Literature
• NovelSoledadEduardo Acevedo Díaz · 1894not translated into EnglishAn estancia in the Uruguayan countryside, where a singing gaucho who has come from nowhere disturbs the order of the estate.Literature
• EssayReseña histórico-descriptiva de antiguas y modernas supersticiones del Río de la PlataDaniel Granada · 1896not translated into EnglishThe two banks of the great estuary at the end of the nineteenth century, where a jurist based in Salto records the beliefs of the countryside.Literature
• TheatreDown the GullyBarranca abajoFlorencio Sánchez · 1905The Uruguayan countryside at the beginning of the century, where an old landowner stripped of his property by the men of the law also loses his family.Literature
• PoetryLa torre de las esfingesJulio Herrera y Reissig · 1909not translated into EnglishA poem of night and verbal delirium, on the borders of modernism and the avant-gardes.Literature
• PoetryLos cálices vacíosDelmira Agustini · 1913Montevideo in 1913, where a young woman gives desire a woman's voice, at the heart of modernismo.Literature
• Short storiesTales of Love, Madness and DeathCuentos de amor de locura y de muerteHoracio Quiroga · 1917Stories of forest, river and brothel, in which passion and illness lead to death.Literature
• NarrativeEl cántaro frescoJuana de Ibarbourou · 1920not translated into EnglishThe rural interior of Uruguay, its scorching summers and its arbours, seen by a young mother.Literature
• NovelCastanetsEl embrujo de SevillaCarlos Reyles · 1922A Seville of festival and fervour, seen through its dancers, its singers and its bullfighters.Literature
• PoetryPoemas montevideanosEmilio Frugoni · 1923not translated into EnglishMontevideo in the early twenties, its squares, its trams and its conventillos.Literature
• Feature filmSouls on the CoastAlmas de la costaJuan Antonio Borges · 1923The Montevideo shoreline in the early twenties, among poor fishermen threatened by tuberculosis.Cinema
• PoetryLa colina del pájaro rojoEmilio Oribe · 1925not translated into EnglishThe hills and plains of the Uruguayan interior, seen by a poet who is also a philosopher.Literature
• Feature filmTwo DestiniesDos destinosJuan Etchebehere · 1937Montevideo in the thirties, between brothels and barracks, seen through two brothers.Cinema
• CinemaVocation?¿Vocación?Rina Massardi · 1938A young woman of modest means dreams of opera, in the first lyric film of South America.Cinema
• Feature filmRadio CandelarioRafael Abella · 1939Montevideo in 1939, when a radio star moves into cinema.Cinema
• PoetryCantoSara de Ibáñez · 1940not translated into EnglishMontevideo at the beginning of the Second World War, where a thirty-one-year-old poet publishes her first book.Literature
• Feature filmThe Three MusketeersLos tres mosqueterosJulio Saraceni · 1946Montevideo in the mid-forties, where a musketeer adventure is being filmed.Cinema
• PoetryAntología líricaSarah Bollo · 1948not translated into EnglishMontevideo in the late forties, when a poet who is also a critic gathers her verse.Literature
• Feature filmAsí te deseoBelisario García Villar · 1948The Uruguayan studios of the late forties, where films are shot for Argentine screens.Cinema
• NarrativeThe Daisy DollsLas HortensiasFelisberto Hernández · 1949A bourgeois house where display cases of dolls blur the boundary between things and people.Literature
• NovelA Brief LifeLa vida breveJuan Carlos Onetti · 1950Buenos Aires around 1950, where a man whose life is threatened splits himself in two by inventing a city.Literature
• PoetryConcierto de amor y otros poemasEsther de Cáceres · 1951not translated into EnglishA mystical poetry in which human love and the quest for God cannot be separated.Literature
• Feature filmPrisoner 1040Procesado 1040Rubén W. Cavallotti · 1958An Argentine prison of the fifties, where an old man guilty of no great crime becomes a number.Cinema
• NovelThe Truce: The Diary of Martín SantoméLa treguaMario Benedetti · 1960Montevideo, in the ordered life of an office clerk nearing retirement.Literature
• Short filmComo el Uruguay no hayUgo Ulive · 1960Uruguay in 1960, a “little democratic paradise” that the film mocks.Cinema
• NovelEl paredónCarlos Martínez Moreno · 1963not translated into EnglishHavana and Montevideo in 1959, when a journalist has to say what he thinks of the revolution and its executions.Literature
• EssayOpen Veins of Latin AmericaLas venas abiertas de América LatinaEduardo Galeano · 1971Latin America from the conquest to the seventies, read as the history of a plunder.Literature
• Feature filmMataron a Venancio FloresJuan Carlos Rodríguez Castro · 1982Uruguay in 1868, when the country's two parties tear each other apart to the point of murder.Cinema
• PoetryEl ciervo radianteOrfila Bardesio · 1984not translated into EnglishMontevideo in the eighties, where a poet who has returned from the provinces sings of a Christ figured as a stag.Literature
• NovelThe Ship of FoolsLa nave de los locosCristina Peri Rossi · 1984Europe at the end of the twentieth century, seen by an exile who settles nowhere.Literature
• Novel¡Bernabé, Bernabé!Tomás de Mattos · 1988not translated into EnglishUruguay in 1831, when the army exterminates the Charrúas, reread a hundred and fifty years later.Literature
• Feature filmMestizoMario Handler · 1988Venezuela in the eighties, where an exiled Uruguayan documentary maker shoots a fiction film about a fishing village.Cinema
• Feature filmThe Almost True Story of Pepita the GunslingerLa historia casi verdadera de Pepita la PistoleraBeatriz Flores Silva · 1993Montevideo in the late eighties, where a polite thief becomes the star of the newspapers.Cinema
• Feature filmThe AirshipEl dirigiblePablo Dotta · 1994Montevideo in the early nineties, a city without memory that one tries to tell through images.Cinema
• Feature filmGardel: Echoes of SilenceGardel, ecos del silencioPablo Rodríguez · 1997Montevideo at the end of the twentieth century, where the birthplace of a tango singer is still disputed with France.Cinema
• Feature filmThe Life Jacket Is Under Your SeatEl ChevroléLeonardo Ricagni · 1999Montevideo in the late nineties, in the time of carnival and its drums.Cinema
• NovelThe Letters That Never CameLas cartas que no llegaronMauricio Rosencof · 2000A neighbourhood of Montevideo during the Second World War, then the cell of a political prisoner.Literature

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