overview
WRITERS and DIRECTORS
Peru.
Susan Abulhawab
= The olives are ripe - refugee camp in Jenin, Palestine – 1953
César Augusto Acevedo
= Smoke and ash – Colombia – 2015 - film
Chinua Achebe
= 'We will drive out the whites now!' - a village in South-east Nigeria – around 1885
= The high priest stands alone - South-east Nigeria – the 1920s
Ciro Alegría
= 'Saint Isidore, don't desert us!' - a mountain village in Peru – 1912 (1)
= Shadow-puma - mountain region in Peru – around 1920 (1*)
= Famine - mountain region in Peru – around 1922 (2*)
= Moving - a mountain village in Peru – 1926 (2)
José María Arguedas
= The road - a village in Peru – 1930 (1)
= Misitu, the holy bull - a mountain village in Peru – around 1930 (2)
Carla Barbarella
= The Baobab - a village in the Sahel, Africa – 1999
Ufuk Bayraktar
= Cured - a village in Anatolia, Turkey – 2015 - film
Marco Bechis
= The young shaman - Mato Grosso do Sul, South-west Brazil – 2008 - film
Hakim Belabbes
= Ayoub - a hamlet in Central Morocco – 1999 - film
John Berger
= 'First they take your land and then your children' - French Alps – 1960
= From another world - French Alps – 1975
Bernlef
= Cheese sandwich - The Netherlands – 1945
Bernardo Bertolucci
= Olmo is growing up - an estate in Northern Italy – 1910 (1) - film
= The cavalry unit turns around - a village in Northern Italy – 1920 (2) - film
Okot p'Bitek
= Come back to your own Acoli people - Northern Uganda – 1966 (1)
= Progress - Northern Uganda – 1970 (2)
Michael Blake
= Bison hunting - Prairie in Colorado, United States – 1863 (1)
= The holy forest desecrated - Prairie in Colorado, United States – 1863 (2)
Icíar Bollaín
= The tree of grandpa - Castellón, Spanje – 2006 - film
Pearl Buck
= Famine - Anhui Province, China – around 1900 (1)
= Poor people in the big city - Anhui Province, China – around 1900 (2)
= The mother - a hamlet in the Zhejiang Province, China – about 1930
= Underground resistance - a village south of Nanjing, China – 1938
Jayro Bustamante
= The volcano - Ixcanul, Guatemala – 2015 - film
Peter Carey
= Almost drowned - a village in Victoria, Australia – 1866 (1)
= Birth party - New South Wales, Australia – 1879 (2)
Alejo Carpentier
= The poison - Haiti – around 1785 (1)
= Land surveyors - Haiti – around 1835 (2)
Bruce Chatwin
= Gas masks - a small village in Wales, United Kingdom – 1919
Boris Chlebnikov
= 'This is our land' - a village in the Aboriginal of Russia – 2016 - film
Souleymane Cissé
= Father and son - Mali – 13th century - film
Michael Curtiz and William Keighley
= 'The forest is large enough for a secret army' - Nottinghamshire, England – 1195 - film
Tsitsi Dangarembga
= Foster children - a village in Zimbabwe – 1996 - film
Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni
= Reconciliation - Gobi Desert, Mongolia – 2003 - film
Mahasweta Devi
= The investigation team - Bihar, India - 1970
= Hunting festival - Bihar, India - 1992
= The mysterious bird - a small village in Madhya Pradesh, India – 1993
Duong Thu Huong
= Class analysis - a small village in Vietnam – 1955 (1)
= Mayor Duong - a small village in Vietnam – 1989 (2)
Cyprian Ekwensi
= Sokugo, the wandering disease - savanna region, Nigeria – about 1925
Buchi Emecheta
= The bride price - a village in South-east Nigeria – 1953
Berni Goldblat
= The petty thief and his grandma - a village in Burkina Faso – 2017 - film
Marcelo Gomes
= On the run - Pernambuco, North-east Brazil – 1942 - film
Ashutosh Gowariker
= Cricket, a children's game? - a village in Gujarat, India – 1893 - film
Hans von Grimmelshausen
=Simplicissimus - a forest in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany – about 1630
Felipe Guerrero
= Paradise and hell - a hamlet in Colombia – 2014 - film
Ricardo Güiraldes
= My padrino - the pampas of Argentina – 1916
Yılmaz Güney
= A flock of sheep in the capital - Anatolia and Ankara, Turkey – 1978 - film
Knut Hamsun
= Piano tuner - Norway – 1906
= Pioneer - a remote village in Norway – 1917
Herman Heijermans
= Fear - a fishing village, the Netherlands – 1900
= Two hundred guilders in advance - a village in Friesland, the Netherlands – 1902
Ernest Hemingway
= The old fisherman - a fishing village on the coast of Cuba – 1951
Nâzım Hikmet
= The poet dreams – Karaburun, West Turkey – about 1400
= Black bombs - Anatolia, Turkey – 1922
Gyula Illyés
= As free as a bird - an estate in Hungary – 1910 (1)
= Serf or free servant? - an estate in Hungary – 1912 (2)
Shohei Imamura
= 'Narayama is waiting for us' - a remote mountain village in Japan –
in the 19th century - film
Elia Kazan and John Steinbeck
= Zapata, the beloved peasant leader - Morelos, South Mexico – 1919 - film
Yașar Kemal
= The good bandit - Taurus mountains, Turkey – around 1920
= The sly muhtar - Taurus Mountains, Turkey – around 1960 (1)
= The saint - Taurus Mountains, Turkey – around 1960 (2)
= Nobody talks to the muhtar any more - Taurus Mountains, Turkey – around 1960 (3)
Amanda Kernell
= 'Our reindeer are your reindeer' - mountain region in the Aboriginal of Sweden – 1930s - film
Mehboob Khan
= Happy years - a village in Maharashtra, India – 1937 - film
Kim Ki-duk
= Line of demarcation - Korea – 2016 - film
Elem Klimov
= Remorse - a village in Belarus – 1943 - film
Ahmadou Kourouma
= The wizard and the prince - a village in Western Africa – 1946
= The secret agreement - a village in Western Africa – 1968
Antjie Krog
= Praise poets – South African villages – nineteenth century
Akira Kurosawa
= The old samurai - a Japanese village – 1586 - film
= The fur trapper - Siberia, Russia – 1902 - film
Pablo Lamar
= So familiar - Paraguay – 2016 - film
Halldór Laxness
= The crossing - a river in Iceland – 1879
= The reindeer - a remote farm in the marshlands of Iceland – 1899 (1)
= Independent after thirty years - a remote farm in the marshlands of Iceland – 1911 (2)
= The founding of a union - a small village near a fjord in Iceland – 1921
= Rich for a few years - a remote farm in the marshlands of Iceland – 1922 (3)
Gavino Ledda
= Sheep thieves - Sardinia, Italy – 1945 (1)
= Locusts - Sardinia, Italy – 1945 (2)
= 'Half is half' - Sardinia, Italy – 1956 (3)
Ang Lee
= Impossible plans - a nature reserve in Wyoming, US – 1973 - film
Werewere Liking
= The basis of my life - a village in Cameroon – 1958 (1)
= Revenge - a village in Cameroon – 1958 (2)
Mahmut Makal
= Village schoolteacher - a village in Anatolia, Turkey – 1948 (1)
= The bullock is worn out - a village in Anatolia, Turkey – 1948 (2)
David Malouf
= Black or white? - Queensland, North Australia – about 1860
Yukio Mishima
= The sea god favours them - a small Japanese island – 1954
Kenji Mizoguchi
= Blinded - a small village in Japan – sixteenth century - film
Mo Yan
= Crab hunt - Gaomi District, Shandong Province, China – 1934 (1)
= The fox ghost - Gaomi District, Shandong Province, China – 1937 (2)
= Aunty is a goddess - Gaomi District, Shandong Province, China – 1967 (1*)
= First a goddess, now a demon - Gaomi District, Shandong Province, China – 1970 (2*)
= 'Take me back' - Gaomi District, Shandong Province, China – 1985 (3)
= The garlic rebellion - Shandong Province, China – 1986
Afia Nathaniel
= Happiness and sorrows - Pakistan – 2014 - film
Hugo Neira Samanez
= The Indian peasant leader - a hacienda in Peru – 1938
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
= Discord in the village - a village in Kenya – about 1930
= 'The most beautiful land in the whole country' - a little village in Kenya – 1950
Flora Nwapa
= 'Do you think that money grows on trees in my garden?' - South-east Nigeria –
around 1910 (1)
= The disobedient girl - South-east Nigeria – around 1910 (2)
Liam O'Flaherty
= The angel and the sailing ship - a valley in Ireland – 1846
Idrissa Ouédraogo
= 'Don't worry' - Burkina Faso – 1986 - film
= Sana, a witch? - a village in Burkina Faso – 1989 - film
= Saga is still alive! - a village in Burkina Faso – 1990 - film
= Rolling in money - a village in Burkina Faso – 1990 - film
Giorgi Ovashvili
= Temporary island - River Inguri, Georgia/Abkhazia – 2014 - film
Sergei Parajanov
= The icy cold water - a small Hutsul village in the Carpathians, Ukraine - around 1910 - film
Cesare Pavese
= The beast - a hamlet in Northern Italy – 1941
= A real friend - a village in Northern Italy – 1948
Munshi Premchand
= Finally a cow! - Uttar Pradesh, India – 1930s (1)
= The cow did bring along nothing but problems - Uttar Pradesh, India – 1930s (2)
Vsevolod Pudovkin
= Partisans - Mongolia – 1920 - film
Glauber Rocha
= Father Sebastião - Northeast Brazil – 1938 - film
Nicolas Roeg
= A lizard on my arm - a bush in Australia – 1971 - film
Bimal Roy
= The zamindar takes the land of a peasant - West Bengal, India – around 1950 - film
Stefan Ruzowitzky
= First farm-maid, then woman farmer - a small mountain village in Austria -
around 1910 - film
Shahrbanoo Sadat
= Wolves - a hamlet in Afghanistan – 2016 - film
Walter Salles
= 'Now it is my turn' - Bahia, Northeast Brazil – 1910 - film
George Sand
= Roast chestnuts - a village in Berry, in the centre of France – around 1790
= Little Fadette chuckles - a village in Berry, in the centre of France – around 1792
Ramon J. Sender
= The village priest no longer understands - a village in Aragon, Spain – 1937
Ousmane Sembène
= The courage of the Ceddo - a village in Senegal – around 1700 - film
= The nightmare of Efock - a village in Senegal – 1942 - film
= A griot never keeps his mouth shut - Santhiu-Niaye, West Senegal – 1965
= Protection - a small village in Burkina Faso – 2004 - film
Vamba Sherif
= 'He is not your enemy' - a village in Liberia – around 1860 (1)
= There is war in the air - a village in Liberia – around 1890 (2)
Mikhail Sholokhov
= Deserters - Romania – autumn 1917 (1)
= A shepherd joins the Reds - Steppe in the Don Valley, Southern Russia – spring 1918 (2)
= The civil war is still not over - a hamlet in the Don Valley, Southern Russia –
summer 1920 (3)
Ignazio Silone
= Priest or donkey? - Fontamara, a village in Abruzzo, Southern Italy – 1928 (1)
= Land reform in reverse - Fontamara, Abruzzo, Southern Italy – 1929 (2)
= Sciatàp - A village in Abruzzo, Southern Italy – 1935
Breno Silveira
= 'It was never my dream' - Goías, Brazil – 1974 - film
Abderrahmane Sissako
= Whiplashes - a small nomad camp in Mali – 2012 - film
John Steinbeck
= Dreaming of a small farm of your own - California, United States – 1930s
= Driven away by the bulldozers - Oklahoma, United States – around 1935 (1)
= Nightmare - California, United States – around 1935 (2)
George Stevens
= Little Joey - a remote hamlet in Wyoming, United States – around 1870 - film
Stijn Streuvels
= Weeding the flax field - a village in Flanders, Belgium – 1907
John Sturges
= Bandits and assassins - a village in the Aboriginal of Mexico – around 1890 - film
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
= Decline of the empire - a village on Java, Indonesia – early sixteenth century (1)
= Challenging the sovereign - Tuban, Java, Indonesia – early sixteenth century (2)
Hasan Ali Toptaș
= Soldiers at the border - Şanlıurfa Province, South-eastern Turkey – 1980
= The missing girl - a village in Anatolia, Turkey – 1995
Ben Traven
= Trapped again to work in the jungle camp - Chiapas, South Mexico – around 1910 (1)
= Aunty Modesta - Chiapas, South Mexico – around 1910 (2)
= The verdict of Modesta - Chiapas, South Mexico – around 1910 (3)
= Machine gun - Chiapas, South Mexico – around 1910 (4)
= Peaceful sunshine - Chiapas, South Mexico – around 1910 (5)
= La Rosa Blanca - a hacienda in Veracruz, Mexico – 1920
Giovanni Verga
= 'What a miserable damn life!' - a fishing village on the coast of Sicily, Italy – 1867
Luchini Visconti
= A brawl, and a new insight - a village on the coast of Sicily, Italy – 1948 - film
Wang Xuebo
= The old bull - a village in Ningxia province, China – 2016 - film
Gerard Walschap
= Houtekiet - a village in Flanders, Belgium – around 1910
Edith Wharton
= Silver lining - a small village in Massachusetts, United States – 1884
Patrick White
= Forest Fire - a hamlet in New South Wales, Australia – 1914 (1)
= Failure - a hamlet in New South Wales, Australia – about 1935 (2)
Karel van de Woestijne
= Peasant Nand on his deathbed - Flanders, Belgium – about 1900
Writer unknown
= The poor peasant and the magistrate - Egypt – around 2050 BCE
Leena Yadav
= 'Let me leave' - a village in Rajasthan, India – 2015 - film
Zhang Yimou
= Not one student less - a hamlet in Hebei Province, China – 1997 - film
