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Canto General and the love poems memorised across a continent.

Taught imagination as the sole creative power; 'assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled'.

Silent Spring launched the environmental movement and got DDT banned.

The Labyrinth of Solitude defined Mexican self-understanding.

Interior, philosophical fiction now a global cult.

A Theory of Justice: fairness derived from behind the veil of ignorance.

Pedagogy of the Oppressed rewrote literacy teaching for the global south.

The Fire Next Time; the most precise prose on American race ever written.

You Can Heal Your Life and Hay House globalised affirmation culture; its health claims are contested.

Made the impossible ordinary and gave Latin America its own way of telling time.

Unity minister whose prosperity books shaped late-century abundance teaching.

Letter from Birmingham Jail and a movement that rewrote American law.

Omeros transplanted Homer to the Caribbean.

Theorised 'nation language' and Caribbean creolisation.

Wrote Black American interior life without explaining it to anyone.

Made the short story carry the weight of novels.

A House for Mr Biswas and a contested postcolonial vision.

Anatomies of power across the Andes and the Caribbean.

The Handmaid's Tale became the global shorthand for reproductive coercion.

Open Veins of Latin America reframed a hemisphere's economic history.

First songwriter awarded the literature Nobel.

Capabilities approach to justice, and a defence of emotion in public reason.

Vedic scholar whose texts linked Ayurveda, yoga and jyotish for Western students.

Founded Agape International and carried New Thought to a global multiracial audience.

Indigenous rights advocate whose testimonio reached the world.