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Canto General and the love poems memorised across a continent.

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.

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

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

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.

Indigenous rights advocate whose testimonio reached the world.