overview
the WEST
Ontario, Canada.Europe, United States, Canada, Australia
AUSTRALIA
Peter Carey
= Almost drowned - a village in Victoria, Australia – 1866 (1)
= Birth party - New South Wales, Australia – 1879 (2)
David Malouf
= Black or white? - Queensland, North Australia – about 1860
Nicolas Roeg
= A lizard on my arm - a bush in Australia – 1971 - film
Patrick White
= Forest Fire - a hamlet in New South Wales, Australia – 1914 (1)
= Failure - a hamlet in New South Wales, Australia – about 1935 (2)
AUSTRIA
Stefan Ruzowitzky
= First farm-maid, then woman farmer - a small mountain village in Austria -
around 1910 - film
BELGIUM
Stijn Streuvels
= Weeding the flax field - a village in Flanders, Belgium – 1907
Gerard Walschap
= Houtekiet - a village in Flanders, Belgium – around 1910
Karel van de Woestijne
= Peasant Nand on his deathbed - Flanders, Belgium – about 1900
FRANCE
John Berger
= 'First they take your land and then your children' - French Alps – 1960
= From another world - French Alps – 1975
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
GEORGIA/ABKHAZIA
Giorgi Ovashvili
= Temporary island - River Inguri, Georgia/Abkhazia – 2014 - film
GERMANY
Hans von Grimmelshausen
=Simplicissimus - a forest in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany – about 1630
HUNGARY
Gyula Illyés
= As free as a bird - an estate in Hungary – 1910 (1)
= Serf or free servant? - an estate in Hungary – 1912 (2)
ICELAND
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)
IRELAND
Liam O'Flaherty
= The angel and the sailing ship - a valley in Ireland – 1846
ITALY
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
Gavino Ledda
= Sheep thieves - Sardinia, Italy – 1945 (1)
= Locusts - Sardinia, Italy – 1945 (2)
= 'Half is half' - Sardinia, Italy – 1956 (3)
Cesare Pavese
= The beast - a hamlet in Northern Italy – 1941
= A real friend - a village in Northern Italy – 1948
Ignazio Silone
= Priest or donkey? - Fontamara, a village in Abruzzo, Southern Italy – 1928 (1)
= Land reform in reverse - Fontamara, a village in Abruzzo, Southern Italy – 1929 (2)
= Sciatàp - A village in Abruzzo, Southern Italy – 1935
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
NETHERLANDS
Bernlef
= Cheese sandwich - The Netherlands – 1945
Herman Heijermans
= Fear - a fishing village, the Netherlands – 1900
= Two hundred guilders in advance - a village in Friesland, the Netherlands – 1902
NORWAY
Knut Hamsun
= Piano tuner - Norway – 1906
= Pioneer - a remote village in Norway – 1917
ROMANIA
Mikhail Sholokhov
= Deserters - Romania – autumn 1917 (1)
RUSSIA
Mikhail Sholokhov
= 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)
SPAIN
Icíar Bollaín
= The tree of grandpa - Castellón, Spain – 2006 - film
Ramon J. Sender
= The village priest no longer understands - a village in Aragon, Spain – 1937
SWEDEN
Amanda Kernell
= 'Our reindeer are your reindeer' - mountain region in the north of Sweden – 1930s - film
UKRAINE
Sergei Parajanov
= The icy cold water - a small Hutsul village in the Carpathians, Ukraine - around 1910 - film
UNITED KINGDOM
Bruce Chatwin
= Gas masks - a small village in Wales, United Kingdom – 1919
Michael Curtiz and William Keighley
= 'The forest is large enough for a secret army' - Nottinghamshire, England – 1195 - film
UNITED STATES
Michael Blake
= Bison hunting - Prairie in Colorado, United States – 1863 (1)
= The holy forest desecrated - Prairie in Colorado, United States – 1863 (2)
Ang Lee
= Impossible plans - a nature reserve in Wyoming, US – 1973 - 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
Edith Wharton
= Silver lining - a small village in Massachusetts, United States – 1884
