* Literature – prose, written or oral, including fiction and non-fiction, drama and poetry.

In his The Pleasures of Japanese Literature, Keene claims Murasaki wrote the " supreme work of Japanese fiction " by drawing on traditions of court diaries, and earlier monogatari — written in a mixture of Chinese script and Japanese script — such as The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter or The Tales of Ise.

The popular image of Whitney inventing the cotton gin is attributed to an article on the subject written in the early 1870s and later reprinted in 1910 in The Library of Southern Literature.

She has written more than fifty novels including the much loved " Flambards " series of pony stories, for which she won both the 1969 Carnegie Medal in Literature from the Library Association and the 1970 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, judged by a panel of British children's writers.

Literature written for children and young people also included fantastic elements ; Tormod Haugen is the most notable contributor to this genre.

Literature should not be written in the styles of long ago, but rather in the modern style of the present era.

Literature during this time was written during the largely peaceful Tokugawa Period ( commonly referred to as the Edo Period ).

The Classical era is that most commonly associated with Greek Literature, beginning in 800 BCE and maintaining its influence through to the beginnings of Byzantine period, whereafter the influence of Christianity began to spawn a new development of the Greek written word.

Henry Miller assumed a unique place in American Literature in the 1930s when his semi-autobiographical novels, written and published in Paris, were banned from the US.

For this poetic first-person narrative written from Yi's perspective, he received the Dongin Literature Award, the most prestigious literary prize in the nation.

* Monte-Carlo Go, written by B. Bouzy and B. Helmstetter from Scientific Literature Digital Library

Literature in Macau was written about love affairs and marriage between the Tanka women and Portuguese men, like " A-Chan, A Tancareira ", by Henrique de Senna Fernandes.

The Annual Register ( originally subtitled " A View of the History, Politicks and Literature of the Year ...") is a long-established reference work, written and published each year, which records and analyses the year ’ s major events, developments and trends throughout the world.

His best known work, of widest application, is the Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century A. D., with an Account of the Principal Sects and Heresies, written in collaboration with William Smith.

His encyclopedic work The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature ( 1984 ), written jointly with his wife, has become a standard reference source.

World Literature Today identified the leading 20th Century mixed-genre authors as German playwright Heiner Müller, Polish theater director, painter, and essayist Tadeusz Kantor, and Puerto Rican poet and novelist Giannina Braschi who have written mixed-genre classics that defy the boundaries of theater, poetry, fiction, philosophy, and essay.

* mannurat. com blog of an Ilokano fictionist and poet written in Iloko and featuring original and Iloko fiction and poetry, literary analysis and criticism focused on Ilokano Literature, and literary news about Iloko writing and writers and organization like the GUMIL ( Gunglo dagiti Mannurat nga Ilokano ).

Literature in the written form started in the early 20th century.

Eight international Nobel Prize winners have written and sent a document to the U. S. Attorney General calling for freedom for the Cuban Five, signed by Zhores Alferov ( Nobel Prize for Physics, 2000 ), Desmond Tutu ( Nobel Peace Prize, 1984 ), Nadine Gordimer ( Nobel Prize in Literature, 1991 ), Rigoberta Menchú ( Nobel Peace Prize, 1992 ), Adolfo Pérez Esquivel ( Nobel Peace Prize, 1980 ), Wole Soyinka ( Nobel Prize in Literature, 1986 ), José Saramago ( Nobel Prize in Literature, 1996 ), Günter Grass ( Nobel Prize in Literature, 1999 ).

Literature in this period was written in Latin, Czech and slovakized Czech.

Abithana Chitamani is an encyclopedia on Tamil Literature written by A. Singaravelu Mudaliar ( 1855-1931 ).

He was influenced by the French philosopher Henri-Louis Bergson ( 1859 – 1941 ), who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1927.

Depending on the area of interest of the pupils, different subkinds exist whose programmes are mostly decided at national level, but all offer at least basic teachings in Italian language and Literature, History, Geography, Philosophy, Mathematics, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, a foreign language ( usually English, but also French, German or Spanish ), History of Arts and Physical Education:

* January 4 – Henri Bergson, French philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature ( b. 1859 )

* October 18 – Henri Bergson, French philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature ( d. 1941 )

* J. M. G. Le Clézio – French author and professor, was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature

At Uppsala, he was appointed a Reader in French, meaning that he was responsible for teaching both French language and literature, giving courses on such topics as " The Conception of Love in French Literature from the Marquis de Sade to Jean Genet.

* Canada: the Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Literature and Illustration ( English and French ).

See also: List of Quebec writers, Literature of Quebec, List of French Canadian writers from outside Quebec

* Robert Magliola, Phenomenology and Literature ( Purdue University Press, 1977 ; 1978 ) systematically describes, in Part One, the influence of Husserl, Heidegger, and the French Existentialists on the Geneva School and other forms of what becomes known as " phenomenological literary criticism "; and in Part Two describes phenomenological literary theory in Roman Ingarden and Mikel Dufrenne.

* Philadelphia Inquirer, quoted on back of Dalkey Archive Press French Literature Series Translation by Dominic Di Bernardi of London Bridge

The folklorist Alexander Hagerty Krappe ( 1894 – 1947 ) discusses the Balor legend in his book Balor With the Evil Eye: Studies in Celtic and French Literature ( 1927 ).

* The Oxford Companion to French Literature, Sir Paul Harvey and J. E. Heseltine, eds., ( Oxford, 1959 ) ISBN 0-19-866104-5

Jean-Luc Godard also looked back at Bresson with high admiration, comparing his position in French Cinema with that of Dostoevsky in Russian Literature and Mozart in German Music (“ Robert Bresson is French cinema, as Dostoevsky is the Russian novel and Mozart is the German music.

* Geoffrey Bennington, Professor of French and Professor of Comparative Literature at Emory University

A Course in the History of the Literature of Piano Music, in Nedelia ; in French: Cours de literature musicale des oeuvres pour le piano au Conservatoire de Saint Petersburg, in L ' Art, revue bimensuelle illustree.

* The Reactionary Revolution, The Catholic Revival in French Literature, 1870 / 1914, Richard Griffiths, Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., NY, 1965.

He was awarded a Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire in 1992, the Commandeur dans l ' Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government, an honorary Doctorate of Literature on 4 July 1985 by St. Andrews University in Scotland and an honorary Doctorate of Letters in 1993 by the University of Sussex in England.

He was member of the Royal Belgian Academy of French Language and Literature.

* Arthur Tilley, The Literature of the French Renaissance ( 2 vols., 1904 ).

< An authorized translation of the second French edition, 1968, with introduction, expanded notes, enlarged updated bibliography, and index by the translator ; has been cited in more than 150 scientific books / papers since its publication ; cited in extenso in " Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism ", 1993 .>

As of 2006, French writers have been awarded more Nobel Prizes in Literature than novelists, poets and essayists of any other country.