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The history of literature begins with the history of writing, in the Bronze Age of Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt, although the oldest literary texts date to a full millennium after the invention of writing, to the late 3rd millennium BC. The earliest literary authors known by name are Ptahhotep and Enheduanna, dating to ca. the 24th and 23rd centuries BC, respectively. More about Literature...
... that Ionesco's La cantatrice chauve has become one of the most performed plays in France?
... that Austrian dramatist and novelist Peter Handke was nominated for the Heinrich Heine Prize 2006 but that his alleged support for Slobodan Milošević has led to a heated controversy?
... that deliberate misspellings are quite common in limericks?
... that between 1942 and 1944 Anne Frank kept a diary?
... that Wildwechsel, Stallerhof and Oberösterreich are stage plays by Franz Xaver Kroetz?
... that Shmelka Glickstein, Augie March, Duddy Kravitz and Alexander Portnoy are four fictional heroes growing up Jewish in North America?
... that Michael Frayn has written a Fleet Street novel, Towards the End of the Morning?
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- 1687 - Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
- 1889 - Jean Cocteau, French writer born
- 1904 - Abai Kunanbaiuli, Kazakh poet died
- 1908 - Jonas Lie, Norwegian author died
- 3 June, 2009 - American author Marilynne Robinson wins the Orange Prize for Fiction for her novel, Home. BBC
- 26 May, 2009 - Alice Munro won the £60,000 Man Booker International Prize. Guardian
- 19 April, 2009 - British novelist J. G. Ballard dies aged 78.
- 17 February, 2009 - British writer Edward Upward dies aged 105. Wikinews
- 27 January, 2009 - Pulitzer prize-winning American novelist John Updike dies from lung cancer aged 76. Guardian
Subcategories of Literature:
Anthropomorphism – Books – Children's books – Essays – Essayists – Fiction – Genres – Gothic writing – LGBT literature – Literary awards – Literary characters – Literary concepts – Literary genres – Literary magazines – Literary movements – Literature by nationality – Literature in English – Medieval literature – Minimalism – Narratology – Novels – Pataphysics – Plays – Poetry – Short stories – Small press publishers – Literature stubs – Theatre – Traditional stories – Writers – Young adult literature – Zines
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