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Aké: The Years of Childhood
Aké: The Years of Childhood is a 1981 autobiographical memoir by the Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka, recounting his boyhood before and during World War II in Aké, a Yoruba town in western Nigeria.
Akela (अकेला) (The Jungle Book)
Akela (Akelā, अकेला) is a fictional wolf, the aging leader of the Seeonee pack in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (1894), whose fading authority drives "Mowgli's Brothers".
Akif Bey
Akif Bey is an 1874 five-act prose play by the Ottoman writer Namık Kemal, the first work of Turkish literature to take the sea as its subject.
Akira (アキラ) (manga)
Akira (アキラ) is Katsuhiro Otomo's science fiction manga serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Young Magazine from December 1982 to June 1990, collected in six volumes, set in postwar Neo-Tokyo, winner of the 1984 Kodansha Manga Award, and adapted into the 1988 anime film.
Akira Failing in Love
Akira Failing in Love (百瀬アキラの初恋破綻中。) is a Shinta Harekawa rom-com manga running in Weekly Shonen Sunday since August 2024, about scripted, failing courtship; licensed in English by VIZ from March 2026.
Akjang
Akjang (악장) is the sung lyric of Korean court music, praising the Joseon dynasty from the fifteenth century; Yongbieocheonga of 1445 was the first work written in Hangul.
Akka Mahadevi's Vachanas
Akka Mahadevi's Vachanas (ಅಕ್ಕಮಹಾದೇವಿಯ ವಚನಗಳು) are about 400 short free-verse devotional poems in Kannada, composed in the 12th century by the Virashaiva mystic Akka Mahadevi and addressed to Shiva as Chennamallikarjuna.
AKO Literature Prize
The AKO Literature Prize (AKO Literatuurprijs) was a Dutch literary award for the best Dutch-language book of the year, first awarded in 1987 and modeled on the Booker Prize.
Aku
Aku ("Me" or "I") is a 1943 poem by the Indonesian poet Chairil Anwar, a leading figure of the '45 Generation, regarded as a seminal work of modern Indonesian literature.
Aku Ingin
Aku Ingin is a short love poem by the Indonesian poet Sapardi Djoko Damono, written in 1989 and famous for its opening line, "I want to love you simply."
Akuyaku Reijō no Naka no Hito
Akuyaku Reijō no Naka no Hito (The One Within the Villainess, Within the Villainess) is a Japanese villainess isekai web novel by Makiburo, later a two-volume light novel, a completed manga by Nazuna Shiraume, and a TV anime premiering 2027.
Al cor gentil rempaira sempre amore
"Al cor gentil rempaira sempre amore" is a doctrinal love canzone by the Bolognese poet Guido Guinizelli, written in the 13th century and treated as the manifesto of the dolce stil novo.
Al Niágara
Al Niágara (also cited as El Niágara or Niágara) is an ode to Niagara Falls written in 1824 by the Cuban-Mexican poet José María Heredia during his United States exile.
Al-Amali
Al-Amali (الأمالي, "The Dictations") is a tenth-century Arabic anthology of language and poetry dictated in Cordoba by Abu Ali al-Qali, one of the four pillars of adab named by Ibn Khaldun.
Al-Babtain Prize for Poetry
The Al-Babtain Prize for Poetry (جائزة البابطين) is a Kuwait-based annual award honoring poets and poetry critics from across the Arab world, founded in 1989.
Al-Burda (قصيدة البردة)
Al-Burda (قصيدة البردة), formally al-Kawākib al-Durriyya, is al-Busiri's 7th-century AH Arabic ode praising the Prophet Muhammad, in ten chapters and about 160 verses, distinct from Ka'b ibn Zuhayr's original Burda and widely recited, commented, and translated.
Al-Inkishafi
Al-Inkishafi is a classical Swahili poem composed around 1820 by Sayyid Abdallah bin Ali bin Nasir, reflecting on the vanity of worldly life amid the decline of the Pate sultanate.
Al-Khamriyya (Ibn al-Farid)
Al-Khamriyya (الخمرية), or "Wine Ode", is a celebrated Arabic Sufi poem by the Egyptian poet ʿUmar Ibn al-Fāriḍ (1181–1235), in which wine imagery symbolizes divine love and mystical experience.
Al-Ma'arri
Al-Ma'arri (أبو العلاء المعري, 973–1057), Arab Abbasid poet and philosopher of Ma'arrat al-Numan, blind from childhood, author of Saqt al-Zand, the Luzumiyat, and Risalat al-Ghufran, famous for forty years of seclusion, asceticism, and the centuries-long controversy over his creed.
Al-Saq 'ala al-Saq
Al-Saq 'ala al-Saq (الساق على الساق) is a book by Syro-Lebanese writer Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, first published in Paris in 1855 and regarded as his most important work.
Alai Osai
Alai Osai (அலை ஓசை) is a Tamil social novel by Kalki that follows families through India's independence struggle, partition, and Gandhi's assassination, winning the 1956 Sahitya Akademi Award.
Alaler Gharer Dulal
Alaler Gharer Dulal (আলালের ঘরের দুলাল, "The Spoiled Child") is an 1858 Bengali novel by Peary Chand Mitra, writing as Tekchand Thakur, generally counted as the first Bengali novel.
Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude
Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude is a narrative poem of about 720 lines in blank verse by Percy Bysshe Shelley, published in March 1816.
Albertus
Albertus, ou l'Âme et le Péché, is an 1832 narrative poem by Théophile Gautier in which an old witch regains youth and seduces the young painter Albertus.
Albus Dumbledore
Albus Dumbledore, full name Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, is a fictional wizard in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, Headmaster of Hogwarts and Harry Potter's mentor.
Alchemised
Alchemised is SenLinYu's 1,040-page dark fantasy debut (Del Rey, Sept 23 2025), adapted from their viral Harry Potter Dramione fanfic Manacled; Helena Marino and Kaine Ferron replaced Draco and Hermione; 300,000 first-week copies, fastest-selling adult debut in two decades.
Alcools
Alcools is a 1913 collection of 48 poems by the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire, published by the Nouvelle Revue française and regarded as a landmark of modern French poetry.
Alcyone
Alcyone, known in Italian as Alcione, is a collection of 88 lyric poems by Gabriele D'Annunzio, published in 1903 as the third book of his Laudi cycle.
Alderaan
Alderaan is a fictional Star Wars planet, a peaceful Core World ruled by House Organa and Leia Organa's homeworld, destroyed by Grand Moff Tarkin's Death Star in A New Hope, leaving an asteroid field.
Alderamin on the Sky (ねじ巻き精霊戦記 天鏡のアルデラミン)
Alderamin on the Sky (ねじ巻き精霊戦記 天鏡のアルデラミン), also Nejimaki Seirei Senki: Tenkyou no Alderamin, is a Japanese fantasy military light novel series by Bokuto Uno, 14 Dengeki Bunko volumes 2012–2018, adapted into a 2016 Madhouse TV anime; Katvarna Empire vs Kioka Republic.