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Kakawin Arjunawijaya
Kakawin Arjunawijaya is an Old Javanese court poem composed by the Majapahit poet Mpu Tantular in the late 14th century, retelling the war between King Arjuna Sahasrabahu and the rakshasa king Rawana.
Kakawin Bharatayuddha
Kakawin Bharatayuddha, meaning "The War of the Bharatas," is an Old Javanese court epic retelling the Mahabharata war, begun in 1157 at the court of King Jayabhaya of Kediri.
Kakawin Hariwangsa
Kakawin Hariwangsa is an Old Javanese poem by Mpu Panuluh, written at the court of King Jayabhaya of Kediri around 1135 to 1157, telling of Krishna's abduction of Rukmini.
Kakawin Parthayajna
Kakawin Parthayadnya, also known as Parthayana, is an Old Javanese court poem telling of Arjuna's journey to Mount Indrakīla, traditionally attributed to Mpu Tantular of fourteenth-century Majapahit.
Kaki
Kaki (กากี) is a Thai verse narrative about Queen Kaki, whose beauty draws three men into rivalry and ends with her set adrift at sea.
Kako the Robber
Kako the Robber (კაკო ყაჩაღი) is an 1860 narrative poem by the Georgian writer Ilia Chavchavadze, protesting serfdom through the story of a runaway serf.
Kala Ghoda Poems
Kala Ghoda Poems is a 2004 collection of 28 English poems by Indian poet Arun Kolatkar, observing Mumbai's Kala Ghoda district from a restaurant table; it appeared weeks before his death.
Kalapurnodayamu
Kalapurnodayamu (కళాపూర్ణోదయము) is a 16th-century Telugu narrative poem in eight cantos by Pingali Surana, a masterpiece of layered storytelling that some scholars call the first Indian novel.
Kalbela
Kalbela (কালবেলা) is a Bengali novel by Samaresh Majumdar, set in the Naxalite era of West Bengal and winner of the 1984 Sahitya Akademi Award.
Kaldırımlar
Kaldırımlar (Turkish for "Sidewalks") is a 1927 poem by the Turkish poet Necip Fazıl Kısakürek and the title of his second poetry book, published in Istanbul in 1928.
Kalevala
Kalevala: Finnish national epic compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folk poetry; Old Kalevala 1835, New Kalevala 1849 in fifty runos, in Kalevala meter, translated into over forty-seven languages.
Kalevipoeg
Kalevipoeg is the Estonian national epic, compiled by Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald from folk legends and published in 1862; it became a symbol of the national awakening.
Kali Aandhi
Kali Aandhi (काली आँधी, "Black Storm") is a 1974 Hindi political novel by Kamleshwar about corruption in post-independence Indian politics and the basis of Gulzar's 1975 film Aandhi.
Kali Shalwar
Kali Shalwar (کالی شلوار, "The Black Shalwar") is an Urdu short story by Saadat Hasan Manto, written in the early 1940s and known for the obscenity controversy it provoked.
Kalingattupparani
Kalingattupparani (கலிங்கத்துப்பரணி) is a medieval Tamil war poem composed by the court poet Jayamkondar, celebrating Emperor Kulottunga Chola I's invasion of Kalinga and the earliest surviving parani.
Kalittokai
Kalittokai (கலித்தொகை) is a classical Tamil poetic anthology of 150 love poems in the kali meter, the sixth of the Eight Anthologies (Ettuthokai) of Sangam literature.
Kaliyugaya
Kaliyugaya (කලියුගය) is a 1957 Sinhala-language novel by Martin Wickramasinghe, second in his trilogy, following Nanda and Piyal as village life gives way to modernity in Sri Lanka.
Kalmasoba
Kalmasoba (კალმასობა), also titled Khumarsstsavla, is an encyclopedic work in dialogue form by the Georgian prince Ioane Bagrationi, written in exile from 1813 to 1828 and regarded as his most important work.
Kalvanin Kadhali
Kalvanin Kadhali (கள்வனின் காதலி, "The Dacoit's Lover") is a Tamil novel by Kalki Krishnamurthy, serialized in Ananda Vikatan in 1937 and credited with launching Tamil commercial fiction.
Kalyanasaugandhikam
Kalyanasaugandhikam (കല്യാണസൗഗന്ധികം) is a Malayalam literary and performance subject based on the Mahabharata episode in which Bhima seeks the Saugandhika flower for Draupadi and meets Hanuman, treated in Kerala art forms including Kathakali and thullal.
Kamalakanter Daptar
Kamalakanter Daptar (কমলাকান্তের দপ্তর) is an 1875 collection of satirical Bengali essays by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, written in the voice of an opium-eating old Brahmin to criticize colonial rule and social superstition.
Kamalambal Charitram
Kamalambal Charitram (கமலாம்பாள் சரித்திரம்) is an 1893 Tamil social novel by B. R. Rajam Iyer, the second Tamil novel and the first written in a realist style.
Kamapuaʻa
Kamapuaʻa, meaning hog-child, is a Hawaiian demigod or kupua, half human and half hog, known for his battle and courtship of the volcano goddess Pele and a large cycle of Hawaiian-language narratives.
Kamashastra
Kamashastra (कामशास्त्र), the Sanskrit "science of kama," is the genre of Hindu treatises on erotic love and pleasure, one of the four purusharthas; its central text is Vatsyayana's Kamasutra, followed by works like the Ratirahasya and Anangaranga.
Kamayani
Kamayani (कामायनी) is a 1936 Hindi epic poem by Jaishankar Prasad, the leading epic of the Chhayavad movement, retelling the flood myth of Manu and Shraddha.
Kamba Ramayanam
Kamba Ramayanam (கம்பராமாயணம்), properly titled Irāmāvatāram, is a Tamil epic by the poet Kampan, traditionally dated to the 12th century, retelling the Rama story in Tamil.
Kamigami no Asobi (神々の悪戯)
Kamigami no Asobi (神々の悪戯, Ludere deorum) is a 2013 PSP otome game by Broccoli and Nippon Ichi Software with art by Kazuki Yone; heroine Yui Kusanagi teaches gods about love at Zeus's school. Spawned a 2014 Brain's Base anime, the InFinite sequel, and a Switch Unite Edition.
Kamsuan Samut
Kamsuan Samut (กำสรวลสมุทร), also known as Kamsuan Si Prat and rendered Ocean Lament, is an early Ayutthaya Thai poem considered a precursor of the nirat genre.
Kamui: He's Behind You
Kamui: He's Behind You (うしろの正面カムイさん) is a Japanese comedy horror manga by Eroki and Shinko Konoshiro, serialized since 2020, about a ghost-seeing schoolgirl assisting a psychic.
Kâmûsü'l-A'lâm
Kâmûsü'l-A'lâm (قاموس الاعلام) is a six-volume Ottoman Turkish dictionary of proper names in history and geography, compiled by Şemseddin Sâmi in Istanbul from 1889 and completed in 1899.