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Kana Preface
The Kana Preface (仮名序, Kanajo) is the preface in kana at the head of the Kokin Wakashū, the 905 imperial waka anthology, attributed to Ki no Tsurayuki.
Kana prose
Kana prose (仮名文学, kana bungaku) is Japanese literature written in the kana syllabaries rather than classical Chinese, emerging in the Heian period and including waka anthologies, tales, and women's diaries.
Kanazōshi
Kanazōshi (仮名草子), meaning "books in kana," is the collective name for popular Japanese novels, tales, and essays written in the kana syllabary from about 1600 to 1682.
Kanchana Sita
Kanchana Sita is a Malayalam play by C. N. Sreekantan Nair and a 1978 film directed by G. Aravindan, retelling the Ramayana from Sita's banishment onward.
Kanda Puranam
Kanda Puranam (கந்த புராணம்) is a Tamil devotional epic retelling the life of the god Murugan, composed around the 14th century by the Kanchipuram priest Kachiyappa Sivachariyar.
Kanda Shasti Kavasam
Kanda Shasti Kavasam (கந்த சஷ்டி கவசம்) is a 19th-century Tamil devotional hymn of protection to the god Murugan, composed by Devaraya Swamigal and most widely sung during the festival Skanda Sashti.
Kandar Anubhuti
Kandar Anubhuti (கந்தர் அனுபூதி, "The Kanda Experience") is a Tamil devotional poem of 51 verses praising the god Murugan, composed in the 15th century by Arunagirinathar.
Kando Nadi Kando
Kando Nadi Kando (কাঁদো নদী কাঁদো, "Cry, River, Cry") is a 1968 Bengali novel by Syed Waliullah, centered on a dying river and a town that depends on it.
Kane and Abel (novel)
Kane and Abel, Jeffrey Archer's 1979 historical novel, follows William Lowell Kane and Abel Rosnovski, born the same day, whose rivalry over a bank and hotel empire spans sixty years.
Kang Dynasty
Kang Dynasty: a 2001-2002 sixteen-part Avengers comic storyline by Kurt Busiek in which Kang the Conqueror conquers Earth, and the title of a planned MCU Avengers film retooled into Avengers: Doomsday after Jonathan Majors' conviction.
Kanga (Winnie-the-Pooh)
Kanga is a fictional character in A. A. Milne's 1926 book Winnie-the-Pooh, an affectionate, overprotective mother to Roo who is the only female character in the books.
Kanika
Kanika (কণিকা) is a collection of short, satirical poems and epigrams by Rabindranath Tagore, first published in Calcutta in 1899; the title means a tiny particle or drop.
Kannada autobiography
A Kannada autobiography (ಆತ್ಮಕಥೆ, atmakathe) is a first-person narrative of the author's own life in the Kannada language, including landmark Dalit works like Siddalingaiah's Ooru Keri (1981).
Kannada Bhagavata
The Kannada Bhagavata (ಕನ್ನಡ ಭಾಗವತ) is a sixteenth-century Kannada verse rendering of the complete Sanskrit Bhagavata Purana, written by Cāṭuvithalanātha in Bhamini shatpadi meter during the Vijayanagara period around 1530 to 1542.
Kannada detective fiction
Kannada detective fiction is the tradition of detective and mystery writing in Kannada, the language of Karnataka, beginning with Choragrahana Tantra in 1895 and continuing today.
Kannada epic poetry
Kannada epic poetry is the tradition of long narrative poems in Kannada, spanning Jain and Lingayat court epics from the ninth century onward and oral folk epics.
Kannada essay
A Kannada essay, called prabandha (ಪ್ರಬಂಧ) or nibandha, is a prose composition in Kannada treating one subject in detail; the modern form was shaped by the English essay.
Kannada folk epic
Kannada folk epics (ಜನಪದ ಮಹಾಕಾವ್ಯಗಳು) are long oral narrative poems of Karnataka sung by community singers, with the Manteswamy Kavya and Madeshvara Kavya the principal works.
Kannada historical novel
The Kannada historical novel (ಐತಿಹಾಸಿಕ ಕಾದಂಬರಿ) is Kannada-language prose fiction taking plot or setting from recorded history, chiefly Karnataka's; it grew from Marathi and Bengali translations, beginning with Suryakanta in 1895.
Kannada Jainapurana
Kannada Jainapurana (ಕನ್ನಡ ಜೈನ ಪುರಾಣ) is a genre of Jain narrative religious poems in Kannada, retelling Tirthankara lives and Jaina recastings of the Hindu epics.
Kannada literature
Kannada literature (ಕನ್ನಡ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ) is the body of written and oral work in Kannada, a Dravidian language of southwestern India, attested for over eleven centuries.
Kannada literature of the Mysore court
Kannada literature of the Mysore court is the Kannada-language writing sponsored by the Wodeyar kings of Mysore, southern India, from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries.
Kannada Navya novel
The Kannada Navya novel is the modernist Kannada novel of the Navya movement, roughly 1950 to 1980; its landmark text is U. R. Ananthamurthy's Samskara (1965).
Kannada novel
The Kannada novel, called kadambari in Kannada, is the tradition of prose fiction written in Kannada, which took shape in the late 19th century through translation.
Kannada Ramayana
The Kannada Ramayana is the body of Rama-story retellings in Kannada, including Nagachandra's Jain Pampa Ramayana of 1149 and Narahari's Torave Ramayana of about 1500.
Kannada short story
The Kannada short story (ಸಣ್ಣ ಕಥೆ, sanna kathe) is a prose fiction genre in Kannada, the language of Karnataka, with Panje Mangesharaya's 1900 story considered the first modern example.
Kannadasan (கண்ணதாசன்)
Kannadasan (கண்ணதாசன்), born Muthiah, 1927–1981, was the Kaviarasu of Tamil cinema: over 5,000 film lyrics, 4,000 poems, Arthamulla Indhu Matham, Yesu Kaaviyam, Sahitya Akademi and National Film Award winner.
Kannagi (கண்ணகி)
Kannagi (கண்ணகி), heroine of the Tamil epic Cilappatikaram by Ilango Adigal: after her husband Kovalan is wrongly executed by the Pandyan king, she proves his innocence with her ruby-filled anklet and burns Madurai, then is deified as the goddess Pattini, worshipped in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Sri Lanka.
Kannan Pattu
Kannan Pattu (கண்ணன் பாட்டு, "Songs of Krishna") is a cycle of 23 Tamil devotional lyrics by Subramania Bharati, completed in 1912 and first published in 1917.
Kanneerum Kinavum
Kanneerum Kinavum (കണ്ണീരും കിനാവും, "Tears and Dreams") is the 1970 autobiography of Malayalam social reformer V. T. Bhattathiripad, recounting his childhood in Kerala's Namboothiri community; it won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 1971.