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Kannikkoythu
Kannikkoythu (കന്നിക്കൊയ്ത്ത്), meaning Maiden Harvest, is a 1947 poetry anthology by the Malayalam poet Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon, his first, gathering fifteen realist poems about agricultural life.
Kanojo no Tomodachi
Kanojo no Tomodachi (彼女の友達, My Girlfriend's Friend) is a romance manga by Jura, serialized on Kodansha's YanMaga Web since May 2021; seven volumes, 1 million copies reported, and a 2026 Quad anime adaptation.
Kanokon (かのこん)
Kanokon (かのこん) is a Japanese light novel series by Katsumi Nishino and illustrator Koin, published by MF Bunko J from 2005; a fox-spirit school harem comedy adapted into a 2008 Xebec anime, a 9-volume manga, an OVA, and a PS2 game.
Kanooru Subbamma Heggadathi
Kanuru Heggaditi (ಕಾನೂರು ಹೆಗ್ಗಡತಿ) is a Kannada epic novel of Malnad life by Kuvempu, first published in the mid-1930s and translated into English in 1999.
Kanshi (poetry)
Kanshi (漢詩), or Japanese kanshi, is Japanese poetry written in classical Chinese, composed from the seventh century until the early twentieth century, distinct from waka and haiku.
Kanteletar
Kanteletar is a collection of Finnish lyric folk poetry compiled and edited by Elias Lönnrot, first published in 1840–1841 as a companion to the Kalevala, Finland's national epic.
Kanthapura
Kanthapura is a 1938 novel in English by the Indian writer Raja Rao, his first and best known, telling how Gandhi's non-cooperation movement transforms a remote South Indian village.
Kanunî Mersiyesi
Kanunî Mersiyesi is the elegy the Ottoman court poet Bâkî wrote on the death of Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent in 1566, counted among the best-known elegies of Turkish literature.
Kanupriya
Kanupriya (कनुप्रिया) is a 1959 Hindi long poem by Dharmvir Bharati that retells the love of Radha for Krishna from her own point of view.
Kapalkundala
Kapalkundala (কপালকুণ্ডলা) is an 1866 Bengali romantic novel by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, his second, about a girl raised by a Kapalik ascetic in a coastal forest.
Kara Kabita
Kara Kabita (କାରା କବିତା), meaning "Prison Poems," is a collection of thirteen Odia poems that the poet and freedom activist Gopabandhu Das wrote in Hazaribagh Jail between 1923 and 1924.
Karada Sagashi (カラダ探し)
Karada Sagashi (カラダ探し) is a Japanese horror franchise by Welzard: a novel series, a 17-volume Shonen Jump+ manga by Katsutoshi Murase, a web anime, and live-action films starring Kanna Hashimoto, about students finding a disembodied classmate while evading the Red Person.
Karai (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
Karai is a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles character, a Foot Clan leader created by Eastman, Laird, and Lawson, debuting unnamed in Mirage's TMNT #53 (1992) and named in #55; later versions tie her to the Shredder.
Karan Ghelo
Karan Ghelo is an 1866 Gujarati historical novel by Nandshankar Tuljashankar Mehta, generally regarded as the first original Gujarati novel, telling of the last Rajput king of Gujarat.
Karel ende Elegast
Karel ende Elegast ("Charles and Elegast") is a Middle Dutch chivalric epic of about 1,400 verses in which an angel sends Charlemagne out stealing at night.
Kari o Komal
Kari o Komal (কড়ি ও কোমল; Sharps and Flats) is an 1886 Bengali poetry collection by Rabindranath Tagore, marking his shift from romantic lyricism toward reflections on reality, death, and the human condition.
Karingana ua karingana
Karingana ua karingana is a 1974 poetry collection by José Craveirinha, published in Lourenço Marques and regarded as a fundamental work of African poetry in Portuguese.
Karla's Choice
Karla's Choice is a 2024 Cold War spy novel by Nick Harkaway, son of John le Carré, continuing George Smiley's story and Karla's backstory in 1963, between The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, published by Viking.
Karlsson-on-the-Roof
Karlsson-on-the-Roof (Karlsson på taket) is Astrid Lindgren's Swedish children's trilogy (1955–1968) about a chubby flying man living behind a Stockholm chimney. Famous in the former Soviet Union via Lungina's 1957 translation and the 1968 cartoon.
Karnabhara
Karnabhara (कर्णभारम्, "Karna's burden") is a Sanskrit one-act play attributed to the early dramatist Bhāsa, showing Karna giving away his divine armor and earrings to a disguised Indra before battle.
Karnak Café
Karnak Café (Arabic: الكرنك, al-Karnak) is a novella by Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, published in 1974, that exposes torture in the prisons of Gamal Abdel Nasser's Egypt.
Karnali Blues
Karnali Blues (कर्नाली ब्लुज) is a 2010 Nepali novel by Buddhisagar that follows a boy and his father through far-western Nepal during the Maoist insurgency.
Karpuramanjari
Karpuramanjari is a Prakrit-language drama (sattaka) written around 900 CE by the poet Rajashekhara, telling how King Candapala wins and marries Princess Karpuramanjari.
Kartavirya Arjuna (कार्तवीर्यार्जुन)
Kartavirya Arjuna (Sahasrabahu), thousand-armed Haihaya king of Mahishmati in Hindu epic and Purana, blessed by Dattatreya, captor of Ravana, slain by Parashurama; distinct from the Pandava Arjuna.
Karuna
Karuna (കരുണ) is a khandakavya, or short narrative epic, in Malayalam by the poet N. Kumaran Asan, published in 1923 and retelling a Buddhist story.
Karvalo
Karvalo (ಕರ್ವಾಲೊ) is a 1980 Kannada novel by K.P. Poornachandra Tejaswi about a search in the Western Ghats for a rare flying lizard thought to be extinct.
Kashmiri novel
A Kashmiri novel is a novel written in the Kashmiri language, or, in wider usage, a novel about Kashmir by Kashmiri authors in Urdu or English.
Kashmiri Shaiva poetry
Kashmiri Shaiva poetry is mystical vernacular verse tied to Trika Shaivism from the 14th century onward, best known through Lal Ded's vakhs and Nund Rishi's shruks.
Kashmiri Sufi poetry
Kashmiri Sufi poetry is mystical verse in the Kashmiri language, begun in the fifteenth century by the Rishi Sufis, most notably Nund Rishi, and still sung at devotional gatherings.
Kasi Khandamu
Kasi Khandamu (కాశీఖండము) is a Telugu court epic by the poet Srinatha, a rendering of the Sanskrit Kasi Khanda glorifying the holy city of Kashi, composed around 1440 CE.