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Katabasis (novel)
Katabasis is R.F. Kuang's sixth novel, a 2025 Harper Voyager dark academia fantasy in which Cambridge graduate students Alice Law and Peter Murdoch descend into the Eight Courts of Hell to retrieve their dead advisor's soul.
Katanagatari (刀語)
Katanagatari (刀語, Sword Tale) is Nisio Isin's 12-volume 2007 Kodansha Box light novel series, one volume monthly, following swordless swordsman Shichika and strategist Togame hunting twelve Deviant Blades in Edo-era Japan; adapted as a 2010 White Fox monthly anime and Vertical omnibus edition.
Katara Prize for Arabic Novel
The Katara Prize for Arabic Novel (جائزة كتارا للرواية العربية) is an annual literary prize for Arabic novels, launched by the Cultural Village Foundation in Doha, Qatar, in 2014.
Kate Daniels (book series)
Kate Daniels is an urban fantasy series by the husband-and-wife team Ilona Andrews, set in post-Shift Atlanta where magic and technology alternate in waves; ten main novels (Magic Bites 2007 to Magic Triumphs 2018) plus Iron Covenant, Aurelia Ryder, and Wilmington Years spin-offs.
Katha Gurucharit
Katha Guru Charit (কথা গুৰু চৰিত) is a large anonymous Assamese prose hagiography of Assam's Neo-Vaishnava saints, compiled around 1716, covering Sankaradeva, Madhavadeva, and their successors.
Kathonibari Ghat
Kathanibari Ghat (কাঠনিবাৰী ঘাট) is an Assamese book by Mahim Bora, first published in 1961, known for its title story of a night at a Brahmaputra river station.
Katniss Everdeen
Katniss Everdeen is the protagonist of Suzanne Collins's Hunger Games trilogy, a District 12 archer who volunteers for her sister Prim, wins the 74th Games with Peeta, becomes the Mockingjay, kills President Coin, and is played by Jennifer Lawrence on film.
Kaurava (कौरव)
Kaurava (कौरव), descendants of king Kuru, denotes chiefly Dhritarashtra's hundred sons led by Duryodhana, who fought the five Pandava cousins at Kurukshetra and were annihilated, ushering in kaliyuga.
Kausilumina
Kausilumina (කව්සිළුමිණ, also spelled Kavsilumina) is a thirteenth-century Sinhala mahakavya by King Parakramabahu II of the Dambadeniya period, versifying the Kusa Jataka in 770 verses across 15 cantos.
Kav Silumina
Kav Silumina, literally "the crest-gem of poetry", is a Sinhalese epic poem of thirteenth-century Ceylon, generally attributed to King Parakramabahu II and woven around the Kusa-jataka, the story of the Bodhisattva king Kusa.
Kaval Kottam
Kaval Kottam (காவல் கோட்டம்) is a 2008 Tamil historical novel by Su. Venkatesan covering 600 years of Madurai's history; it won the 2011 Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil.
Kavijivan
Kavijivan (કવિજીવન) is an 1887 Gujarati biography of the poet and reformer Narmad, written by his contemporary Navalram Pandya a year after Narmad's death in 1886.
Kavikankan Chandi
Kavikankan Chandi (কবিকঙ্কণ চণ্ডী), also known as Kabikankan Chandi or Abhayamangal, is a 16th-century Bengali epic poem on the goddess Chandi, composed by Mukundaram Chakrabarti in West Bengal.
Kavita ke Naye Pratiman
Kavita ke Naye Pratiman (कविता के नये प्रतिमान, "New Paradigms of Poetry") is a 1968 collection of critical essays in Hindi by critic Namvar Singh on judging Nayi Kavita.
Kavitavali
Kavitavali (कवितावली), also called Kabitt-Ramayan, is a collection of devotional quatrains on the life of Rama by the Hindi poet-saint Tulsidas, written in Braj Bhasha.
Kavya
Kavya (काव्य) is a Sanskrit term for poetry and creative literature characterized as classical, ornate, or courtly, subsuming prose romance, biography, and drama, with a documented history from the 7th century.
Kavyaprakasha
Kavyaprakasha (काव्यप्रकाश, literally "Light of Poetry") is an influential 11th-century Sanskrit treatise on poetics by the Kashmir scholar Mammaṭa, whose systematic account of dhvani and poetic theory became a standard teaching text.
Kayapó oral literature
Kayapó oral literature is the body of myths, tales, and oratory transmitted by speech among the Mebêngôkre (Kayapó) people of the Brazilian Amazon, a Jê-speaking people.
Kayar
Kayar (കയർ, "Coir") is a 1978 Malayalam epic novel by Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai, chronicling two and a half centuries of social change in Kuttanad, Kerala, across hundreds of characters; an English translation, Coir, appeared in 1997.
Kaze no Stigma (風のスティグマ)
Kaze no Stigma (風のスティグマ, Stigma of the Wind) is a 2007 GONZO TV anime, 24 episodes, adapted from Takahiro Yamato's unfinished Fujimi Fantasia Bunko light novels about exiled wind mage Kazuma Yagami and fire mage Ayano Kannagi.
Kazohinia
Kazohinia (Gulliver utazása Kazohiniában; Vojaĝo al Kazohinio) is a 1941 satirical dystopian novel by Hungarian engineer Sándor Szathmári, a Gulliver sequel contrasting the emotionless Hin society with the obsessive Behins.
Kebra Nagast
Kebra Nagast (Ge'ez, "Glory of the Kings"), Ethiopian national epic in Ge'ez prose, fourteenth-century redaction; tells of Makeda, Solomon, Menelik, and the Ark at Aksum; charter of the Solomonic dynasty.
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Keep the Aspidistra Flying, George Orwell's third novel (Gollancz, 20 April 1936), satirizes Gordon Comstock's war on the money-god and lower-middle-class aspidistra respectability; it sold about 2,000 copies and was disowned by Orwell as a 'silly potboiler'.
Keep the Red Flag Flying
Keep the Red Flag Flying (Hongqi Pu, 红旗谱) is a 1957 novel by the Chinese writer Liang Bin following three generations of two peasant families in Hebei as their feud with a landlord becomes revolutionary struggle.
Keigo Higashino (東野 圭吾)
Keigo Higashino (東野圭吾, 1958–2026), Japanese mystery writer and former Nippondenso engineer; 1985 Edogawa Rampo Prize debut, Naoki Prize for The Devotion of Suspect X; Detective Galileo series; over 100 million copies in print in Japan.
Keluarga Gerilya
Keluarga Gerilya (The Guerrilla Family) is a 1950 Indonesian novel by Pramoedya Ananta Toer, written while he was imprisoned by the Dutch, portraying the revolution's cost on one family.
Kendi Gök Kubbemiz
Kendi Gök Kubbemiz ("Our Own Sky Dome") is a 1961 poetry collection by Turkish poet Yahya Kemal Beyatlı, his first book of verse, gathering his modern-style poems.
Kerege Hara
Kerege Hara (ಕೆರೆಗೆ ಹಾರ) is a Kannada folk ballad, popular in north Karnataka, telling how a young wife is drowned in a village tank as a human sacrifice.
Kerem Gibi
Kerem Gibi is a free-verse poem by Nâzım Hikmet, published unsigned under the pseudonym "Adam" in Resimli Ay in June 1930, transforming the folk hero Kerem into an image of self-sacrifice.
Kerem ile Aslı
Kerem ile Aslı is a Turkish folk tale telling of the doomed love between Kerem, a Muslim prince, and Aslı, a Christian priest's daughter, united only in death.