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Kerikil Tajam dan Yang Terampas dan Yang Putus
Kerikil Tajam dan Yang Terampas dan Yang Putus is a 1949 poetry collection by Indonesian poet Chairil Anwar, published by Pustaka Rakyat in Jakarta in two parts, including "Aku" and "Krawang-Bekasi".
Kesastraan Melayu Tionghoa
Kesastraan Melayu Tionghoa, meaning Chinese-Malay literature, is the body of Malay writing by Peranakan Chinese of the Dutch East Indies, flourishing from the 1870s to the 1960s.
Keter Malchut
Keter Malchut, also rendered Keter Malkhut or The Kingly Crown, is a Hebrew liturgical-philosophical poem of about 40 stanzas by Solomon ibn Gabirol, recited on Yom Kippur.
Keyurabahucharitramu
Keyurabahucharitramu (కేయూరబాహుచరిత్రము) is a Telugu kathā-kāvya written by poet Manchana in the 12th or 13th century, one of the earliest Telugu works in the kathā narrative tradition.
Khaka
Khaka (خاکہ) in Urdu literature is a short prose portrait vividly presenting a person's appearance, habits, temperament, and character, practiced as khaka nigari. Mirza Farhatullah Baig is recognized as the genre's first regular writer.
Khamriyya
Khamriyya (الخمريات) is a genre of classical Arabic poetry devoted to wine, the cupbearer, and the drinking party, crystallizing in Abbasid Baghdad with Abū Nuwās as its master poet.
Khamsa of Amir Khusrau
The Khamsa of Amir Khusrau is a quintet of five narrative poems in Persian written by the Delhi poet Amir Khusrau between 1298 and 1302.
Khamsa of Navoi
The Khamsa of Navoi (خمسۀ نوائي, Quintet of Nava'i) is a set of five narrative poems in Chagatai Turkic by Ali Shir Nava'i, composed 1483–1485 and considered the central work of Chagatai literature.
Khamsa of Nizami
The Khamsa (Xəmsə), also called the Quintet, is a set of five Persian narrative poems by the poet Nizami Ganjavi, written between about 1177 and 1203.
Khan al-Khalili
Khan al-Khalili (خان الخليلي) is a realist novel by Naguib Mahfouz, published 1945 or 1946, about the Akif family's wartime move from Sakakini to Cairo's Khan al-Khalili district, love, tuberculosis, and loss.
Khan Kene
Khan Kene is the epithet of Kenesary Kasymuly, the last khan of the Kazakhs, and the title of Mukhtar Auezov's 1928 drama and Ilyas Esenberlin's 1969 novel.
Khari Boli poetry
Khari Boli poetry (खड़ी बोली काव्य) is Hindi poetry written in the Khari Boli dialect of the Delhi-Meerut region, established as a poetic language in the early 20th century.
Kharja (خرجة)
Kharja (خرجة, jarcha): the short closing section of the Andalusi muwashshah, written in colloquial Arabic or Romance, often in a woman's voice; the Romance kharjas are the oldest recorded Romance lyric poetry.
Khasakkinte Itihasam
Khasakkinte Itihasam (ഖസാക്കിന്റെ ഇതിഹാസം) is the 1969 debut Malayalam novel of O.V. Vijayan, following Ravi, a young astrophysics student who becomes a teacher in the village of Khasak.
Khavaran-nameh
Khavaran-nameh (خاوراننامه) is a Persian religious epic poem completed in 1426-27 by Ebn Hosam, recounting the heroic deeds of Ali and counted among the major Persian religious epics.
Khent (The Fool)
Khent (The Fool) is a historical and political novel by the Armenian writer Raffi, first published in 1880–1881 and set during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878, arguing for Armenian self-reliance.
Khevisberi Gocha
Khevisberi Gocha (Georgian: ხევისბერი გოჩა) is an 1884 Georgian historical novella by Aleksandre Qazbegi about a mountain village chief who kills his son for betraying the community.
Kheya
Kheya (খেয়া), Bengali for a ferry boat, is a 1906 book of poems by Rabindranath Tagore, whose symbolic title stands for the crossing of life; it was dedicated to Jagadish Chandra Bose.
Khirer Putul
Khirer Putul (ক্ষীরের পুতুল, "The Doll of Condensed Milk") is a Bengali children's fairy tale by Abanindranath Tagore, first published in 1896 and regarded as an early landmark of Bengali children's literature.
Khmer novel
The Khmer novel (ប្រលោមលោកខ្មែរ) is the prose fiction tradition of Cambodia written in Khmer, beginning with Rim Kin's Sophat, written in 1938 and published in 1942.
Khóc Dương Khuê
Khóc Dương Khuê ("Weeping for Dương Khuê") is a 1902 Vietnamese elegy in song thất lục bát verse by Nguyễn Khuyến, mourning his friend and fellow poet Dương Khuê.
Khorev
Khorev (Хорев) is a five-act tragedy by Aleksandr Sumarokov, published in 1747 and set in legendary Kiev under Prince Kii; it was the first classicist tragedy in Russian literature.
Khosrow and Shirin
Khosrow and Shirin (خسرو و شیرین) is a narrative poem by the 12th-century Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi, recounting the love of King Khosrow II Parviz for Princess Shirin.
Khuda Ki Basti
Khuda Ki Basti (خدا کی بستی, "God's Own Land") is a classic 1958 Urdu novel by Pakistani writer Shaukat Siddiqui, set in the slums of Karachi after partition.
Khufu's Wisdom
Khufu's Wisdom (Hikmat Khufu, حكمة خوفو) is the first novel by Egypt's Naguib Mahfouz, published in 1939 and set at the court of pharaoh Khufu.
Khumesh-Lider
Khumesh-Lider (חומש־לידער, Bible Songs) is a 1935 cycle of Yiddish poems by Itzik Manger, published in Warsaw, that recasts biblical figures as ordinary shtetl Jews.
Khutoot
Khutoot (خطوط), meaning "letters," is the Urdu term for letters and for the literary genre of Urdu letter writing known as maktub nigari, made a modern genre by Mirza Ghalib.
Kibyōshi
Kibyōshi is a Japanese genre of illustrated satirical fiction for adults, published in Edo (Tokyo) from 1775 to about 1806 as part of the kusazōshi picture books.
Kichaka Badha
Kichaka Badha, also written Kichaka Vadha, is the name of several Indian literary and theatrical works dramatizing the Mahabharata episode in which Bhima kills the courtier Kichaka.
Kichwamaji
Kichwamaji, meaning "Empty-head," is a 1974 Swahili novel by the Tanzanian writer Euphrase Kezilahabi, his second, following the university student Kazimoto, torn between modern education, Christianity, and cultural tradition.