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Kir Janja
Kir Janja (Кир Јања) is an 1837 three-act comedy by the Serbian writer Jovan Sterija Popović, first published as Tvrdica (The Miser) and routinely compared with Molière's L'Avare.
Kiribati oral literature
Kiribati oral literature is the body of myths, legends, genealogical lists, spells, and chants by which the people of Kiribati, the former Gilbert Islands, transmitted their past.
Kirio Fan Club
Kirio Fan Club (霧尾ファンクラブ) is a josei romantic-comedy manga by Chikyu no Osakana Ponchan, serialized on Comic Ruelle 2022–2024 in six volumes, about schoolgirls Aimi and Nami obsessing over classmate Kirio; adapted into a 2025 live-action drama and a 2026 Satelight anime on HIDIVE.
Kirsha Danilov's collection
Kirsha Danilov's collection (Сборник Кирши Данилова) is an eighteenth-century Russian manuscript compiled in Siberia by the singer Kirsha Danilov, the earliest substantial collection of Russian byliny.
Kirtikaumudi
The Kirtikaumudi (कीर्तिकौमुदी, "Moonlight of Fame") is a 13th-century Sanskrit mahakavya by the poet Somesvaradeva celebrating the Gujarat minister Vastupala and narrating Chalukya dynasty history.
Kishore Chandrananda Champu
Kishore Chandrananda Champu (କିଶୋରଚନ୍ଦ୍ରାନନ୍ଦ ଚମ୍ପୂ) is a famous Odia champu kavya by Kabisurjya Baladeba Ratha, with 34 songs, one for each of the Odia alphabet's 34 consonants, on Radha and Krishna.
Kiss of the Fur Queen
Kiss of the Fur Queen is a 1998 novel by Cree author Tomson Highway about two Cree brothers taken to a Catholic residential school in Manitoba.
Kissa Raja Rasalu
Kissa Raja Rasalu (ਰਾਜਾ ਰਸਾਲੂ) is the cycle of Punjabi oral and written tales about Raja Rasalu, a legendary hero-king told as a qissa, a long narrative poem.
Kiswahili popular fiction
Kiswahili popular fiction, known in Kiswahili as fasihi pendwa, is mass-market fiction written in Kiswahili for entertainment, concentrated in East Africa and dominated by crime, detective, spy, and romance stories.
Kiswahili short story
The Kiswahili short story (Swahili: hadithi fupi) is a short prose fiction work in Swahili treating a single idea with few characters, dominant in East Africa since the 1970s.
Kitaar my kruis
Kitaar my kruis is a 1961 poetry collection by the South African writer Adam Small, written largely in Kaaps and directed against racial discrimination and apartheid.
Kitab al-Hamasah
Kitab al-Hamasah (كتاب الحماسة, "Book of Fortitude") is a celebrated Arabic poetry anthology compiled by the Abbasid poet Abu Tammam, arranging 881 poems in ten thematic chapters.
Kitab-i Ahmad
Kitab-i Ahmad, or Ketab-i Ahmad (کتاب احمد), is a Persian educational work by Mirza ʿAbd-al-Raḥim Ṭālebof, framed as dialogues between the author and his son Aḥmad.
Kitanai Kimi ga Ichiban Kawaii
Kitanai Kimi ga Ichiban Kawaii (きたない君がいちばんかわいい) is a five-volume, 31-chapter yuri manga by Manio, serialized in Comic Yuri Hime 2019–2022 about classmates Airi Sezaki and Hinako Hanamura's secret affair, ranked 6th in AnimeJapan 2024's manga-to-animate poll.
Kitne Pakistan
Kitne Pakistan (कितने पाकिस्तान), meaning "How Many Pakistans?", is a 2000 Hindi novel by Kamleshwar that treats the 1947 Partition as a recurring metaphor for every division born of hatred.
Kısas-ı Enbiya
Kısas-ı Enbiya (قصص الأنبياء, "stories of the prophets") is a genre narrating the prophets' lives from Adam to Muhammad; Rabguzi wrote the first Turkish example in the 14th century.
Klara and the Sun
Klara and the Sun is Kazuo Ishiguro's 2021 novel, his first after the 2017 Nobel Prize, narrated by a solar-powered Artificial Friend devoted to sickly Josie in a dystopian future of 'lifted' children; Taika Waititi's 2026 Sony film adaptation with Jenna Ortega opened to negative reviews.
Kleine Aster
"Kleine Aster" ("Little Aster") is a 1912 poem by German physician-poet Gottfried Benn, opening poem of Morgue und andere Gedichte and a key text of Expressionism.
Knife of Dreams
Knife of Dreams is the eleventh Wheel of Time novel by Robert Jordan, published by Tor Books on October 11, 2005; his last completed volume, resolving Faile's captivity, Mat and Tuon, Elayne's war, and Egwene's capture before the Last Battle.
Knight's & Magic (ナイツ&マジック)
Knight's & Magic (ナイツ＆マジック) is a Japanese fantasy mecha isekai series by Hisago Amazake-no: a programmer otaku reincarnated as Ernesti Eschavalier builds and pilots mana-fueled Silhouette Knights; web novel 2010, Hero Bunko light novels 2013, Young Gangan manga, and a 2017 Eight Bit TV anime.
Knightly tale
The knightly tale, or chivalric romance (Russian: рыцарский роман), is a medieval genre following a knight through adventures, trials, and love; it arose in twelfth-century France.
Kobzar
Kobzar (Кобзарь) is the first collection of poetry by Taras Shevchenko, published in Saint Petersburg in 1840, which became the collective title of his entire poetic legacy.
Kochu Sita
Kochu Sita (കൊച്ചുസീത, "Little Sita") is a Malayalam narrative poem by Vallathol Narayana Menon, first published in the late 1920s, that criticizes the caste customs of Kerala's matrilineal Nair families.
Koçi Bey Risalesi
Koçi Bey Risalesi is a pair of 17th-century Ottoman reform treatises by palace official Koçi Bey, presented to Sultans Murad IV and Ibrahim in 1631 and 1640.
Kodocha
Kodocha, short for Kodomo no Omocha (こどものおもちゃ, Child's Toy), is Miho Obana's shōjo manga serialized in Ribon 1994–1998 in 10 volumes, winning the 1998 Kodansha Manga Award (shōjo), with a 102-episode 1996–1998 anime.
Kogoro Akechi (明智小五郎)
Kogoro Akechi (明智小五郎) is Edogawa Ranpo's famous fictional detective, first appearing in "D坂の殺人事件" (1925) as a shabby amateur and later the star of the Boy Detective Club series against the Fiend with Twenty Faces.
Koi Kaze (恋風)
Koi Kaze (恋風) is a Japanese romance manga by Motoi Yoshida about siblings who fall in love, serialized in Evening from 2001 and adapted into a 2004 anime.
Koji Suzuki
Koji Suzuki (鈴木光司, 1957–2026) was a Japanese horror writer whose novel Ring, published in 1991, launched a boom in Japanese horror and was filmed in Japan and Hollywood.
Kokin Wakashū
The Kokin Wakashū (古今和歌集), also known as Kokinshū, is the first imperially commanded anthology of waka poetry, ordered by Emperor Daigo in 905 and completed around 913.
Kokkeibon
Kokkeibon (滑稽本, "comic books") were a genre of humorous Japanese fiction of the late Edo period, depicting the comic speech and daily life of Edo townspeople through dialogue.