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Kokon Chomonjū
Kokon Chomonjū (古今著聞集, A Collection of Notable Tales Old and New) is a Japanese anecdote collection compiled in 1254 by Tachibana no Narisue, with over 700 tales in 20 volumes.
Kokoro (こゝろ)
Kokoro (こゝろ), a novel by Japanese writer Natsume Sōseki, was serialized in 1914. It follows an unnamed university student and the solitary older man he calls Sensei.
Kokoro Connect (ココロコネクト)
Kokoro Connect (ココロコネクト) is an 11-volume light novel series by Sadanatsu Anda, published in Famitsu Bunko 2010-2013, about five Cultural Research Club members hit by supernatural phenomena caused by Fusenkazura; adapted into a 2012 SILVER LINK. anime.
Kolkhoze
Kolkhoze is a 2025 autobiographical narrative by Emmanuel Carrère (P.O.L, August 28, 2025) about his mother Hélène Carrère d'Encausse and four generations of family history; it won the Prix Médicis 2025.
Kolportageroman
A Kolportageroman was a long German-language novel of the 19th century, sold in installments of 16 to 48 pages by peddlers and read mainly by factory workers and domestic servants.
Kolumbowie
Kolumbowie (full title Kolumbowie. Rocznik 20) is a 1957 three-volume novel by Roman Bratny about young Home Army soldiers under occupation and in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944.
Kolyma Tales
Kolyma Tales (Колымские рассказы) is a cycle of stories and sketches by Russian writer Varlam Shalamov about life in the Soviet labor camps, written between 1954 and 1973 after his imprisonment on Kolyma.
Komas uit 'n Bamboesstok
Komas uit 'n Bamboesstok is a 1979 Afrikaans poetry collection by D.J. Opperman, written after his near-fatal illness of 1976 and winner of the 1980 Hertzog Prize.
Komiks
Komiks is the Filipino form of comics, a tradition of illustrated storytelling that arose in the 1920s, peaked as mass entertainment, and declined in the 1990s.
Kong Yiji
Kong Yiji (孔乙己) is a short story in vernacular Chinese by Lu Xun, first published in New Youth in April 1919 and collected in Call to Arms in 1923.
Kongcongzi
The Kongcongzi (孔叢子) is a Chinese collection of anecdotes and dialogues presenting the words and deeds of Confucius and his descendants, traditionally attributed to Kong Fu, an eighth-generation descendant of Confucius.
Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! (このライトノベルがすごい！)
Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! (このライトノベルがすごい！) is an annual guidebook by Takarajimasha ranking the year's best light novels, characters, and illustrators, whose top placements often foreshadow anime adaptations.
Kono Oto Tomare! Sounds of Life (この音とまれ!)
Kono Oto Tomare! Sounds of Life (この音とまれ!) is a koto-club manga by Amyu serialized in Jump SQ. since 2012, adapted into a 26-episode 2019 anime by Platinum Vision and a stage play, with family-composed koto pieces that won record awards.
KonoSuba
KonoSuba (この素晴らしい世界に祝福を！, Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo!) is a Japanese isekai-comedy light novel by Natsume Akatsuki and Kurone Mishima about Kazuma's dysfunctional party with goddess Aqua, wizard Megumin, and crusader Darkness; 17 main volumes, anime from 2016, film, and ENGI season 4 in 2027.
Konrad Wallenrod
Konrad Wallenrod is a narrative poem by Adam Mickiewicz, published in 1828, telling of a Lithuanian raised by the Teutonic Knights who destroys the Order from within.
Koöperasiestories
Koöperasiestories is a collection of humorous Afrikaans short stories by P.G. du Plessis, set in the small town of Gezinasrus and told from the local co-operative's stoep.
Kordian
Kordian is an 1834 romantic drama in verse by Polish poet Juliusz Słowacki, following a young Pole's journey from dreamer to would-be assassin of Tsar Nicholas I.
Koroghlu
Koroghlu (Köroğlu; also Görogly, Gurughli) is an early-17th-century Turkic folk hero and poet whose epic cycle, told in at least 17 versions, spread from Anatolia across Central Asia.
Korupsi
Korupsi, Indonesian for corruption, is also the landmark 1954 novel by Pramoedya Ananta Toer that made corruption a central subject of modern Indonesian fiction, translated into French and English.
Kōshoku Gonin Onna
Kōshoku Gonin Onna is a 1686 collection of five amorous tales by the Japanese writer Ihara Saikaku, following townspeople women whose love affairs collide with Edo-period law.
Kōshoku Ichidai Otoko
Kōshoku Ichidai Otoko (好色一代男, The Life of an Amorous Man) is a 1682 Japanese novel by Ihara Saikaku, regarded as the founding work of the ukiyo-zōshi genre of early modern prose fiction.
Kosovo Cycle
The Kosovo cycle (Косовски циклус) is a cycle of Serbian oral epic folk poems about the Battle of Kosovo of 1389, forming the central section of Serbian epic poetry.
Kot w pustym mieszkaniu
"Kot w pustym mieszkaniu" ("Cat in an Empty Apartment") is a poem by the Polish Nobel laureate Wisława Szymborska, spoken by a cat whose owner has died.
Kothe Kharak Singh
Kothe Kharak Singh (Punjabi: ਕੋਠੇ ਖੜਕ ਸਿੰਘ) is a 1985 Punjabi novel by Ram Sarup Ankhi, set in a fictional Malwa village, that won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1987.
Koti Brahmanda Sundari
Koti Brahmanda Sundari (କୋଟି ବ୍ରହ୍ମାଣ୍ଡ ସୁନ୍ଦରୀ) is a long Odia narrative poem by the poet Upendra Bhanja, narrating the love and marriage of a princess with prince Pushpaketu of Pataliputra.
Köy romanı
Köy romanı (village novel) is a Turkish literature genre for novels treating village life and peasants' hardships, led by Mahmut Makal's Bizim Köy (1950) and widespread until about 1980.
Kozy Korpesh and Bayan Sulu
Kozy Korpesh and Bayan Sulu (Қозы Көрпеш – Баян сұлу) is a Kazakh lyric-epic love poem, sung from the 13th–14th centuries and compared to Romeo and Juliet.
Kraithong
Kraithong (ไกรทอง) is a Thai folktale in which the young hero Kraithong of Nonthaburi defeats Chalawan, the man-eating crocodile king of Phichit, and rescues the merchant's daughter Tapao Thong.
Krakoan Age
The Krakoan Age (2019-2024) is Marvel's X-Men publishing era begun by Jonathan Hickman's House of X/Powers of X, in which mutants founded the sovereign island nation Krakoa, resurrected their dead via the Five, and traded miracle medicines before Orchis destroyed the nation.
Krákumál
Krákumál is an anonymous Old Norse skaldic poem of twenty-nine stanzas, presented as the death song of the Viking leader Ragnarr loðbrók, dying in a snake pit.