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Krandasi
Krandasi (ক্রন্দসী), a Bengali word meaning a weeping woman, is a 1937 collection of poetry by Sudhindranath Datta and a central work of Bengali modernist verse.
Krang
Krang is the brain-like alien warlord villain created by David Wise for the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, voiced by Pat Fraley, inspired by the comics' Utroms, riding in Shredder-built android bodies, later reimagined as IDW's General Krang and the Kraang.
Kraven's Last Hunt
Kraven's Last Hunt: 1987 Marvel Spider-Man storyline by J.M. DeMatteis and Mike Zeck (working title Fearful Symmetry), in which Kraven defeats, buries, and replaces Spider-Man before his suicide; sequel Soul of the Hunter (1992).
Krawang-Bekasi
Krawang-Bekasi is a 1948 poem by the Indonesian poet Chairil Anwar, spoken by dead independence fighters lying between Karawang and Bekasi, West Java; an adaptation of Archibald MacLeish.
Krazy Kat
Krazy Kat, George Herriman's American comic strip (1913–1944) in Hearst's New York Evening Journal: Ignatz Mouse throws bricks at the gender-ambiguous cat Krazy, who reads them as love messages; The Comics Journal ranked it the 20th century's best strip.
Kree–Skrull War
The Kree–Skrull War is a 1971–1972 Avengers #89–97 comic arc by Roy Thomas with Neal Adams and the Buscema brothers, pitting the Kree and Skrull empires against each other with Earth, the Avengers, Captain Mar-Vell, and Rick Jones at the center; foundational for Marvel cosmic crossovers and adapted loosely in the 2019 Captain Marvel film.
Krik? Krak!
Krik? Krak! is a 1995 collection of nine short stories by Haitian American writer Edwidge Danticat, a National Book Award finalist drawn from Haitian oral storytelling.
Kriminalroman
Kriminalroman is the German term for a crime novel, colloquially shortened to Krimi, in which a crime, usually a murder, and its investigation stand at the center of the plot.
Kripa (कृप)
Kripa (कृप, Kripacharya), Brahmin warrior in the Mahabharata: son of sage Sharadvan, twin of Kripi, first teacher of the Kuru princes, Kaurava fighter, one of three Kaurava survivors of the Kurukshetra war, later teacher of Parikshit and one of the Chiranjivi immortals.
Krishna bhakti poetry
Krishna bhakti poetry (कृष्ण भक्ति काव्य) is the body of devotional verse centered on the Hindu deity Krishna, flourishing in medieval Hindi and its Braj Bhasha dialect.
Krishnagatha
Krishnagatha (കൃഷ്ണഗാഥ), also called Krishnappattu or simply Cherussery, is a Malayalam narrative poem on the life of Krishna, composed by Cherusseri Namboothiri in the court of Kolathunadu around 1475 in simple Malayalam in the manjari meter.
Krishnakanter Will
Krishnakanter Will (কৃষ্ণকান্তের উইল) is an 1878 Bengali social novel by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay about a love triangle among Rohini, Bhramar, and Govindalal, and a set text in West Bengal universities.
Krishnakarnamrita
Krishnakarnamrita (Kṛṣṇakarṇāmṛta, "nectar for Krishna's ears") is a medieval Sanskrit devotional poem of short ardent verses praising the youthful Krishna, ascribed to the poet Bilvamaṅgala, also called Līlāśuka, and cherished across India, especially in Bengal.
Krishnakumari
Krishnakumari (কৃষ্ণকুমারী) is a Bengali verse play by Michael Madhusudan Dutt, completed in 1860, the first successful Bengali tragedy and the first Bengali play on a historical theme.
Kristin Lavransdatter
Kristin Lavransdatter is a three-volume historical novel by the Norwegian author Sigrid Undset, published 1920 to 1922 and set in 14th-century Norway, key to her 1928 Nobel Prize.
Krittivasi Ramayan
The Krittivasi Ramayan (কৃত্তিবাসী রামায়ণ), also known as Sriram Panchali, is the first Bengali translation of the Ramayana, composed by Krittibas Ojha in the 14th or 15th century.
Krótka rozprawa między trzema osobami, Panem, Wójtem a Plebanem
Krótka rozprawa is a satirical verse dialogue by the Polish Renaissance writer Mikołaj Rej, printed in Kraków in 1543, debating a nobleman, a peasant, and a priest.
Krvavé sonety
Krvavé sonety (The Bloody Sonnets) is a cycle of 32 anti-war sonnets by the Slovak poet Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, written after the outbreak of the First World War in 1914.
Kshanika
Khanika (ক্ষণিকা), meaning "a moment", is a Bengali poetry book by Rabindranath Tagore, published in 1900, containing 59 poems that celebrate life's fleeting moments, composed at Shilaidaha.
Kubla Khan
Kubla Khan, or A Vision in a Dream, is a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, composed around 1797, published in 1816, and imagining the pleasure-dome of Kubla Khan at Xanadu.
Kuchelavrutham
Kuchelavrutham (കുചേലവൃത്തം, "the deeds of Kuchela") is a celebrated Malayalam boat song by the eighteenth-century poet Ramapurathu Warrier, telling how Krishna granted his poor friend Kuchela wealth, and also a Kathakali play on the same story.
Kudrun
Kudrun, also Gudrun, is an anonymous Middle High German heroic epic of 1,705 stanzas, composed around 1230/40 in the Bavarian-Austrian region, telling of three generations whose bridal quests and abductions end in reconciliation rather than revenge.
Kufikirika
Kufikirika is a short allegorical novel in Kiswahili by the Tanzanian writer Shaaban Robert, set in an imaginary kingdom and published by Oxford University Press in 1967.
Kuli
Kuli, Swahili for dockworker, is a 1979 Swahili novel by the Zanzibari writer Adam Shafi Adam, built around the dockworkers' strike of 1948 in colonial Zanzibar.
Kuliyat-e-Mahjoor
Kuliyat-e-Mahjoor (کلیاتِ مہجور), the collected works of Mahjoor, gathers the Kashmiri poetry of Peerzada Ghulam Ahmad Mahjoor (1887 to 1952), Kashmir's national poet, in a standard 1984 edition.
Kulliyat
Kulliyat (کلیات) is a compiled collection of a poet's complete works in Urdu and Persian literature, gathering multiple books rather than one diwan, as in Kulliyat-e-Iqbal.
Kulliyat of Urfi Shirazi
The Kulliyat of Urfi Shirazi (کلیات عرفی) is the collected works of Persian poet Urfi Shirazi (1555–1591), a founder of the Indian style of Persian poetry.
Kulliyat-e-Nazeer
Kulliyat-e-Nazeer is the collected works of Nazeer Akbarabadi, the eighteenth-century Agra poet regarded as Urdu's first popular, or awami, poet, gathered after his death in 1830.
Külvárosi éj
Külvárosi éj, meaning "Night on the Outskirts," is a 1932 poem by Hungarian poet József Attila, title poem of his fifth collection and one of his best-known works.
Kumara Sambhavamu
Kumara Sambhavamu ("The Birth of Kumara") is a Telugu epic poem by the 11th- or 12th-century poet Nannechoda, regarded as the first mahakavya in Telugu literature.