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Kumara Vyasa Bharata
Kumara Vyasa Bharata, formally titled Karnata Bharata Kathamanjari and also called Gadugina Bharata, is a 15th-century Kannada epic retelling the first ten parvas of the Mahabharata.
Kumarasambhava
Kumarasambhava is a Sanskrit court epic by Kalidasa about the courtship of Shiva and Parvati and the birth of their son, the war god Kumara.
Kumarasambhavam
Kumarasambhavam (కుమారసంభవము, "the birth of Kumara") is a Telugu adaptation of Kalidasa's Sanskrit epic, attributed to the 12th- or 13th-century poet Nannechodadeva and printed in 1909.
Kumbhakarna (कुम्भकर्ण)
Kumbhakarna (कुम्भकर्ण), giant rakshasa brother of Ravana in the Ramayana, cursed with months-long sleep and insatiable hunger; woken for the war against Rama, recast by Kamban as a tragic hero, and read medically as hypothalamic obesity.
Kumulipo
The Kumulipo is the Hawaiian cosmogonic chant of about 2,102 lines, tracing sea life, plants, gods, and humans from primordial darkness to the royal family it honors.
Kunjini
Kunjini (कुञ्जिनी) is a Nepali khandakavya, a short narrative poem by Laxmi Prasad Devkota written around 1945, telling of Kunjini's love for the soldier Gore and her forced marriage.
Kunon the Sorcerer Can See (魔術師クノンは見えている)
Kunon the Sorcerer Can See (魔術師クノンは見えている) is a Japanese fantasy series by Umikaze Minamino and Laruha about a blind boy creating eyes with water magic; it began on Shōsetsuka ni Narō in 2021, became a Kadokawa Books light novel and La-na manga, and aired as a 13-episode Platinum Vision anime in January 2026.
Künstlerroman
Künstlerroman, German for "artist-novel," is the Bildungsroman subtype whose protagonist is an artist; Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) is its classic, with examples from Mann, Zola, Turkish, and Latin American fiction.
Kunta Kinte
Kunta Kinte, also known as Toby Waller, is the central character of Alex Haley's 1976 novel Roots and its adaptations: a Mandinka man kidnapped in 1767 and enslaved in Maryland.
Kunti (कुन्ती)
Kunti (कुन्ती, birth name Pritha), Mahabharata figure: Pandu's wife, mother of Yudhishthira, Bhima, Arjuna, and of Karna by Surya via Durvasa's boon; later renunciant.
Kurinchippattu
Kurinchippattu (குறிஞ்சிப்பாட்டு, "Song of the Mountains") is a classical Tamil poem of the Sangam era by the poet Kapilar, one of the ten Pattuppattu idylls, naming 99 mountain flowers.
Kurinji Malar
Kurinji Malar (குறிஞ்சி மலர்) is a Tamil social romance novel by Na. Parthasarathy, published in 1960. Set in Madurai, it is regarded as his magnum opus.
Kurinjithen
Kurinjithen (குறிஞ்சித்தேன், "honey from the kurinji") is a 1963 Tamil novel by Rajam Krishnan, a family saga of three Badaga generations in the Nilgiri hills, credited as the first Tamil creative work with a tribal background.
Kurt Barlow
Kurt Barlow, born Kurt Breichen, is the ancient German vampire and main antagonist of Stephen King's 1975 novel 'Salem's Lot, posing as an antiques dealer with familiar Richard Straker; portrayed by Reggie Nalder (1979), Rutger Hauer (2004), and Alexander Ward (2024).
Kurt Wallander
Kurt Wallander is the fictional Ystad police inspector created by Swedish author Henning Mankell, lead of a crime series begun with Faceless Killers (1991), translated into over 40 languages, adapted into Swedish and BBC television, and continued via daughter Linda Wallander.
Kurtz (Heart of Darkness)
Kurtz is the Belgian ivory trader and antagonist of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1899), the man Marlow travels up the Congo to find. Known for the 'Exterminate all the brutes!' postscript, his final words, and Brando's Apocalypse Now portrayal.
Kurukshetra War
The Kurukshetra War (Kuruyuddha) is the eighteen-day battle between the Kauravas and the Pandavas, two branches of the Kuru dynasty, told in the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata.
Kuruntokai
Kuruntokai (குறுந்தொகை) is a classical Tamil anthology of 401 short love poems, second of the Eight Anthologies of Sangam literature and dated between about 200 BC and AD 200.
Kuruthi Punal
Kuruthi Punal (குருதிப்புனல்) is a Tamil political novel by Indira Parthasarathy, written in response to the 1968 Kilvenmani massacre and winner of the 1977 Sahitya Akademi Award.
Kusadikika
Kusadikika is a Swahili-language allegorical novel by Shaaban Robert, first published in 1951, satirizing greed, abuse of power, and the expectation that people believe without questioning.
Kusazōshi
Kusazōshi (草双紙) is the term for woodblock-printed illustrated popular fiction published in Edo from the mid-17th century to the late 19th century, including akahon and kibyōshi.
Kusha (कुश) (Ramayana)
Kusha (कुश), with twin brother Lava, is a son of Rama and Sita in the Ramayana, born in Valmiki's ashram, named after kusha grass, first singer of the epic at Rama's ashvamedha, later ruler of Kosala from Kushasthali.
Kusunoki's Flunking Her High School Glow-Up
Kusunoki's Flunking Her High School Glow-Up (楠木さんは高校デビューに失敗している), also Kusunoki-san Failed Her High School Debut, is a romantic-comedy manga by Mitsuki Mii serialized on Pixiv Comic (Ichijinsha's Comic Pool) since October 21, 2022, published in English by Kodansha USA since August 2024, with a Passione × Hayabusa Film TV anime announced in July 2026.
Kusunoki's Garden of Gods
Kusunoki's Garden of Gods (神の庭付き楠木邸, Kami no Niwatsuki Kusunoki-tei) is a Japanese light novel series by Enju and ox about Minato Kusunoki, whose spiritual power purifies a haunted country house that then attracts deities. Published by Dengeki no Shin Bungei from 2021, adapted into a manga and a 2026 Juvenage TV anime.
Kusuo Saiki (斉木楠雄)
Kusuo Saiki (斉木楠雄) is a high school student and protagonist of Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan. He possesses nearly every psychic power but uses them to avoid attention and live quietly.
Kuttippuram Palam
Kuttippuram Palam (കുറ്റിപ്പുറം പാലം) is a Malayalam poem by Edasseri Govindan Nair, published in 1954, mixing pride in the new Kuttippuram bridge with anxiety over modernization, and regarded as a canonical work of Malayalam ecopoetry.
Kuvalayamala
Kuvalayamala (कुवलयमाला), also called Kuvalayamālā-kahā, is a Jain Prakrit narrative by Uddyotanasūri, composed in 779 CE at Jalor and valued for its samples of many early medieval Indian languages.
Kuvâyi Milliye
Kuvâyi Milliye, meaning "national forces," names the irregular resistance bands formed in Anatolia after 1919 and Nâzım Hikmet's epic poem about them, published in 1965.
Kuvayı Milliye Destanı
Kuvayı Milliye Destanı (Kuvâyi Milliye) is an epic poem by the Turkish poet Nâzım Hikmet retelling the Turkish War of Independence, composed in prison and first published in 1965.
Kuyil Pattu
Kuyil Pattu ("The Cuckoo's Song") is an allegorical narrative poem by the Tamil poet Subramania Bharati, written during his exile in Pondicherry along with Kannan Pattu and Panchali Sabatham.