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Mii-chan and Miss Yamada
Mii-chan and Miss Yamada (みいちゃんと山田さん, Mii-chan to Yamada-san) is a 2024–2026 manga by Nene Azuki on Kodansha's Magazine Pocket: two hostesses in 2012 Kabukicho, Mii-chan's foretold murder, 2.8 million copies, a 2027 anime, and major disability-advocacy controversy.
Mikael Blomkvist
Mikael Blomkvist is the fictional Swedish investigative journalist and publisher of Millennium magazine in Stieg Larsson's Millennium novels, an alter ego of Larsson nicknamed Kalle Blomkvist, played by Michael Nyqvist and Daniel Craig on film.
Mikhail Rakitin
Mikhail Osipovich (Misha) Rakitin is a character in Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov (1879-1880), a cynical seminarian and socialist writer who envies Alyosha's faith, plots with Grushenka for twenty-five roubles to corrupt him, and coins the "Karamazov question."
Milady de Winter
Milady de Winter is the chief female antagonist of Alexandre Dumas's 1844 novel The Three Musketeers: Cardinal Richelieu's spy, Athos's branded former wife, Buckingham's assassin-by-proxy, executed by the musketeers, and a frequent subject of later retellings.
Milagros de Nuestra Señora
Milagros de Nuestra Señora (Miracles of Our Lady) is a collection of 25 narrative poems about the Virgin Mary by the Spanish poet Gonzalo de Berceo.
Mildred Pierce
Mildred Pierce is James M. Cain's 1941 Knopf novel about a divorced Depression-era Los Angeles waitress who builds a restaurant empire for her ungrateful daughter Veda; adapted into the 1945 Joan Crawford Oscar-winning film and Todd Haynes's 2011 HBO miniseries with Kate Winslet.
Miles Franklin Award
The Miles Franklin Literary Award, Australia's most prestigious fiction prize, was established by Miles Franklin's 1954 will and first won by Patrick White's Voss in 1957. It awards A$60,000 annually for the novel of highest literary merit presenting Australian life in any of its phases.
Miles Vorkosigan
Miles Naismith Vorkosigan is the disabled Barrayaran protagonist of Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga, creator of the Dendarii Mercenaries, star of The Warrior's Apprentice through Cryoburn, and part of the inaugural best series Hugo winner.
Milesian tale
A Milesian tale is a short, lewd erotic story in prose, named after the lost Milesiaka of Aristides of Miletus, written about 100 BCE; the genre shaped Roman fiction like Petronius' Satyrica.
Millarworld
Millarworld: creator-owned comic imprint and entertainment company founded by Mark Millar in 2004 (Kick-Ass, Kingsman, Wanted, Jupiter's Legacy); Netflix's first-ever company acquisition, August 2017.
Millennium (novel series)
Millennium (Millenniumserien, Millennium Trilogy): Swedish crime series by Stieg Larsson, published posthumously 2005-2007, featuring Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander; over 100 million copies sold and continued by David Lagercrantz and Karin Smirnoff.
Millî Edebiyat romanı
Millî Edebiyat romanı (National Literature novel) is the Turkish fiction of 1911 to 1923, written in plain Turkish and focused on Anatolian life and social problems.
Mina Harker
Mina Harker (Wilhelmina Murray), Jonathan Harker's wife in Stoker's 1897 Dracula: shorthand-keeping compiler of the novel's documents, bitten three times by Dracula, and the only woman to survive drinking his blood.
Minas Tirith
Minas Tirith, also called Minas Anor and Mundburg, is the seven-tiered white capital of Gondor in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, founded S.A. 3320, renamed after Minas Ithil fell in T.A. 2002, and compared by Tolkien to Byzantium.
Minase Sangin Hyakuin
Minase Sangin Hyakuin (水無瀬三吟百韻) is a hundred-verse renga sequence composed in 1488 by the poets Sōgi, Shōhaku, and Sōchō as a memorial offering to Emperor Gotoba at Minase Shrine.
Mindblast
Mindblast; or, The Definitive Buddy is a 1984 collection of plays, fiction, poetry, and autobiography by Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera, his last book published during his lifetime.
Mine Boy
Mine Boy is a 1946 novel by the South African writer Peter Abrahams, following Xuma, a rural migrant who becomes a gold mine worker in Johannesburg.
Minerva McGonagall
Minerva McGonagall, Harry Potter's Transfiguration professor, Gryffindor Head, Deputy Headmistress and tabby-cat Animagus; born 4 October 1935 per Pottermore, later Hogwarts Headmistress, played by Maggie Smith.
Mingyi daifang lu
Mingyi daifang lu (明夷待访录), "Waiting for the Dawn," is a political treatise by Huang Zongxi, written around 1662, arguing that the realm belongs to the people rather than the ruler.
Ministry of Magic
Ministry of Magic: fictional government of British wizarding society in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter, established 1707 under Minister Ulick Gamp, London-based, entered via telephone box 62442, led by an elected Minister for Magic, distinct from MACUSA.
Minor Sherlock Holmes characters
Minor Sherlock Holmes characters: Mycroft Holmes, Irene Adler, Mrs Hudson, Colonel Sebastian Moran, the Scotland Yarders, and Baker Street Irregulars of Conan Doyle's 1887–1927 canon of four novels and fifty-six short stories.
Minty Alley
Minty Alley is a 1936 novel by Trinidadian writer C. L. R. James, his only novel, and the first by a black West Indian published in the United Kingdom.
Miorița
Miorița (The Little Ewe Lamb) is a Romanian folk pastoral ballad in which a shepherd forewarned of murder accepts his fate, his death becoming a cosmic wedding.
Miracles of Mary
The Miracles of Mary (Ge'ez: Täʾammərä Maryam) is an Ethiopian collection of stories about the Virgin Mary's miracles, translated into Ge'ez by 1400 and still read in churches today.
Miramar
Miramar (ميرامار) is a 1967 novel by Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz, set in an Alexandria pension whose four male residents narrate its events in turn.
Mirat-ul-Uroos
Mirat-ul-Uroos (مراۃ العروس, "The Bride's Mirror") is an 1869 Urdu novel by Deputy Nazir Ahmad, generally accepted as the first regular Urdu novel and its first best-seller.
Mirgorod
Mirgorod (Миргород) is an 1835 collection of four stories by Nikolai Gogol, published in Saint Petersburg and including Taras Bulba, Viy, and Old World Landowners.
Miro la tierra
Miro la tierra is a 1986 poetry collection by the Mexican writer José Emilio Pacheco, gathering poems written between 1983 and 1986 in response to the 1985 Mexico City earthquakes.
Mirza Sahiban (مرزا صاحباں)
Mirza Sahiban (مرزا صاحباں), one of Punjab's four great tragic romances with Heer-Ranjha, Sohni-Mahiwal and Sassi-Punnun: Kharal Jat Mirza elopes with Sial chief's daughter Sahiban, who breaks his arrows; her brothers kill him. First versified by Peelu, retold by Hafiz Barkhurdar and in many films.
Misa Melayu
Misa Melayu is an 18th-century Malay historical work by Raja Chulan, written in Jawi script, narrating the history of the Perak Sultanate and its relations with the Dutch East India Company.