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My Struggle (Knausgård novels)
My Struggle (Norwegian: Min kamp) is a six-volume autobiographical novel series by Karl Ove Knausgård, published in Norway from 2009 to 2011 and known as a defining work of autofiction.
My Sweet Audrina
My Sweet Audrina is V.C. Andrews's 1982 Gothic standalone novel (Poseidon Press) about Audrina Adare, raised at Whitefern under the shadow of a dead sister, adapted by Lifetime in 2016 and followed by the ghostwritten sequel Whitefern.
My Universities
My Universities (Мои университеты) is the final novella of Maxim Gorky's autobiographical trilogy, written in 1922–1923, recounting young Alexei Peshkov's failed attempt to enter Kazan University in the 1880s.
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
My Year of Rest and Relaxation is Ottessa Moshfegh's 2018 novel about an unnamed woman who medicates herself into a yearlong sleep in her New York apartment, ending with the September 11 attacks.
Mycroft Holmes
Mycroft Holmes is Sherlock Holmes's elder brother in Arthur Conan Doyle's stories, first appearing in 'The Greek Interpreter' (Strand, September 1893). Seven years Sherlock's senior, smarter in deduction but lacking energy, he audits Whitehall, founded the Diogenes Club, and appears in only four canonical stories.
Myeonangjeongga
Myeonangjeongga is a 16th-century Korean gasa poem by the Joseon poet Song Sun, describing the scenery of all four seasons around Myeonangjeong pavilion in Damyang.
Myittaza
Myittaza (မေတ္တာစာ) is a Burmese literary genre of epistles, formal letters first written in the fifteenth century, when they served as a kind of gazette reporting events and opinions.
Mymensingh Gitika
Mymensingh Gitika (মৈমনসিংহ গীতিকা; also Maimansingha Gitika) is a collection of ten Bengali folk ballads from eastern Bengal, collected by Chandra Kumar De and published in 1923.
Myrcella Baratheon
Myrcella Baratheon, fictional princess of A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones; legally Robert Baratheon's daughter, biologically Jaime Lannister's; betrothed to Trystane Martell, alive in the books, poisoned by Ellaria Sand in the show.
Myriad Colors Phantom World
Myriad Colors Phantom World (無彩限のファントム・ワールド, Musaigen no Phantom World) is a Sōichirō Hatano light novel (KA Esuma Bunko, 2013) and 2016 Kyoto Animation TV anime about students at Hosea Academy sealing phantoms after an event altered human perception.
Myricae
Myricae is a poetry collection by Giovanni Pascoli, first published in 1891 and enlarged through nine editions to 156 short lyrics of the Romagna countryside that shaped twentieth-century Italian poetry.
Mysteries
Mysteries (Mysterier) is an 1892 novel by the Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun, in which an eccentric stranger, Johan Nilsen Nagel, unsettles a small coastal town.
Mysterious Distances
Mysterious Distances (Czech: Tajemné dálky) is the first poetry collection of the Czech symbolist poet Otokar Březina, published in Prague in 1895, a cycle of 30 poems announcing a new poetic language in Czech literature.
Mystery-Bouffe
Mystery-Bouffe (Мистерия-буфф) is a play in verse by Vladimir Mayakovsky, written in 1918 and first staged that November in Petrograd as the first Soviet play glorifying the proletarian revolution.
Myth, Literature and the African World
Myth, Literature and the African World is a 1976 collection of five critical essays by the Nigerian playwright and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, published by Cambridge University Press.
Mythopoeia
Mythopoeia, Greek for myth-making, is the deliberate creation of mythology in fiction or culture. Named by Tolkien's 1931 poem for C. S. Lewis; central to fantasy studies, sub-creation, and the Mythopoeic Society (founded 1967).
Mythopoeic Awards
Mythopoeic Awards: annual literary prizes of the Mythopoeic Society since 1971 for fantasy fiction (adult, young adult, children's) and scholarship on the Inklings and on myth and fantasy, presented at Mythcon.
Mzingile
Mzingile (Swahili for "Labyrinth") is a 1991 philosophical novella in Swahili by Tanzanian novelist Euphrase Kezilahabi, regarded with Nagona as a founding text of the experimental Swahili novel.
Na Aane Wala Kal
Na Aane Wala Kal (न आने वाला कल) is a 1968 Hindi novel by Mohan Rakesh about a schoolmaster who resigns and finds no resolution.
Na no hana ya
"Na no hana ya" (菜の花や) is one of the most famous haiku by the Japanese poet and painter Yosa Buson, composed in 1774 at Mount Maya near Kobe.
Nachiyar Tirumoli
Nachiyar Tirumoli (நாச்சியார் திருமொழி) is a Tamil devotional poem of 143 verses by Andal, the only woman among the twelve Vaishnava Alvar saint-poets of South India.
Nada Geethe
Nada Geethe (ನಾಡಗೀತೆ), Karnataka's state anthem, is Kuvempu's Kannada poem Jaya Bharata Jananiya Tanujate, adopted in 2003 and officially rendered at two minutes thirty seconds in Mysore Ananthaswamy's tune.
Nadal Prize
The Nadal Prize (Premio Nadal) is Spain's oldest literary prize, awarded each 6 January by Ediciones Destino of Barcelona for an original, unpublished novel in Spanish.
Nadi ke Dweep
Nadi ke Dweep (नदी के द्वीप) is a 1951 Hindi psychological novel by Agyeya about four educated people whose lives unfold through conversation and letters.
Nadie nada nunca
Nadie nada nunca is a 1980 novel by the Argentine writer Juan José Saer, following a man's summer days near Rincón, Santa Fe, while someone kills horses.
Nadir Shah Di Var
Nadir Shah Di Var (Punjabi: ਨਾਦਰਸ਼ਾਹ ਦੀ ਵਾਰ) is an 18th-century Punjabi var, a heroic epic ode composed by Najabat on Nadir Shah's invasion of 1739.
Nafahat al-Uns
Nafahat al-Uns (نفحات الانس), "Breaths of Intimacy", is a Persian compilation of Sufi biographies by the poet Jami (1414–1492), covering more than 600 masters, including 34 women ascetics.
Nagona
Nagona is a short experimental Swahili novel by the Tanzanian writer Euphrase Kezilahabi, published in 1990 and regarded, with its companion Mzingile, as the founding text of the new Swahili novel.
Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature
The Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature is an award given since 1996 by the American University in Cairo Press to the best contemporary Arabic novel not yet translated into English.
Nagyvárosi ikonok
Nagyvárosi ikonok ("Big-city icons") is a 1970 poetry collection by the Hungarian poet János Pilinszky, his third book of verse, gathering poems from 1940 to 1970.