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Pranayaballari
Pranayaballari (ପ୍ରଣୟବଲ୍ଲରୀ), also rendered Pranaya Ballavi, is a kavya, a narrative poem, by the Odia poet Gangadhar Meher (1862–1924), the Swabhaba Kabi, whose Sanskrit-based kavyas helped shape modern Odia literature.
Prantik
Prantik (প্রান্তিক; The Borderland) is a 1938 collection of 18 Bengali poems by Rabindranath Tagore, composed in his final poetic phase after an illness in 1937.
Prarodanam
Prarodanam (പ്രരോദനം) is a 1919 Malayalam elegiac poem by N. Kumaran Asan mourning the scholar A. R. Rajaraja Varma, whom Asan regarded as a guru.
Prathapa Mudaliar Charitram
Prathapa Mudaliar Charitram (பிரதாப முதலியார் சரித்திரம்) is a Tamil novel by Mayuram Vedanayagam Pillai, written in 1857 and published in 1879, regarded as the first Tamil novel.
Pratibhā
Pratibhā (प्रतिभा) is the inborn faculty of poetic genius or creative intuition in Sanskrit poetics, regarded by most theorists as the principal cause of poetic creation, alongside scholarship and practice.
Pratigya
Pratigya (प्रतिज्ञा, "The Vow") is a 1927 Hindi social novel by Munshi Premchand that takes widow remarriage as its central problem through Amritray and Poorna.
Pratijna Yaugandharayana
Pratijna Yaugandharayana is a Sanskrit play of the Trivandrum corpus ascribed to Bhasa, in which the minister Yaugandharayana vows to free his captive king, Udayana, who never appears on stage.
Pre-Islamic Arabic poetry
Pre-Islamic Arabic poetry (al-shiʿr al-jāhilī) is the earliest Arabic literary corpus, chiefly monorhymed qaṣīda odes such as the Muʿallaqāt, transmitted through Muslim-era collections, debated for authenticity, and foundational to Classical Arabic and Quranic studies.
Preacher (comics)
Preacher (comics): Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's 66-issue DC Vertigo series (1995–2000) about preacher Jesse Custer, Genesis, and the search for God; 75 comics total, Eisner-winning, adapted for AMC.
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (L 86, FL 87) is Claude Debussy's roughly 10-minute single-movement symphonic poem of 1892-1894 after Mallarmé's 1876 poem, premiered 22 December 1894 in Paris under Gustave Doret, encored by its audience, and famously choreographed by Nijinsky in 1912.
Prelude to Water Melody: Bright Moon
Prelude to Water Melody: Bright Moon (水调歌头·明月几时有) is a ci lyric by Su Shi, written at the 1076 Mid-Autumn Festival and considered its outstanding Chinese poem.
Prem Jogini
Prem Jogini (प्रेमजोगिनी), The yogini of love, is an incomplete Hindi nāṭikā by Bharatendu Harishchandra, serialized from 1874, and a precursor of realistic drama in Hindi.
Prem Pathik
Prem Pathik (प्रेम-पथिक) is a short narrative poem by Jaishankar Prasad, published in Braj Bhasha in 1909 and reworked into Khari Boli Hindi in 1913.
Prem Pinda
Prem Pinda (प्रेमपिण्ड, "Love Obsequies") is a Nepali-language prose tragedy by Bal Krishna Sama, first published in 2009 BS and set in a Rana-era palace in Kathmandu.
Premières poésies
Premières poésies, French for "first poems," is a conventional catalog title for a French poet's earliest poetry collection, best known from Alfred de Musset's 1852 volume.
Premio Bellas Artes de Narrativa Colima
The Premio Bellas Artes de Narrativa Colima is an annual Mexican literary prize for narrative fiction, awarded since 1980 by INBAL and the Universidad de Colima.
Premio Magón
The Premio Magón is Costa Rica's highest cultural award, given annually since 1962 to a Costa Rican writer, artist, scientist, or intellectual for a lifetime of cultural work.
Premio Nacional de Literatura de Bolivia
The Premio Nacional de Literatura de Bolivia is a set of Bolivian state and privately backed literary awards for unpublished works or writers' careers; several independent contests carry the name.
Premio Nacional de Literatura de Venezuela
The Premio Nacional de Literatura de Venezuela is Venezuela's national literature award, founded in 1940 and described as the highest literary distinction the state gives its writers.
Premio Nacional de Literatura del Perú
The Premio Nacional de Literatura del Perú is Peru's top state literary award, granted by the Ministry of Culture to Peruvian authors for published works since 2017.
Premio Nacional de Novela (Colombia)
The Premio Nacional de Novela is a Colombian literary prize awarded by the state through the Ministry of Culture to a novel published in Colombia.
Presents from My Aunts in Pakistan
"Presents from My Aunts in Pakistan" is an autobiographical free verse poem by the Pakistani-British poet Moniza Alvi about gifts from her aunts and a divided identity.
Pretty Little Liars (book series)
Pretty Little Liars book series by Sara Shepard: 16 young adult thriller novels (2006-2014) plus two companions, about Aria, Spencer, Hanna, and Emily blackmailed by 'A' in Rosewood after Alison's disappearance; basis of the ABC Family show.
Priapea
Priapea, also called Carmina Priapea or Corpus Priapeorum, is an anonymous collection of 80 obscene Latin epigrams devoted to the god Priapus, written between the Augustan period and CE 100.
Pride (comics)
The Pride (comics) is a Marvel supervillain team of six couples, twelve parents of the Runaways, debuting in Runaways #1 (July 2003) by Brian K. Vaughan and Adrian Alphona. They control Los Angeles crime and serve the Gibborim through soul sacrifices.
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's 1813 three-volume novel (originally First Impressions), published anonymously by Thomas Egerton; Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy's courtship, the Longbourn entail, free indirect discourse, and over 20 million copies sold.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is Seth Grahame-Smith's 2009 mash-up novel retaining about 85% of Austen's text amid a Regency zombie plague; it sold over 1.75 million copies, spawned Hockensmith sequels, and a 2016 Burr Steers film with Lily James.
Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren
The Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren, or Prize of Dutch Letters, is a triennial lifetime-achievement award of €60,000, considered the most important literary prize of the Dutch-language area.
Primeiras Estórias
Primeiras Estórias is a 1962 collection of 21 short stories by the Brazilian writer João Guimarães Rosa, containing his most anthologized story, "A terceira margem do rio".
Primeiros Cantos
Primeiros Cantos is the debut poetry book of Brazilian Romantic poet Antônio Gonçalves Dias, published in Rio de Janeiro in 1846 and containing "Canção do exílio".