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Sang Hyang Siksa Kandang Karesian
Sang Hyang Siksa Kandang Karesian, commonly abbreviated SSKK, is a didactic Old Sundanese prose manuscript dated 1518, giving rules and moral guidance for ordinary people in sixteenth-century Sunda.
Sang Sinxay
Sang Sinxay (ສັງສິນໄຊ, also rendered Sinxay, Sinsai, or Sang Sinchai) is a classical Lao epic poem attributed to Pang Kham and composed between the mid-sixteenth and late seventeenth centuries.
Sang thu
"Sang thu" ("Turning to autumn") is a 1977 twelve-line poem by the Vietnamese poet Hữu Thỉnh, describing the transition from summer to autumn in the Red River Delta countryside.
Sangam literature (சங்க இலக்கியம்)
Sangam literature (சங்க இலக்கியம்), also called the Cankam corpus, is the oldest surviving classical Tamil poetry: 2,381 poems by 473 poets in the Eight Anthologies and Ten Idylls, conventionally dated 300 BCE–300 CE, with disputed later dating.
Sangchun-gok
Sangchun-gok (상춘곡, "Song of Savoring Spring") is a Korean gasa attributed to early Joseon official Jeong Geuk-in and widely treated as the genre's earliest surviving work.
Sangkuriang
Sangkuriang is a Sundanese legend from West Java, Indonesia, telling how a son unwittingly courts his own mother and, cheated of his task, kicks a great boat upside down to become Mount Tangkuban Parahu.
Sangnoksu
Sangnoksu (상록수, "Evergreen Tree") is a rural enlightenment novel by the Korean writer Sim Hun, serialized in the Dong-A Ilbo in 127 installments from September 1935 to February 1936.
Sangshaptak
Sangshaptak (সংশপ্তক, "victory or death") is a Bengali epic novel by Shahidullah Kaiser, published in 1965, portraying East Bengal life from British rule to the Pakistan period.
Sanguo Zhi Pinghua
Sanguo Zhi Pinghua (三国志平话) is a Yuan-dynasty vernacular narrative of the Three Kingdoms, printed by the Yu family bookshop of Jian'an in 1321–1323 and the earliest surviving ancestor of the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Sanhwa
Sanhwa (산화) is a 1936 short story by Korean writer Yi Sang, better known as Nalgae ("Wings"), said to be Korea's first work of stream-of-consciousness fiction.
Sanjung singok
Sanjung singok (산중신곡, "New Songs in the Mountains") is a cycle of 18 sijo poems written in 1642 by the Joseon poet Yun Seondo while living in retirement at Haenam, Korea.
Sanjūrokkasen
Sanjūrokkasen (三十六歌仙, the Thirty-Six Poetry Immortals) is the name for 36 master waka poets selected by the mid-Heian nobleman Fujiwara no Kintō, including Ono no Komachi and Ki no Tsurayuki.
Sanjūrokunin Kashū
Sanjūrokunin Kashū (三十六人家集, also read Sanjūrokuninshū) is a late Heian anthology of the Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry; the oldest copy, at Nishi Hongan-ji in Kyoto, is a National Treasure.
Sankashū
Sankashū (山家集, "Collection of a Mountain Hermitage") is the most important personal waka anthology of the Japanese poet Saigyō, one of the medieval Six Poet Anthologies.
Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature
The Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature (Sanlamprys vir Jeuglektuur) is a biennial South African prize, sponsored by Sanlam since 1980, for unpublished youth novels in Afrikaans, English, and African languages.
Sans Famille
Sans Famille (English: Nobody's Boy) is an 1878 French novel by Hector Malot following the orphan Rémi, sold to a traveling performer, as he searches across France for his family.
Sansa Stark
Sansa Stark, eldest daughter of Eddard and Catelyn Stark in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO's Game of Thrones, played by Sophie Turner; POV character as Alayne Stone in the Eyrie, crowned Queen in the North in the show finale.
Sansaranyaye Dadayakkarayo
Sansaranyaye Dadayakkarayo (සංසාරාන්යායේ දඩයක්කාරයෝ) is a Sinhala novel by Simon Navagattegama in which a hunter in the wilderness symbolizes the human soul traveling through samsara, ranked among the best psychoanalytic Sinhala novels.
Sanshirō
Sanshirō (三四郎) is a 1908 novel by Natsume Sōseki, following a young man from Kumamoto who moves to Tokyo, and the first of Sōseki's early trilogy with Sorekara and Mon.
Sant Kavya
Sant Kavya (संत काव्य) is the knowledge-oriented branch of nirguna bhakti poetry in Hindi, written by poet-saints such as Kabir between the 14th and 17th centuries.
Santa Evita
Santa Evita is a 1995 novel by Argentine writer Tomás Eloy Martínez that follows the wanderings of Eva Perón's embalmed corpse after her death in 1952.
Sanxia Wuyi
Sanxia Wuyi (三侠五义, Three Heroes and Five Gallants) is an 1879 Chinese chivalric court-case novel attributed to storyteller Shi Yukun, centered on the Song dynasty magistrate Bao Zheng.
Sanyasi
Sanyasi is a play by Rabindranath Tagore, his own English rendering of the Bengali verse drama Prakritir Pratisodh, about an ascetic drawn back to the world.
Sapir Prize
The Sapir Prize, named for former finance minister Pinchas Sapir, is Israel's leading literary award for a Hebrew-language book, given annually by Mifal HaPais since 2000.
Saqt al-Zand
Saqt al-Zand (سقط الزند) is the diwan of the youthful poetry of the blind Arab poet Abu al-'Ala' al-Ma'arri (973–1057), gathering about three thousand verses of classical qasida poetry.
Sarah's Key
Sarah's Key (Elle s'appelait Sarah) is a 2010 French historical drama directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner, starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Mélusine Mayance, adapted from Tatiana de Rosnay's novel.
Sarala Mahabharata
The Sarala Mahabharata (ସାରଳା ମହାଭାରତ) is a 15th-century Odia retelling of the Sanskrit Mahabharata by Sarala Das, the first complete single-author rendition in any language other than Sanskrit.
Sarashina Kikō
Sarashina Kikō (更科紀行, Sarashina Travel Journal) is a short haibun travel record by Matsuo Bashō, written in 1688 about viewing the autumn full moon over Mt. Obasute in Shinano Province.
Sarasvatichandra
Sarasvatichandra (સરસ્વતીચંદ્ર) is a four-part Gujarati novel by Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi, published between 1887 and 1901; at about 1,800 pages, it is regarded as the monumental work of the Pandit era of Gujarati literature.
Saraswativijayam
Saraswativijayam (സരസ്വതീവിജയം, "The Victory of Saraswathi") is an 1892 Malayalam novel by Potheri Kunhambu following a Pulaya youth from caste oppression to education and a judgeship.