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Surname-i Vehbi
Surname-i Vehbi (Sûrnâme-i Vehbî) is an illustrated Ottoman festival book by poet Seyyid Vehbî recording the 1720 imperial circumcision festival held in Istanbul for Sultan Ahmed III's sons.
Sursagar
Sursagar (सूरसागर, "Sur's Ocean") is the principal collection of Krishna-devotion poetry attributed to the sixteenth-century Braj poet Surdas, retelling Krishna's life from birth to the reunion at Kurukshetra, and the only work universally accepted as his.
Surya Dighal Bari
Surya Dighal Bari (সূর্য-দীঘল বাড়ী, "The Ominous House") is a Bengali novel by Abu Ishaque, published in 1955, centered on a rural woman's survival struggle around the 1943 Bengal famine.
Susan Pevensie
Susan Pevensie, also known as Queen Susan the Gentle, is a fictional character in C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, the second eldest of the four Pevensie children.
Suspiria de Profundis
Suspiria de Profundis ("Sighs from the Depths") is a collection of visionary prose pieces by Thomas De Quincey, published in 1845 as a sequel to Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.
Suspiros Poéticos e Saudades
Suspiros Poéticos e Saudades is an 1836 book of poems by Domingos José Gonçalves de Magalhães, traditionally treated as the starting landmark of Brazilian Romanticism.
Sutralankara
The Sūtrālaṅkāra (सूत्रालङ्कार) is a Sanskrit Buddhist collection of ninety moral tales, generally attributed to Aśvaghoṣa and translated into Chinese in the early fifth century.
Svapnavasavadatta
Svapnavasavadatta (स्वप्नवासवदत्तम्, "the dream of Vasavadatta"), also called Svapnanatakam, is a Sanskrit drama attributed to Bhasa about King Udayana, Vasavadatta, and Padmavati, published in 1912 among the thirteen Trivandrum plays.
Svatopluk
Svatopluk is a heroic epic poem by the Slovak poet Ján Hollý, published in 1833 and regarded as the first Slovak national epic about King Svatopluk of Great Moravia.
Svetlana
Svetlana (Светлана) is a romantic ballad by the Russian poet Vasily Zhukovsky, published in 1813 in Vestnik Evropy, which reworks Bürger's Lenore into a Russian setting and ends happily.
Swahili drama
Swahili drama, known in Kiswahili as tamthiliya, is the genre of Swahili-language plays, written for stage performance or reading, with written plays appearing in Tanzania and Kenya from the 1950s.
Swahili Islamic epics
Swahili Islamic epics, known as tenzi or utenzi, are long narrative poems on Islamic subjects composed on the East African coast from the seventeenth century.
Swahili novel
The Swahili novel (riwaya) is extended fictional prose in the Swahili language, a form adopted from Western literature that flourished after the 1950s, especially in Tanzania and Kenya.
Swahili poetry slam
A Swahili poetry slam is a competitive spoken-word event held in East Africa, where poets perform in Swahili, English, or Sheng before judges and audiences who score them in real time.
Swahili romance novel
The Swahili romance novel, in Kiswahili riwaya za mahaba, is a love story written in Kiswahili and a basic genre of East African popular fiction.
Swallows and Amazons
Swallows and Amazons is Arthur Ransome's 1930 children's adventure novel about the Walker and Blackett children sailing and camping on Wild Cat Island in the Lake District; the first of twelve books published 1930-1947, based on the Altounyan children.
Swami
Swami (स्वामी) is a Marathi historical novel by Ranjit Desai, first published in 1962, portraying Madhavrao Peshwa I, the fourth Peshwa of the Maratha Empire, and his wife Ramabai.
Swami and Friends
Swami and Friends is R.K. Narayan's 1935 first novel, published by Hamish Hamilton with Graham Greene's help, set in fictional Malgudi circa 1930, following schoolboy Swaminathan, Mani, and Rajam under British colonial rule.
Swan Song (memoir)
Swan Song: Diana, My Sister is Charles Spencer's 2026 memoir of his sister Diana, Princess of Wales, published by Penguin; a #1 NYT bestseller alleging King Charles said 'we'll forget her soon enough' after her 1997 death.
Swarna Pusthaka Award
The Swarna Pusthaka Award (Golden Book Award) is a Sri Lankan literary prize for the best Sinhala novel of the year, awarded annually since 2007.
Swashbuckler
Swashbuckler: from a 1550s English insult for a swaggering swordsman (swash plus buckler) to a genre of sword-fighting adventure fiction, film, and television blending historical fiction, romance, and daring heroics.
Swazi praise poetry
Swazi praise poetry, known in siSwati as tibongo, is the oral panegyric tradition of the Swazi people of Eswatini and southern Africa, with clan praises called tinanatelo.
Sweet Bean Paste (あん) (novel)
Sweet Bean Paste (あん, An) is Durian Sukegawa's 2013 Poplar-sha novel about Sentaro, a dorayaki maker, and Tokue, a woman confined by Japan's leprosy laws; adapted by Naomi Kawase for Cannes 2015 and translated into 24 languages.
Sweet Home (스위트홈) (webtoon)
Sweet Home (스위트홈) is a Korean horror webtoon by Kim Carnby and Hwang Young-chan, serialized on Naver Webtoon 2017–2020 in 141 episodes, about desire-driven monsterization at Green Home; adapted into a Netflix series and prequel Shotgun Boy.
Sweet Tooth (Vertigo)
Sweet Tooth is a Vertigo (DC Comics) post-apocalyptic comic series, 40 issues from 2009 to 2013, written and drawn by Jeff Lemire, about the hybrid boy Gus, later a three-season Netflix series.
Sweet Valley High
Sweet Valley High is a young adult book series created by Francine Pascal in 1983 about identical twins Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield at a California high school, ghostwritten from her outlines, selling over 200 million copies and spawning spin-offs and a 1990s TV series.
Sweetbitter
Sweetbitter is the 2016 debut novel of American writer Stephanie Danler, following Tess, a young woman working as a backwaiter at an upscale Manhattan restaurant; it became a national bestseller.
Sword and sorcery
Sword and sorcery (S&S), a fantasy subgenre of violent small-scale adventures from Robert E. Howard's Conan to Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser; term coined by Leiber in 1961, born in Weird Tales pulps, distinguished from high fantasy by personal stakes and villain-wielded magic.
Sword Art Online (ソードアート・オンライン)
Sword Art Online (ソードアート・オンライン, SAO) is a Japanese light novel series by Reki Kawahara, illustrated by abec, about players trapped in a lethal VRMMORPG; began Dengeki Bunko April 2009, over 30 million copies, major anime and game franchise.
Sword of Destiny
Sword of Destiny (Miecz przeznaczenia) is Andrzej Sapkowski's Polish short story collection, second Witcher book in story chronology, introducing Ciri; English translation by David French appeared 2015 via Gollancz.