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Caine Prize for African Writing
The Caine Prize for African Writing is an annual £10,000 award for a short story by an African writer published in English, first awarded in 2000.
Calafia
Calafia is the fictional Amazon queen of the island of California in Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo's chivalric romance Las Sergas de Esplandián (c. 1510); her golden island of warrior women is the likely source of the name California.
Call It Sleep
Call It Sleep is Henry Roth's 1934 debut novel, following young Jewish immigrant David Schearl in the slums of New York's Lower East Side; rediscovered in the 1960s, it became a bestseller.
Call Me by Your Name (novel)
Call Me by Your Name is André Aciman's 2007 debut novel about 17-year-old Elio's summer romance with the 24-year-old American scholar Oliver at an Italian villa; it won a 2008 Lambda Literary Award and inspired the 2017 Oscar-winning film.
Call to Arms
Call to Arms (Nahan, 呐喊) is Lu Xun's 1923 first short story collection, a founding work of modern Chinese vernacular fiction including "The True Story of Ah Q."
Calligrammes
Calligrammes is a 1918 poetry collection by Guillaume Apollinaire, written between 1913 and 1916, that named the calligram, a poem whose typographical layout draws a picture.
Calling Out to Yeti
Calling Out to Yeti (Wołanie do Yeti) is a 1957 poetry collection by the Polish poet Wisława Szymborska, her third book of verse and widely seen as her true debut.
Calling Sehmat
Calling Sehmat is Harinder Sikka's espionage novel about Sehmat, a Kashmiri woman who married into a Pakistani military family and spied for India during the 1971 war; adapted into the 2018 film Raazi.
Calon Arang
Calon Arang is a figure in Javanese and Balinese folklore, an 11th-century widow of Girah skilled in black magic, defeated by the sage Empu Baradah at King Airlangga's court.
Calormen
Calormen is the fictional empire south of Narnia in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia, capital Tashbaan, ruled by the Tisroc, worshiping Tash; main setting of The Horse and His Boy and a focus of orientalism criticism.
Camões Prize
The Camões Prize is an annual literary award for the body of work of a living author writing in Portuguese, established in 1988 by Portugal and Brazil.
Camp prose
Camp prose (Russian: лагерная проза, lagernaya proza) is Russian literary and documentary writing about Soviet forced-labor camps, written most often by former prisoners; classical authors include Solzhenitsyn and Shalamov.
Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill (とんでもスキルで異世界放浪メシ)
Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill (とんでもスキルで異世界放浪メシ) is a Japanese isekai light novel by Ren Eguchi, illustrated by Masa, about salaryman Mukoda whose Net Super skill and cooking win over the Fenrir Fel, slime Sui, and four goddesses; adapted into manga and a MAPPA anime (2023, season 2 in 2025).
Campiello Prize
The Campiello Prize (Premio Campiello) is an Italian literary prize for contemporary fiction, founded in 1962 by Veneto industrialists and organized by the Fondazione Il Campiello, awarded annually since 1963.
Campione! (カンピオーネ！)
Campione! is a Japanese light novel series by Jō Taketsuki about high schooler Godou Kusanagi, a god slayer who gains powers from killing a god.
Campo di Fiori
"Campo di Fiori" is a 1943 poem by the Polish poet Czesław Miłosz, juxtaposing Giordano Bruno's 1600 burning in Rome with the burning of the Warsaw Ghetto.
Campos de Castilla
Campos de Castilla (Fields of Castile) is a 1912 poetry collection by Antonio Machado that turns from intimate verse toward the Castilian landscape and Spain's regeneration.
Can You Forgive Her?
Can You Forgive Her? is a novel by Anthony Trollope, first published in monthly parts from 1864 to 1865 and the first of his six Palliser novels, following Alice Vavasor.
Çanakkale Destanı
Çanakkale Destanı, meaning "The Epic of Çanakkale," is a verse epic on the 1915 Gallipoli campaign by Turkish poet Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, published in İstanbul in 1965.
Canal Bank Walk
"Canal Bank Walk" is a 1955 sonnet by the Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh, written while he recovered from lung cancer surgery on the banks of Dublin's Grand Canal.
Canção do Exílio
Canção do Exílio ("Song of Exile") is a poem by Brazilian Romantic poet Antônio Gonçalves Dias, written in Coimbra in 1843 and published in 1846 in Primeiros Cantos.
Cancer Ward
Cancer Ward (Rakovy korpus) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, published in 1968 and set in the cancer ward of a hospital in Soviet Central Asia.
Canción de otoño en primavera
"Canción de otoño en primavera" ("Song of Autumn in Spring") is a poem by Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío, published in his 1905 collection Cantos de vida y esperanza.
Cancioneiro
A cancioneiro (Portuguese for "songbook") is a printed or manuscript book collecting songs, above all the medieval manuscripts preserving Galician-Portuguese troubadour lyric, and, by extension, recordings of those songs.
Cancioneiro da Ajuda
The Cancioneiro da Ajuda (Songbook of Ajuda) is a late 13th-century illuminated parchment manuscript kept in the Ajuda National Palace in Lisbon, the oldest surviving collection of Galician-Portuguese troubadour poetry.
Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional
The Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional, also called Cancioneiro Colocci-Brancuti, is the largest manuscript collection of secular Galician-Portuguese troubadour lyric, with about 1,560 cantigas by roughly 150 poets.
Cancioneiro Geral
The Cancioneiro Geral is an anthology of Portuguese court poetry compiled by Garcia de Resende and printed in Lisbon in 1516, gathering about one thousand poems.
Cancionero de Baena
The Cancionero de Baena is a Castilian poetry anthology compiled by Juan Alfonso de Baena around 1430 and dedicated to King Juan II of Castile.
Cancionero general
The Cancionero general is a Castilian poetry anthology compiled by Hernando del Castillo, first printed in Valencia in 1511 with over 1,000 poems by more than 200 poets.
Candide
Candide (Candide, ou l'Optimisme) is Voltaire's 1759 French satirical conte philosophique mocking Leibnizian optimism through the travels of Candide and Pangloss, ending with "cultivate our garden." Known for its Eldorado episode, Rousseau parallels, and Bernstein's 1956 operetta.