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Laberinto de Fortuna
Laberinto de Fortuna, also known as Las Trescientas, is an allegorical-narrative poem in Castilian completed in 1444 by Juan de Mena for King Juan II of Castile.
Labhshankar Thakar
Labhshankar Thakar (લાભશંકર ઠાકર) was a Gujarati poet, playwright, and Ayurvedic physician, a leading modernist who won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1991 and co-wrote the first absurd play in Gujarati.
Labor literature
Labor literature (Korean: 노동문학, nodong munhak) is literature about workers, workplaces, and labor movements, a distinct category in Korean literature that took shape in the 1970s and 1980s.
Labyrinths
Labyrinths is the first collected edition of the poetry of the Nigerian poet Christopher Okigbo, published by Heinemann in 1971, containing the sequence Path of Thunder.
Lace (novel)
Lace is Shirley Conran's 1982 debut novel, a defining 'bonkbuster' in which film star Lili asks four women, 'which one of you bitches is my mother?'; adapted as a 1984 ABC miniseries with Phoebe Cates.
Laços de Família
Laços de Família (Family Ties) is a collection of 13 short stories by the Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector, published in 1960 and awarded the Jabuti prize in 1961.
Lacustră
Lacustră is a 1903 poem by the Romanian symbolist poet George Bacovia, first published in Viața nouă and collected in his debut volume Plumb in 1916, its image of a dwelling on water symbolizing isolation.
Ladera este
Ladera este is a 1969 poetry collection by the Mexican writer Octavio Paz, composed between 1962 and 1968 during his service as Mexico's ambassador to India and closing with the long poem Blanco.
Ladin literature
Ladin literature is the body of writing in Ladin, a Rhaeto-Romance language spoken by about 30,000 people in five Dolomite valleys of northern Italy, beginning with 17th-century documents.
Ladino literature
Ladino literature is the writing of Sephardic Jews in Ladino (Judeo-Spanish), spanning sacred translations, rabbinic works, and secular genres from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
Ladislav Fuks
Ladislav Fuks (1923–1994) was a Czech prose writer best known for psychological fiction about fear, persecution, and the Holocaust, including Pan Theodor Mundstock and The Cremator.
Ladislav Nádaši-Jégé
Ladislav Nádaši-Jégé, born Ladislav Nádaši (1866–1940), was a Slovak physician and prose writer from Dolný Kubín, a leading exponent of Slovak naturalism whose works include Adam Šangala and Cesta životom.
Lady Anne
Lady Anne is a 1989 epic poem in Afrikaans by the South African poet Antjie Krog, her seventh volume, using the life of Lady Anne Barnard at the Cape.
Lady Audley's Secret
Lady Audley's Secret is an 1862 three-volume sensation novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon about a governess who bigamously marries the wealthy baronet Sir Michael Audley.
Lady Caroline Lamb
Lady Caroline Lamb (1785-1828), English aristocrat and novelist, wife of future Prime Minister Lord Melbourne; famous for her 1812 affair with Byron and her scandalous 1816 roman a clef Glenarvon.
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Lady Chatterley's Lover, D. H. Lawrence's final novel (Tenderness), privately printed in Florence 1928, banned until Grove 1959 and Penguin 1960, whose R v Penguin Books obscenity acquittal sold three million copies in three months.
Lady Colin Campbell
Lady Colin Campbell (Georgia Ariana Ziadie, b. 1949), Jamaican-born royal biographer and socialite; title from 1974 marriage to Lord Colin Campbell; wrote Diana in Private (1992) and Meghan and Harry: The Real Story (2020).
Lady Death
Lady Death is a supernatural antiheroine comic character created by Brian Pulido and Steven Hughes, first appearing in Evil Ernie #1 (December 1991), a defining 1990s bad girl title published by Chaos!, later CrossGen, Avatar/Boundless, and Coffin Comics.
Lady in the Lake (TV series)
Lady in the Lake is a 2024 American neo-noir mystery limited series for Apple TV+, adapted from Laura Lippman's 2019 novel and starring Natalie Portman and Moses Ingram.
Lady Ise
Lady Ise (伊勢), also known as Ise no go, was a Japanese waka poet of the Heian period, active from the 870s to about 938 and ranked with Ono no Komachi.
Lady Jessica
Lady Jessica Atreides is a fictional character in Frank Herbert's Dune (1965): a Bene Gesserit whose disobedience, bearing Paul instead of a daughter, drives the plot.
Lady Lazarus
"Lady Lazarus" is a confessional poem by Sylvia Plath, written in October 1962 and first published in her 1965 collection Ariel, about a woman rising from death.
Lady Macbeth
Lady Macbeth is Shakespeare's wife character in Macbeth (First Folio, 1623), who incites Duncan's murder via the 'unsex me here' speech and collapses into the 'Out, damned spot' sleepwalking scene; famous on stage for actresses from Siddons and Terry to Cotillard and, in Verdi's opera, Lise Davidsen.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762), English aristocrat, poet, and letter writer; author of the Turkish Embassy Letters and promoter who introduced smallpox variolation to Britain after observing it in Constantinople.
Lady Susan
Lady Susan is Jane Austen's short epistolary novella about the charming, manipulative widow Lady Susan Vernon, written around 1794-95, unpublished until 1871, and surviving as the only complete Austen fiction manuscript, in the Morgan Library.
Ladybird Books
Ladybird Books is a British children's publishing imprint, founded 1914 by Wills & Hepworth, now part of Penguin Random House. Known for its 56-page wartime hardback format, the Key Words with Peter and Jane reading scheme (about 95 million copies sold), and educational series such as Ladybird Readers.
Lafcadio Hearn
Lafcadio Hearn (Koizumi Yakumo, 小泉八雲), 1850–1904, Greek-born writer of Irish-Greek parentage who worked as a journalist in Cincinnati, New Orleans, and Martinique, then settled in Japan, naturalized in 1896, and wrote Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan and Kwaidan.
Lagar
Lagar is a 1954 poetry collection by the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral, her fourth book and the last published in her lifetime, and the only one first published in Chile.
Laghu katha
Laghu katha (लघु कथा), Hindi for short story, is a very short fiction genre in Hindi literature published mainly in newspapers and magazines since about 1970.
Lai He
Lai He (賴和, 1894–1943) was a Taiwanese physician, poet, novelist, and activist from Changhua, honored as the father of Taiwan new literature and a pioneer of Hoklo vernacular writing.