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Murray Leinster
Murray Leinster, born William Fitzgerald Jenkins, was a prolific American science fiction writer who produced nearly 1,800 stories and patented a projection process used in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Murtagh (novel)
Murtagh is a 2023 epic fantasy novel by Christopher Paolini, set in the World of Eragon one year after Inheritance, following Eragon's half brother Murtagh and his dragon Thorn.
Murzilka
Murzilka (Мурзилка) is a Russian monthly literary magazine published since 16 May 1924. It is the world's longest-running children's magazine, named after a forest man.
Musaddas
Musaddas is a stanzaic form of Urdu and Persian poetry in which each stanza has six lines, rhymed AAAABB, used for long narrative and elegiac poems.
Musaddas-e-Hali
Musaddas-e-Hali (مسدسِ حالی), fully Musaddas-e Madd-o Jazr-e Islām, is an Urdu poem by Khwaja Altaf Husain Hali, published in 1879, that recalls Islam's glorious past and mourns its decline in India.
Musaemura Zimunya
Musaemura Bonas Zimunya, born 1949 in Mutare, is a Zimbabwean poet and literary scholar writing in English and Shona whose work contrasts the rural Eastern Highlands with the city.
Musaget
Musaget (Мусагет) was a Moscow publishing house of the Russian Symbolists, founded in 1909 by Emil Medtner, Andrei Bely, and Ellis and active until 1917, issuing 44 books of Symbolist poetry and criticism.
Musammat
Musammat (مسمّط), meaning "string of pearls," is a collective name in Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Turkish poetry for stanzaic forms whose stanzas hold three to ten lines in one meter.
Müseddes
Müseddes is a stanzaic verse form of Ottoman Divan poetry in which each stanza has six lines in the same meter, often treating Sufi themes.
Musée des Beaux Arts
"Musée des Beaux Arts" is a 21-line free-verse poem by W. H. Auden, written in Brussels in December 1938 and published in 1940 in Another Time.
Musenalmanach
A Musenalmanach was a German-language annual anthology of short poems in pocket format, flourishing from 1770 to about 1848 and inviting readers to submit their own verses.
Muser sforim
Muser sforim (מוסר ספרים), from Hebrew sifrei musar meaning books of morality, are Yiddish moral and ethical books for lay readers, especially women, in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries.
Mush wa Gurba
Mush wa Gurba (موش و گربه, Qiṣṣah-i Mūsh va Gurbah), also known as Mūshnāmah, is a Persian mock-epic satire about a tyrannical cat tormenting virtuous mice.
Mushaira
Mushaira (مشاعرہ) is an Urdu poetic symposium, also called mehfil or bazm, where poets recite their verses before an audience that responds with calls of appreciation.
Mushanokōji Saneatsu
Mushanokōji Saneatsu (武者小路実篤, 1885–1976) was a Japanese novelist, playwright, and painter who led the Shirakaba school and founded the utopian New Village community in 1918.
Mushoku Tensei
Mushoku Tensei (無職転生, Jobless Reincarnation) is Rifujin na Magonote's isekai web novel on Shōsetsuka ni Narō (2012–2015), a 26-volume MF Books light novel about Rudeus Greyrat, with manga and a two-season Studio Bind anime and 14.85 million copies in circulation.
Mushtaq Ahmed Yousufi
Mushtaq Ahmed Yousufi (مشتاق احمد یوسفی; 1923–2018) was a Pakistani Urdu humorist and satirist whose five books made him a leading Urdu humorist of his era.
Musibat-nama
Musibat-nama (مصیبتنامه, "Book of Affliction") is a Persian mystical mathnawi by the Sufi poet Farid al-Din Attar of Nishapur, in which a wayfarer seeks relief through forty encounters, and it is Attar's longest poem.
Muskism (book)
Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed (original title Muskism. The Meaning and Making of a Technoking) is a 2026 book by Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff analyzing Muskism as a Fordism-like political economy, published by Harper and Allen Lane.
Muslim ibn al-Walid
Muslim ibn al-Walid (مسلم بن الوليد) was an Arab poet of the early Abbasid period, credited as the first to make badīʿ, rhetorical embellishment, a deliberate poetic program.
Muslim Sahitya Samaj
Muslim Sahitya Samaj (মুসলিম সাহিত্য সমাজ), a Bengali Muslim literary society, was founded in Dhaka in 1926 and led the buddhir mukti rationalist movement through its journal Shikha.
Muspilli
Muspilli is a fragmentary Old High German poem on the end of the world and the Last Judgement, surviving as 103 verses written in a ninth-century Munich manuscript.
Mustafa Kutlu
Mustafa Kutlu (born 1947) is a Turkish storyteller, essayist, and columnist, a prominent figure of the Turkish short story whose work draws on Sufi themes.
Mustansar Hussain Tarar
Mustansar Hussain Tarar (مستنصر حسین تارڑ), born in Lahore in 1939, is a Pakistani Urdu writer best known for travelogues like Niklay Teri Talash Mein and the novel Bahao.
Mustazad
Mustazad (مستزاد) is a Persian and Urdu poetic form in which a short rhyming phrase is appended after each hemistich or couplet of an otherwise ordinary poem.
Müstezat
Müstezat (Müstezâd, مستزاد), meaning "augmented", is an Ottoman Divan verse form where each long line is followed by a short added line called a ziyâde.
Mutalayiram
Mutalayiram (முதலாயிரம், "the First Thousand") is the first of the four divisions of the Nalayira Divya Prabandham, the Tamil hymns of the twelve Azhvars, spanning pasurams 1 to 947.
Muthassi
Muthassi (മുത്തശ്ശി), Malayalam for grandmother, is a poetry collection by Balamani Amma, one of Malayalam's most honored women poets, earning her Sahitya Akademi recognition in the 1960s.
Muthuchippi
Muthuchippi (മുത്തുച്ചിപ്പി, "Pearl Oyster") is a 1961 poetry collection, the first by the Malayalam poet Sugathakumari, published by Mathrubhumi Publications, Kozhikode, with a preface by Balamani Amma.
Mutsuo Takahashi
Mutsuo Takahashi (高橋睦郎, born 15 December 1937) is a Japanese poet of free verse, haiku, and tanka known for openly homoerotic early poems; he received the Order of Culture in 2024.