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Scholars have disagreed concerning when written record-keeping became more like literature, but the oldest surviving literary texts date from a full millennium after the invention of writing. The earliest literary author known by name is Enheduanna, who is credited as the author of a number of works of Sumerian literature, including Exaltation ...
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A History of Japanese Literature: From the Man'yōshū to Modern Times. Translated by Sanderson, Don (New Abridged ed.). Japan Library. ISBN 1-873410-48-4. Lane, Richard J. (2011). The Routledge Concise History of Canadian Literature. Routledge. Lee, Peter H. (2003). A History of Korean Literature. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781139440868.
Marcus Tullius Tiro - Roman secretary, ascribed invention of Tironian notes shorthand c. 63 BC, according to tradition. J. R. R. Tolkien - British author, invented the Tengwar, Cirth and Sarati c. 1930. Dhaniram Toto - Indian social worker, author, and Toto community elder; invented an alphabetic script for the Toto language, published in 2015.
List of ancient Greek writers; List of pseudonyms of angling authors; Appendix N; List of Arabic short story writers; List of writers influenced by Aristotle; List of art critics; List of Asian crime fiction writers; List of Assamese writers with their pen names; List of atheist authors; List of authors published as UK first editions by Collins ...
This list includes notable authors, poets, playwrights, philosophers, artists, scientists and other important and noteworthy contributors to literature. Literature (from Latin litterae (plural); letters) is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word literature means "acquaintance with letters" (as in the "arts and letters").
This is a partial list of 20th-century writers. This list includes notable artists, authors, philosophers, playwrights, poets, scientists and other important and noteworthy contributors to literature. The two most basic written literary categories include fiction and non fiction
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