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  2. Di Bawah Lindungan Ka'bah (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Di Bawah Lindungan Ka'bah (Under the Protection of Ka'bah) is the 1938 debut novel of the Indonesian author Haji Abdul Malik Karim Amrullah (1908–1981). Written while the author worked in Medan as the editor of an Islamic weekly magazine, the novel follows the doomed romance of a young Minang couple from different social backgrounds.

  3. List of claimed first novels in English - Wikipedia

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    There are multiple candidates for first novel in English partly because of ignorance of earlier works, but largely because the term novel can be defined so as to exclude earlier candidates. (The article for novel contains detailed information on the history of the terms "novel" and "romance" and the bodies of texts they defined in a historical ...

  4. Belenggu - Wikipedia

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    [32] [38] Belenggu was the only novel published by the magazine [38] and the first Indonesian psychological novel. [1] In 1969, Belenggu received the first annual Literary Prize from the government of Indonesia, along with Marah Rusli 's Sitti Nurbaya (1922), Salah Asuhan , and Achdiat Karta Mihardja 's Atheis ( Atheist ; 1949).

  5. Budi Darma - Wikipedia

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    The novel was published by Balai Pustaka and went on to win several awards including the Jakarta Art Institute Literary award and the S.E.A. Write Award (Southeast Asian Write award). [6] " Olenka" has been reprinted several times, the most recent reprinting coincided with the Indonesian Book Festival in Senayan, Central Jakarta in 2009.

  6. Historical fiction - Wikipedia

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    Historical fiction is a literary genre in which a fictional plot takes place in the setting of particular real historical events.Although the term is commonly used as a synonym for historical fiction literature, it can also be applied to other types of narrative, including theatre, opera, cinema, and television, as well as video games and graphic novels.

  7. Malay Annals - Wikipedia

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    The Malay Annals is historical literature written in the form of narrative-prose with its main theme being lauding the greatness and superiority of Malacca. [32] The narration, while seemingly relating the story of the reign of the sultans of Malacca until the destruction of the sultanate by the Portuguese in 1511 and beyond, deals with a core issue of Malay statehood and historiography, the ...

  8. Netochka Nezvanova - Wikipedia

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    Netochka Nezvanova (Russian: Не́точка Незва́нова) is an unfinished novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky.It was originally intended as a large scale work in the form of a 'confession', but a background sketch of the eponymous heroine's childhood and adolescence is all that was completed and published.

  9. The Glass Palace - Wikipedia

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    The Glass Palace is a 2000 historical novel by Indian writer Amitav Ghosh.The novel is set in Burma, Bengal, India, and Malaya, spans a century from the Third Anglo-Burmese War and the consequent fall of the Konbaung Dynasty in Mandalay, through the Second World War to late 20th century.