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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 ...
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.
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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.
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 ...
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For broader coverage of this topic, see Writing. A writing system comprises a set of symbols, called a script, as well as the rules by which the script represents a particular language. The earliest writing was invented during the late 4th millennium BC. Throughout history, each writing system invented without prior knowledge of writing gradually evolved from a system of proto-writing that ...
The book details a variety of writing tools and media, such as clay tablets used by the Sumerians, reed pen and papyrus of the ancient Egyptians, Roman writing awls, quill and parchment of those medieval Irish monks, as well as brush, fountain pen, stone, paper, printing press, etc. [4] It also discusses how these different writing methods and ...