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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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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 ...
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.
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 Nobel Prize in Literature (Swedish: Nobelpriset i litteratur) is awarded annually by the Swedish Academy to authors for outstanding contributions in the field of literature. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the 1895 will of Alfred Nobel , which are awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry , physics , literature ...
This is a list of writers' halls of fame. Institutions in at least five U.S. states have each created a program explicitly named as a "Hall of Fame" for writers, and there are at least two national-level programs focused on genres of writing also named as halls of fame. In addition, there are a number of annual awards for authors programs not ...