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The history of literature begins with the history of writing, in the Bronze Age of Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt, although the oldest literary texts date to a full millennium after the invention of writing, to the late 3rd millennium BC. The earliest literary authors known by name are Ptahhotep and Enheduanna, dating to ca. the 24th and 23rd centuries BC, respectively. More about Literature...
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... that the Olivier, the Lyttelton, and the Cottesloe are the three stages housed by the Royal National Theatre (pictured) on London's South Bank?
... that the Dursleys live at 4 Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey, England?
... that Een lied van schijn en wezen is a 1981 novel by Cees Nooteboom about an author who creates his story around the sentence, "The colonel falls in love with the doctor's wife"?
... that μαιευτική τέχνη (maieutics), a method of teaching introduced by Socrates, is based on the idea that the truth is latent in the mind of every human being due to his innate reason but has to be "given birth" by questions asked by the teacher and answers given by the student?
... that Manderley is the house which plays a central part in Daphne du Maurier's novel, Rebecca (1938), and that as a result of the novel's popularity, the name "Manderley" became extremely popular as a name for ordinary houses, at one time being the most common house name in the United Kingdom?
... that Amongst Barbarians is a 1989 play by Michael Wall set in Penang, Malaysia, where two young Englishmen have been arrested for drug trafficking?
... that Ignatius J. Reilly is the protagonist of John Kennedy Toole's novel, A Confederacy of Dunces, written in the 1960s and published posthumously in 1980?
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A day in literature
- 1842 - Sidney Lanier, American writer born
- 1866 - François-Xavier Garneau, French Canadian poet died
- 1874 - Gertrude Stein, American writer born
- 1887 - Georg Trakl, Austrian poet born
- 1899 - Lao She, Chinese writer born
- 1899 - Indra Bahadur Rai, Nepali writer born
News
- 6 October, 2011 - Nobel prize in literature goes to Tomas Tranströmer.Guardian
- 6 September, 2011 - Shortlist for the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction is announced. themanbookerprize.com
- 19 April, 2011 - A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan wins the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.Guardian
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