Asian literature
Asian literature is the literature produced in Asia.
Examples
- East Asian literature
- Cantonese literature
- Chinese literature
- Japanese literature
- Korean literature
- Okinawan literature
- Taiwanese literature
- Vietnamese literature
- Southeast Asian literature
- Burmese literature
- Cambodian literature
- Indonesian literature
- Laotian literature
- Malaysian literature
- Philippine literature
- Singaporean literature
- Thai literature
- South Asian literature
- Assamese literature
- Bangladeshi folk literature
- Bhutanese literature
- Gujarati literature
- Indian literature
- Kannada literature
- Malayalam literature
- Marathi literature
- Odia literature
- Pakistani literature
- Sri Lankan literature
- Tamil literature
- Telugu literature
- Tibetan literature
- Central Asian literature
- West Asian literature
Classical Chinese and Japanese literature
In Tang and Song dynasty China, famous poets such as Li Bai authored works of great importance. They wrote shī (Classical Chinese: 詩) poems, which have lines with equal numbers of characters, as well as cí (詞) poems with mixed line varieties. Early-Modern Japanese literature (17th–19th centuries) developed comparable innovations such as haiku, a form of Japanese poetry that evolved from the ancient hokku (Japanese language: 発句) mode. Haiku consists of three sections (all in a single vertical line in Japanese): the first and third segments each have five morae (which are not the phonological equivalent of syllables), while the second has seven. Original haiku masters included such figures as Edo period poet Matsuo Bashō (松尾芭蕉); others influenced by Bashō include Kobayashi Issa and Masaoka Shiki.
Classical Indian literature
Classical West Asian literature
Modern Asian literature
The polymath Rabindranath Tagore, a Bengali poet, dramatist, and writer who was an Indian, became in 1913 the first Asian Nobel laureate. He won his Nobel Prize in Literature for notable impact his prose works and poetic thought had on English, French, and other national literatures of Europe and the Americas. He also wrote the Indian anthem. Later, other Asian writers won Nobel Prizes in literature, including Yasunari Kawabata (Japan, 1966), and Kenzaburō Ōe (Japan, 1994). Yasunari Kawabata wrote novels and short stories distinguished by their elegant and spartan diction such as the novels Snow Country and The Master of Go.
See also
- The Literature section of the article Culture of Asia
- The categories Literature by continent, Chinese literature, Korean literature, Indian literature, and Japanese literature.
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