• Source: 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
Kazakh literature
Kyrgyz literature
Mongolian literature
Pashto literature
Tajik literature
Turkmen literature
Uzbek literature
Uyghur literature
West Asian literature
Persian literature
Arabic literature
Jewish literature
Turkish 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.
African literature
European literature
Oceanian literature
Latin American literature

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• Chairil Anwar
• Tan Twan Eng
• Kamadenu
• Orakel
• Ji Xianlin
• Oka Rusmini
• Atheis (novel)
• Pendekar Hina Kelana
• Sambal
• Yu Dafu
• Asian literature
• South Asian literature
• East Asian literature
• Asian American literature
• Asia House Festival of Asian Literature
• Cannibalism in literature
• Outline of literature
• Japanese literature
• Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature
• DSC Prize for South Asian Literature