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literature

[lit-er-uh-cher, -choor, li-truh-] / ˈlɪt ər ə tʃər, -ˌtʃʊər, ˈlɪ trə- /


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Jolly said she was delighted to win the prize which she said made the case for historical fiction as a "really serious type of literature".

From BBC • Jun. 12, 2026

A senior at Yale University, Tina studies English literature and writes poetry in the creative writing concentration.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Based in Brooklyn, Delgado Lopera says he’s just finished teaching for the year as an assistant professor of creative writing and contemporary Latine literature at the City University of New York.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

Between March and October 2023, Mikheil Z. went to the BnF 40 times to request access to manuscripts, mainly by Pushkin, claiming he was doing research on democracy in 19th-century Russian literature.

From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026

Instead of the densely wooded wilderness Europeans depicted in literature and art, the real American landscape included cornfields, berry patches, and groves of nut trees that contributed to the food supply.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz




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