• in 1687 Philippe Couplet published Confucius Sinarum Philosophus (pictured), the first known Western translation of a Chinese literary work?

Facts on topics related to Literary

Literary genre

• Grunge Lit is an Australian literary genre which features gritty depictions of urban and suburban life revolving around a nihilistic pursuit of sex, drugs and alcohol?
• invasion literature, such as The War of the Worlds, was a literary genre influential in foreign politics during the years leading up to World War I?
• the literary genre known as Bangsian fantasy sets its action wholly or partially in Hell?
• writers in the literary genre known as fantastique include Stephen King and Honoré de Balzac?

English literature

• English writer Anne Brontë is buried in Scarborough, and not in Haworth with all her family?
• the first fire-breathing dragon in English literature occurs in the Old English epic poem Beowulf?

Literature

• "many-sided" priest Father Patrick McLaughlin (pictured) promoted links between the Church and the world of literature by staging plays, and by commissioning lectures from T. S. Eliot and Dorothy L. Sayers?
• Danish botanist Christen C. Raunkiær made quantitative studies of plants in literature?
• Sinop Fortress Prison in Turkey, abandoned in 1997, hosts hundreds of thousands tourists yearly thanks to its featuring in popular literature, music and film?
• before Nielsen BookScan began tracking point of sale data at bookstores, nobody knew how many copies were being sold of literary works that were published by multiple publishers and had entered the public domain?
• the names of broad gauge railway locomotives were drawn from areas such as Greek, Roman and other mythologies, famous people, literature, flora, fauna, towns, geographical features, speed and power?