Portal:Literature/Did you know/15


 * ... that John Donne's Devotions upon Emergent Occasions is one of only seven printed works he acknowledged authorship of?
 * ... that Amir Hamzah left one of his fifty poems in his prison cell before being executed?
 * ... that the Hongwu Emperor was so fond of Gao Ming play The Lute that he ordered it to be performed every day at court?
 * ... that both the Star Trek novels The Tears of the Singers and Uhura's Song included Uhura as a main character as the authors thought she was underdeveloped in the show?
 * ... that author Colum McCann described the subject of his 2003 novel Dancer, Rudolf Nureyev, as "a monster"?