Who is father of novel?

Legacy. Sir Walter Scott called Henry Fielding the “father of the English novel,” and the phrase still indicates Fielding's place in the history of literature.
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Who was the first novelist?

The Tale of Genji: The world's first novel? Written 1,000 years ago, the epic story of 11th-Century Japan, The Tale of Genji, was written by Murasaki Shikibu, a woman. Written 1,000 years ago, the Japanese epic The Tale of Genji is often called the world's first novel.
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Who is the grandfather of English novel?

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Memorable Points on Chaucer Geoffrey Chaucer was born in the feign of Edward III, lived through that of Richard II, and died the year after Henry IV took over the throne. He lived between 1340 and 1400.
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Who is the father of modern English novels?

William Shakespeare is considered by many to be the father of modern English Literature.
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Who discovered first novel?

'The Tale of Genji' is considered the first novel. It was written in the 11th-century by a woman who is called Murasaki Shikibu by scholars(In the story Murasaki marries Genji).
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Who is the first novel of India?

Rajmohan's Wife, published in 1864 by Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay (1838–94), is generally regarded as the first Indian novel in English, significant not only because its author was the greatest Bengali novelist of the nineteenth century but also because it speaks to an emergent genre in the literature of colonial ...
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Who wrote first book?

The world's first known author is widely considered to be Enheduanna, a woman who lived in the 23rd century BCE in ancient Mesopotamia (approximately 2285-2250 BCE).
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Who is father of prose?

William Tyndale's influence, not only on the early translations of the Bible into English, but also on the development of an Early English Modern prose has been significant enough to earn him the title of “The father of English Prose”.
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Who is the father of poetry?

'The Father of English Poetry' (Chapter 8) - Geoffrey Chaucer.
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Who is the father of drama?

Henrik Ibsen is famously known as the Father of Modern Drama, and it is worth recognizing how literal an assessment that is. The Norwegian playwright was not merely one of a wave of new writers to experiment with dramatic form, nor did he make small improvements that were built upon by successors.
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Which is the first English novel?

1726 Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels

Author Ian Watt, and many others for that matter, usually credit Daniel Defoe as being the author of the first English novel (Chapt. 3). The first novel is usually credited to be Defoe's Robinson Crusoe which was first published in 1719 (Lee).
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Who is the father of short story?

Maupassant is often described as the father of the modern short story—a literary form that's more condensed and immediate than the novel.
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Who is the father of Indian English novel?

Mulk Raj Anand : Father of Indian English Fiction 01 Edition (English, Hardcover, B. R. Agrawal)
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What is the first book?

The first ever books

The first book ever written that we know of is The Epic of Gilgamesh: a mythical retelling of an important political figure from history. In the 14th century, the Jikji was printed in Korea in movable (metal) type: a collection of Buddhist Zen teachings.
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Who is the first woman novelist?

Speaking of firsts, Puritan poet Anne Bradstreet became the first published female writer in the North American colonies when her book, The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, was printed and sold in England.
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Who is father of English essay?

Francis Bacon was a busy man of affairs. Known popularly as “The father of English Essays”, his essays have an evergreen freshness and an intellectual power.
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Who is the founder of English?

Who is known as the father of the English language? Geoffrey Chaucer. He was born in London sometime between 1340 and 1344. He was an English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat (courtier), and diplomat.
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Who is the first poet?

Enheduanna, the author of a number of hymns dedicated to the priestess Inanna, is a fascinating figure. She was a Sumerian high priestess who lived in the 23rd century BC, around 1,500 years before Homer. Enheduanna lived in the city of Ur (in modern-day Iraq), and was a priestess of the Sumerian moon god Nanna.
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Who wrote the first poem?

Other sources ascribe the earliest written poetry to the Epic of Gilgamesh written in cuneiform; however, it is most likely that The Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor predates Gilgamesh by half a millennium.
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Who is the first writer in India?

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (1838–1894) wrote Rajmohan's Wife and published it in 1864; it is the first Indian novel written in English.
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Who is Indian novelist?

Top 10 Novelists of India

The celebrated contemporary authors are Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai, and Aravind Adiga who won The Booker Prize. Chetan Bagat, and Jeet Thayyil are the new comers who became well known in a very short time. Top 10 Novelists of India is my favorite list of Indian novelists.
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Which is the first Hindi novel?

Rājendra śarmā contends Rahasyakathā upanyās (1879–1882) to be the first Hindi novel.
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