Depictions in Fiction and Other Media
Anna Komnene plays a secondary role in Sir Walter Scott’s 1832 novel Count Robert of Paris. Fictional accounts of her life are given in the 1928 novel Anna Comnena by Naomi Mitchison, and the 1999 novel for young people Anna of Byzantium by Tracy Barrett. She appears prominently in the first volume of the trilogy The Crusaders by a Polish novelist Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, written in 1935. A novel written in 2008 by the Albanian writer Ben Blushi called "Living on an island" also mentions her. The novel Аз, Анна Комнина (I, Anna Comnena) was written by Vera Mutafchieva, a Bulgarian writer and historian. She is also a minor character in Nan Hawthorne's novel of the Crusade of 1101, Beloved Pilgrim (2011). Anna appears in Medieval 2: Total War video game campaigns as a Byzantine princess diplomat, under the name Anna Comnenus.
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