Iranian literature is a term that has been used mainly in reference to Persian literature, but the term has other meanings as well:
- Literature in any other Iranian language (both extinct and present), such as the Avesta, or those written in:
- extinct: Old Persian, Middle Persian, Sogdian, Khwarezmian, Parthian, Saka, Old Azari
- modern: Kurdish, Gorani, Zazaki, Pashto, Balochi, and others.
- Literature in languages of modern Iran, including Persian, Kurdish, Azerbaijani Turkish, Balochi, Talyshi, Armenian, Arabic, and other languages spoken in Iran.
Famous quotes containing the word literature:
“Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is a narration, an axis of innumerable narrations. One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)