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:
“How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)