Occitan literature — still sometimes called Provençal literature — is a body of texts written in Occitan in the south of France. It originated in the poetry of the 11th- and 12th-century troubadours, and inspired the rise of vernacular literature throughout medieval Europe.
Read more about Occitan Literature: Introduction, Origin, Poetry of The Troubadours, Patronage, Form, Narrative Poetry, Didactic and Religious Poetry, Drama, Félibrige, Late Twentieth and Twenty-first Century
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“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)