EUROPEAN LITERATURE European literature includes written works in English, Spanish, French, Dutch,Polish, Portuguese, German, Italian, Modern

Greek, Czech and Russian and works by the Scandinavians and Irish. Important classical and medieval traditions are those in Latin, Ancient Greek, Old Bulgarian, Old Norse, Medieval French and the Italian Tuscan dialect of the renaissance. In colloquial speech, European literature often is used as a synonym for Western literature. European literature is a part of world literature.
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LATIN LITERATURE
Latin American literature consists of the oral and written literature of Latin America in several languages, particularly in Spanish, Portuguese, and indigenous languages of the Americas as well as literature of the United States written in the Spanish language. It rose to particular prominence globally during the second half of the 20th century.

African literature refers to literature of and from Africa. While the European perception of literature generally refers to written letters, the African concept includes oral literature (or "orature", in the term [1] coined by Ugandan scholar Pio Zirimu).

Oral literature (or orature) may be in prose or verse. The prose is often mythological or historical and can include tales of the trickster character. Storytellers in Africa sometimes use call-and-response techniques to tell their stories. Poetry, often sung, includes: narrative epic, occupational verse, ritual verse, praise poems to rulers and other prominent people. Praise singers, bards sometimes known as "griots", tell their stories with music.[3] Also recited, often sung, are love songs, work songs, children's songs, along with epigrams, proverbs and riddles Federico Garca Lorca
Federico Garca Lorca is possibly the most important Spanish poet and dramatist of the twentieth century. Garca Lorca was born June 5, 1898, in Fuente Vaqueros, a small town a few miles from Granada. His father owned a farm in the fertile vega surrounding Granada and a comfortable mansion in the heart of the city. His mother, whom Lorca idolized, was a gifted pianist. After graduating from secondary school Garca Lorca attended Sacred Heart University where he took up law along with regular coursework. His first book, Impresiones y Viajes (1919) was inspired by a trip to Castile with his art class in 1917. In 1919, Garca Lorca traveled to Madrid, where he remained for the next fifteen years. Giving up university, he devoted himself entirely to his art. He organized theatrical performances, read his poems in public, and collected old folksongs. During this period Garca Lorca wrote El Maleficio de la mariposa (1920), a play which caused a great scandal when it was produced.

Victor Hugo is, without doubt, the most famous figure ever to have lived in the Channel Islands. He is famous worldwide as both a literary and political celebrity and he has succeeded in the difficult task of being both intellectually respectable and at the same time immensely popular, especially through two of his major works, 'Notre Dame de Paris' and 'Les Misrables', which was completed in Guernsey. He was born in Besanon in 1802 and by the age of 13 had realised that he had a literary calling, his early poems winning a number of awards, including two "mentions" from the Academie Francaise. During the 1820s he became one of the leading figures of the French Romantic movement. In 1830 his position was enhanced by the success of the play 'Hernani' which was subject to fierce controversy, symbolising as it did the conflict between new Romantic ideas and classical French theatre. Indeed, the "battle" surrounding the play is now considered to be a major turning point in French literary history. Hugo's wish was to be buried in a pauper's coffin. While this wish was granted, he was nevertheless, on his death in 1885, voted a National Funeral by the two government assemblies. The coffin lay in state under the Arc de Triomphe and, on the 1st of June 1885, he was buried as a national hero in the Panthon. It is estimated that at least two million people followed the funeral procession.

Heinrich (Harry) Heine was born in Dsseldorf on December 13, 1797. His parents, the drapery merchant Samson Heine and his wife Betty, had four children. Heine attended the lyce in Dsseldorf but ended his schooling without a diploma. In 1814 he attended the merchant school and began an apprenticeship at a bank in Frankfurt in 1815. The next year Heine went to Hamburg to perform his voluntary service for his uncle Salomon. From 1819 to 1825 he studied law in Bonn, Gttingen and Berlin. In 1824 during his "Harzreise", his travels through the Harz Mountains, Heine met Goethe in Weimar. In 1825 Heine was baptized in the Protestant church, where his name was changed from Harry to Heinrich. He passed his law exams and worked on his doctorate at Hugo in Gttingen. In 1826 the first relationships to publishing houses began to form with Hoffman and Campe. Heine then traveled to Cuxhaven, Norderney and Lneburg, returning to Hamburg in 1827 before going to England. Heinrich Heine (born Harry Heine, changed to Christian Johann Heinrich Heine following his [1] conversion to Christianity from Judaism ) (13 December 1797 17 February 1856) was one of the most significant German poets of the 19th century. He was also a journalist, essayist, andliterary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of Lieder (art songs) by composerssuch as Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert. Heine's later verse and prose are distinguished by their satirical wit and irony. His radical political views led to many of his works being banned by German authorities. Heine spent the last 25 years of his life as an expatriate in Paris.

Heine was born in Dsseldorf, Rhineland, into a Jewish family. He was called "Harry" as a child, but became "Heinrich" after his conversion to Christianity in 1825.[2] Heine's father, Samson Heine (17641828), was a textile merchant. His mother Peira (known as "Betty"), ne van Geldern (17711859), was the daughter of a physician. Heinrich was the eldest of the four children; his siblings were Charlotte, Gustav - who later became Baron Heine-Geldern and publisher of the Viennese newspaper Das Fremdenblatt - and Maximilian, later a physician in Saint Petersburg.