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Prison literature

The Roman philosopher Boethius wrote The Consolation of Philosophy in 524 AD (image from a 1385 manuscript) while imprisoned.

Prison literature is the literary genre of works written by an author in unwilling confinement, such as a prison, jail or house arrest.[1] The writing can be about prison, informed by it, or simply incidentally written while in prison. It could be a memoir, nonfiction, or fiction.

  1. ^ Tony Perrottet. "Serving the Sentence", New York Times Book Review, July 24, 2011.

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أدب السجون Arabic Gefangenenliteratur German Literatura carcelaria Spanish زندان‌نامه FA Littérature carcérale French Zaporniška literatura SL

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