Portal:Literature/Did you know/Week 19
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... that Pumuckl (pictured) is a kobold from a German radio play series for children, and that he is invisible for the people around him except for the carpenter at whose place he lives?
... that We Need to Talk About Kevin is a 2003 novel by Lionel Shriver about a fictional school massacre?
... that Gunga Din, Helen of Troy, and The Man from Snowy River are just three of the films based on poems?
... that Kenneth Widmerpool is a fictional character in Anthony Powell's sequence of novels, A Dance to the Music of Time, and that he was portrayed by Simon Russell Beale?
... that A New Way to Pay Old Debts and The City Madam are early 17th century plays by Philip Massinger?
... that Radio Yerevan jokes have been very popular in the Soviet Union and in other Communist countries of the ex-Eastern bloc since the second half of the 20th century?
... that Nicholas Mosley, 3rd Baron Ravensdale (born 1923), the eldest son of British Fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley, is a novelist?
