novel

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In 2016, the company gave the premiere of Bright Sheng’s “Dream of the Red Chamber,” which is, like “Monkey,” based on a classic Chinese novel and has a libretto by Hwang.

From Los Angeles Times

I’d recently started writing my novel, “King of the Armadillos,” inspired by his experience, and he was helping me access material from the archives of the National Hansen’s Disease Museum.

From Salon

Stamirowska said the name of Pathway’s architecture is inspired by the dragons in Terry Pratchett’s novel “Color of Magic,” which appear more frequently as the characters think about them.

From The Wall Street Journal

This was novel and voluntary – such a thing had never happened before.

From BBC

Reports say major plot points were similar to a novel that was published in 1973, and the show’s French production company is investigating.

From MarketWatch