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| * [[Bill Willingham]] (born 1956), author of ''[[Fables (Vertigo)|Fables]]'' graphic novels. | * [[Bill Willingham]] (born 1956), author of ''[[Fables (Vertigo)|Fables]]'' graphic novels. | ||
| * Acrid Hermit (born 1962), author of ''http://www.createspace.com/3340070" Misty Forest Fables. ''isbn 9781605859309 | * Acrid Hermit (born 1962), author of ''http://www.createspace.com/3340070" Misty Forest Fables. ''isbn 9781605859309 | ||
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| + | * [[Allegory]] | ||
| + | * [[Anthropomorphism]] | ||
| + | * [[Apologue]] | ||
| + | * [[Apologia]] | ||
| + | * [[Fairy tale]] | ||
| + | * [[Fantastique]] | ||
| + | * [[Ghost story]] | ||
| + | * [[Parable]] | ||
| + | * [[Proverb]] | ||
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A fable is a brief, succinct story, in prose or verse, that features animals, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature which are anthropomorphized (given human qualities), and that illustrates a moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be expressed explicitly in a pithy maxim.
A fable differs from a parable in that the latter excludes animals, plants, inanimate objects, and forces of nature as actors that assume speech and other powers of mankind.
Classic fabulists
- Aesop (mid-6th century BCE), author of Aesop's Fables.
- Vishnu Sarma (ca. 200 BCE), author of the anthropomorphic political treatise and fable collection, the Panchatantra.
- Bidpai (ca. 200 BCE), author of Sanskrit (Hindu) and Pali (Buddhist) animal fables in verse and prose.
- Syntipas (ca. 100 BCE), Indian philosopher, reputed author of a collection of tales known in Europe as The Story of the Seven Wise Masters.
- Gaius Julius Hyginus (Hyginus, Latin author, native of Spain or Alexandria, ca. 64 BCE - 17 C.E.), author of Fabulae.
- Phaedrus (15 BCE – 50 CE), Roman fabulist, by birth a Macedonian.
- Walter of England c.1175
- Marie de France (12th century).
- Berechiah ha-Nakdan (Berechiah the Punctuator, or Grammarian, 13th century), author of Jewish fables adapted from Aesop's Fables.
- Robert Henryson (Scottish, 15th century), author of The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian.
- Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, 1452 – 1519).
- Biernat of Lublin (Polish, 1465? – after 1529).
- Jean de La Fontaine (French, 1621 – 95).
- John Gay (English) (1685 – 1732)
- Ignacy Krasicki (Polish, 1735 – 1801).
- Dositej Obradović (Serbian, 1742? – 1811).
- Félix María de Samaniego (Spanish, 1745 – 1801), best known for "The Ant and the Cicade."
- Tomás de Iriarte (Spanish, 1750 – 91).
- Ivan Krylov (Russian, 1769 – 1844).
Modern fabulists
- Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910).
- Nico Maniquis (1834 – 1912).
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 – ?1914).
- Sholem Aleichem (1859 – 1916).
- George Ade (1866 – 1944), Fables in Slang, etc.
- Don Marquis (1878 – 1937), author of the fables of archy and mehitabel.
- Franz Kafka (1883 – 1924).
- Damon Runyon (1884 – 1946).
- James Thurber (1894 – 1961), Fables For Our Time.
- George Orwell (1903 – 50).
- Dr. Seuss (1904 – 91)
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 – 91).
- José Saramago (born 1922).
- Italo Calvino (1923 – 85), "If on a winter's night a traveler," etc.
- Arnold Lobel (1933 – 87), author of Fables, winner 1981 Caldecott Medal.
- Ramsay Wood (born 1943), author of Kalila and Dimna: Fables of Friendship and Betrayal.
- Bill Willingham (born 1956), author of Fables graphic novels.
- Acrid Hermit (born 1962), author of http://www.createspace.com/3340070" Misty Forest Fables. isbn 9781605859309
See also
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