Works Of Literature Penned During Covid.

[sandyRoe]

Shakespeare is said to have penned some sonnets during the time theatres were closed because of the plague.  

The Decamerón featured plague in Italy.

Did Covid give writers the space to pen something that will stand the test of time?

[maggiebee]

Probably not a work of literature in the true sense, but my daughter kept a daily diary.  She actually worked all through lockdown and put down thoughts, conversations etc.

[sandyRoe]

I'm sure that will be of interest to future historians.

[pastafreak]

There is Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year...though it was not written until years later. He was a child in 1685. I guess it's actually a work of historical fiction...though he's said to have researched it.

[Buenchico]

The Decameron Project comes to mind here:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/07/magazine/decameron-project-short-story-collection.html

[davebro3]

Isn't there a book - "Love in a time of cholera" or summat?

I've not read it, might catch something.

[rowanwitch]

Again no claim to literary merit but I challenged myself to write and post ( on facebook) a poem every day of lockdown... Some days it was a struggle some days I could have written two or three, did the second lockdown as well