The present work had its origin with a series of chapters on the literatures of Australia, New Zealand, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan South Africa, Brutality Canada, etc. Since there are many countries in the commonwealth it is not possible to include each country literature. Furthermore, since the rewash very little or virtually nonmaterial available in printed for mon the nascent literatures of the comparatively smaller commonwealth countries and we have taken only some of the prominent commonwealth countries in this book. The literature of a particular country has been given as a separate chapter. The important characteristics of the country, literature, prominent writers, the relives, their works and some general characteristics of their works have been given in this book, It is the writers that make the literature so it is very important to know about the writers as well and that, s why the life and profile of many writers of various countries have been given in this encyclopaedia,