This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in the 11th century. Events c. 1000–1025 – The only surviving manuscript of Beowulf is written. 1007 – The Book of Kells is probably stolen from the Abbey of Kells in Ireland for several months. 1016 – The Icelandic skald Bersi Skáldtorfuson is captured at the naval Battle of Nesjar and imprisoned. c. 1022 – Nannayya, Aadi Kavi ("the first poet"), begins work on Andhra Mahabharatam, a translation of the Mahabharata into Telugu and the first work of Telugu literature. 1029 – Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni orders the library of Rey in Persia to be burned and all books to be deemed as heretical. 1070 The Temple of Literature, Hanoi, is founded in the Vietnamese capital. King Bleddyn ap Cynfyn enacts new laws regulating the activities of Welsh bards and musicians. 1080–1086 – The Chinese poet and polymath Su Shi is sent into internal exile for political reasons. During this period he writes the first and second Chibifu ( "The Red Cliffs"). 1086 – Poet-ruler of Al-Andalus, Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad, kills his fellow-poet, former lover and vizier Muhammad ibn Ammar. New works 1000 Al-Tasrif (كتاب التصريف لمن عجز عن التأليف The Method of Medicine), by Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (Abulcasis) The Remaining Signs of Past Centuries (کتاب الآثار الباقية عن القرون الخالية Kitāb al-āthār al-bāqiyah `an al-qurūn al-khāliyah), by Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī c. 1000 – The Battle of Maldon (Old English) c. 1008–10 – The Diary of Lady Murasaki (紫式部日記 Murasaki Shikibu Nikki), by Murasaki Shikibu (in kana script) 1010: March 8 (completed) – Shahnameh by Ferdowsi 1011 – Manual (Enchiridion) by Byrhtferth of Ramsey Abbey 1012–18 – Chronicon Thietmari by Thietmar of Merseburg By 1018 – Confessio Theologica by John of Fécamp 1019 – Legenda Sancti Goeznovii by 'William' By 1021 – The Tale of Genji (源氏物語 Genji monogatari), by Murasaki Shikibu 1021 – Book of Optics by Alhazen 1025 – The Canon of Medicine by Avicenna 1027 – The Book of Healing by Avicenna 1026–46 – Historiarum libri quinque ab anno incarnationis DCCCC usque ad annum MXLIV (History in five books from AD 900–1044) by Rodulfus Glaber c. 1040–44 – Wujing Zongyao (武經總要, "Collection of the Most Important Military Techniques") by Zeng Gongliang, Ding Du, Yang Weide and others c. 1040–53 – Mukhtar al-hikam wa mahasin al-kalim (Choice Maxims and Finest Sayings), by al-Mubashshir ibn Fatiq 1041–42 – Encomium