For the convenience of readers (as well as publishers and booksellers), there are various classifications of books that allow you to sort them and put them on suitable shelves in bookstores.
All books are divided into publications for adults and children, fiction and non-fiction (hudlite and non-fiction, respectively). And those, in turn, are divided into genres and categories.
Why does an author need to understand genres?
Then, to:
- to learn skills in your own genre;
- know exactly which publisher to offer the manuscript to;
- study your target audience and offer the book not to “everyone at all,” but to those people who may be interested in it.
What is fiction?
Fiction refers to all works that have a fictional plot and fictional characters: novels, stories, stories and plays.
Memoirs belong to non-fiction literature, because they are about non-fictional events, but they are written according to the canons of fiction – with a plot, heroes, etc.
But poetry, including lyrics, is fiction, even if the author recalls a past love that actually happened.