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The Prescribed List of Authors, also known as PLA, is a document published on the Online Curriculum Centre (OCC). It contains the names of authors (not the titles of works) in categories of genre. Teachers select texts written by these authors on this list for the required Part 3 and 4 reading. For Part 3, one text is selected from the PLA at HL (and none at SL). For Part 4, all texts must be selected from this list, meaning two texts for SL and three texts for HL. 

The definition of a 'work' according to the PLA is:

  • 1 single major work, such as a novel, autobiography or biography
  • 2 or more shorter texts such as novellas
  • 5-10 short stories 
  • 5-8 essays
  • 10-15 letters
  • A substantial section or the whole of a long poem (600 lines) or 15-20 shorter poems

Note: You will notice that the PLA is written for the Language A: Literature audience. There is a course overview and a list of requirements that pertain to the Literature course, not the Language and Literature course. Where it states that three genres, places and times must be represented in all of the works read, this must read two genres, places and times. This has been an oversight on the part of the IB.

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