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diary is a record (originally in handwritten format) with discrete entries arranged by

date reporting on what has happened over the course of a day or other period. Diaries
undertaken for institutional purposes play a role in many aspects of human civilization,
including government records (e.g., Hansard), business ledgers and military records.

A diary is not a book, only a sequence of entries or journals of a person's thoughts or

feelings.

Generally the term is today employed for personal diaries, in which the writer may detail
more personal information and normally intended to remain private or to have a limited
circulation amongst friends or relatives. The writer may also describe recent events in
his/her personal diary. The word "journal" may be sometimes used for "diary," but
generally one writes daily in a diary, whereas journal-writing can be less frequent.

Whilst a diary may provide information for a memoir, autobiography or biography, it is

generally written not with the intention of being published as it stands, but for the
author's own use. In recent years, however, there is internal evidence in some diaries
(e.g., those of Ned Rorem, Alan Clark, Tony Benn or Simon Gray) that they are written
with eventual publication in mind, with the intention of self-vindication (pre- or
posthumous) or simply for profit.

Diaries are highly varied, from business notations, to listings of weather and daily
personal events, to inner explorations of the human psyche, to expressions of one's
deepest self, to records of thoughts and ideas.

By extension the term diary is also used to mean a printed publication of a written diary;
and may also refer to other terms of journal including electronic formats (e.g., blogs).

Someone who keeps a diary is known as a diarist.

Famous diarists

 Gustav Badin
 Choe Bu

 Zlata Filipović

 Wasif Jawhariyyeh
 Samuel Jeake
 Stanislaus Joyce

 Franz Kafka
 Zelig Kalmanovich
 Søren Kierkegaard
 Krishnamurti to Himself
 Krishnamurti's Journal

 Luca Landucci

 Petter Moen

 Nicholas Peacock

 Vaslav Nijinsky

 Elizabeth Porter Phelps

 Thomas Platter the Younger

 Alexis von Rosenberg, Baron de Redé

 Yitskhok Rudashevski

 Efim Shifrin

María Elena Walsh

 Sally Wister

Types of diaries
Travel journals

A travel journal, travel diary, or road journal, is the documentation of a journey or

series of journeys. Diet journal

A diet journal or food diary is a daily record of all food and beverage consumed, usually
for the purpose of the tracking calorie consumption for the purpose of weight loss or
other nutritional monitoring.

Sleep diaries

A sleep diary or sleep log is a tool used in the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders.

Tagebuch

The German Tagebuch is normally rendered as diary in English, but the term includes
workbooks or working journals as well as diaries proper. For example, the notebooks of
the Austrian writer Robert Musil are called Tagebücher.

Unusual diaries

Some officer cadets at the Royal Military College of Canada wrote their diaries in India
ink on their t-squares; examples of these from the 1880s are retained in the College's
museum.

War diary

A war diary is a regularly updated official record of a military unit's administration and
activities during wartime maintained by an officer in the unit.

Fictional diaries
Main category: Fictional diaries.

There are numerous examples of fictional diaries. One of the earliest printed fictional
diaries was the humorous Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith and his brother
Weedon. 20th century examples include radio broadcasts (e.g. Mrs. Dale's Diary) and
published books (e.g. the Diaries of Adrian Mole). Both prompted long-running satirical
features in the magazine Private Eye: the former entitled Mrs Wilson's Diary in reference
to Mary Wilson, wife of Prime Minister Harold Wilson, the latter entitled "The Secret
Diary of John Major Aged 47¾" and written as a pastiche of the Adrian Mole diaries
from the perspective of the then Prime Minister John Major.

The most famous diarist ever

Anne Frank

Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank 12 June 1929 in Frankfurt am Main – early March 1945
in Bergen Belsen) is one of the most renowned and most discussed Jewish victims of the
Holocaust. Acknowledged for the quality of her writing, her diary has become one of the
world's most widely read books, and has been the basis for several plays and films.

Born in the city of Frankfurt am Main in Weimar Germany, she lived most of her life in
or near Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. By nationality, she was officially considered a
German until 1941, when she lost her nationality owing to the anti-Semitic policies of
Nazi Germany (the Nuremberg Laws). She gained international fame posthumously
following the publication of her diary, which documents her experiences hiding during
the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II.

The Frank family moved from Germany to Amsterdam in 1933, the year the Nazis gained
control over Germany. By the beginning of 1940, they were trapped in Amsterdam by the
Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. As persecutions of the Jewish population increased
in July 1942, the family went into hiding in the hidden rooms of Anne's father, Otto
Frank's, office building. After two years, the group was betrayed and transported to
concentration camps. Anne Frank and her sister, Margot, were eventually transferred to
the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they both died of typhus in March 1945.

Otto Frank, the only survivor of the family, returned to Amsterdam after the war to find
that Anne's diary had been saved, and his efforts led to its publication in 1947. It was
translated from its original Dutch and first published in English in 1952 as The Diary of a
Young Girl. It has since been translated into many languages. The diary, which was given
to Anne on her 13th birthday, chronicles her life from 12 June 1942 until 1 August 1944.