The 50 Best Post-War Britsh Writers (Novelists?)
The Times' List
The Times' List
I've read stuff by maybe 10 or 20 of these writers. More, if any of them penned limericks on washroom walls. As a member of the ignorantia [Philistine Liberation Organization], I haven't even heard of a bunch of them.
The 50 greatest British writers since 1945
What better way to start the year than with an argument? The Times has decided to present you with a ranking of whom they consider the best postwar British writers, and are awaiting your responses
1. Philip Larkin
2. George Orwell
3. William Golding
4. Ted Hughes
5. Doris Lessing
6. J. R. R. Tolkien
7. V. S. Naipaul
8. Muriel Spark
9. Kingsley Amis
10. Angela Carter
11. C. S. Lewis
12. Iris Murdoch
13. Salman Rushdie
14. Ian Fleming
15. Jan Morris
16. Roald Dahl
17. Anthony Burgess
18. Mervyn Peake
19. Martin Amis
20. Anthony Powell
21. Alan Sillitoe
22. John Le Carré
23. Penelope Fitzgerald
24. Philippa Pearce
25. Barbara Pym
26. Beryl Bainbridge
27. J. G. Ballard
28. Alan Garner
29. Alasdair Gray
30. John Fowles
31. Derek Walcott
32. Kazuo Ishiguro
33. Anita Brookner
34. A. S. Byatt
35. Ian McEwan
36. Geoffrey Hill
37. Hanif Kureishi
38. Iain Banks
39. George Mackay Brown
40. A. J. P. Taylor
41. Isaiah Berlin
42. J. K. Rowling
43. Philip Pullman
44. Julian Barnes
45. Colin Thubron
46. Bruce Chatwin
47. Alice Oswald
48. Benjamin Zephaniah
49. Rosemary Sutcliff
50. Michael Moorcock
Category: Books, etc., PLO (Philistine LIberation Organization) Posted on
Sunday, February 3, 2008 at 12:36am
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Hmmm. Okay, as long as I can put Frank Frazetta near the top of the list of post-WWII American artists, I'll admit Moorcock, here.
I'd have put Joan Aiken above Philip Pullman, too. But then, so few people, these days, read the truly good kids' novels.