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J. R. R. Tolkien
The author of the fantasy novels The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings series and the Silmarillion. -
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William Golding
Golding was a British novelist, poet, playwright. He received the Booker Prize for literature in 1980 for his novel Rites of Passage and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983
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Muriel Spark
Spark was an award-winning Scottish writer.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Mandelbaum Gate
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Kingsley Amis
Amis wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, and various short stories, radio and television scripts, and books of social and literary criticism. Has been said to be one he finest British comic novelist of the second half of the twentieth century.
Lucky Jim
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Philip Larkin
After graduating from Oxford, Larkin became a librarian, and it was during the 30 years he spent running the library at the University of Hull that he produced the greater part of his published work. His poems are marked for a very English, glum accuracy about emotions, places, and relationships. Larkin has been called "the saddest heart in the post-war supermarket".
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John Fowles
The Collector
The Magus
The French Lieutenant's Woman
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Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes was an English poet and children's writer. Critics routinely rank him as one of the best poets of his generation. Hughes was British Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death.
Poems:
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Angela Carter
Angela Carter is known for her feminism, magical realism and science fiction works.
The Magic Toyshop
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Trends, noticable genres
*Historiographic metafiction - works that fictionalize actual historical events or figures
*Magic realism - Literary work marked by the use of still, sharply defined, smoothly painted images of figures and objects depicted in a surrealistic manner. The themes and subjects are often imaginary, somewhat outlandish and fantastic and with a certain dream-like quality.
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MOVEMENT: Counterculture
In the United Kingdom, the counterculture of the 1960s was mainly a reaction against the post-war social norms of the 1940s and 1950s, although "Ban the Bomb" protests centered around opposition to nuclear weaponry. -
Flaubert's parrot written by Julian Barnes first published
Julian Patrick Barnes (born in 1946) is a contemporary writer. He has been shortlisted three times for the Man Booker Prize (Flaubert's Parrot (1984), England, England (1998), and Arthur & George (2005)). He has written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh. -
Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro published Remains of the Day that later got the Booker Prize for Best Fiction. The novel ranks in the Sunday Times list of 100 greatest novels.
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Never Let Me Go -
Harry Potter saga begins
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V. S. Naipaul received the Noberl Prize
Naipaul is a novelist and essayist of Indo-Trinidadian descent. In 2001 he received a Nobel Prize for Literature.
Booker Prize (1971) for In a Free State
Other notable works:
A House for Mr. Biswas
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Doris Lessing received the Nobel Prize
Doris Lessing, an Iranian-born writer, received the Nobel Prize for Literature for her life works.
The Grass is Singing
The Golden Noteboo
