A matter of opinion

[callmemadam]

The Times list of the fifty greatest British writers since 1945

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

Comments

[dozydormouse.livejournal.com]

Quite gratifying to realise I have read more than half of them especially as I do not usually go in for Greatests anything.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Oops, I didn't mean to post that until I'd said something about it. 'tis the season of lists.

[debodacious.livejournal.com]

Well, they wouldn't all be in my top 50. I have never heard of two of them.

I would find it easier to do a top 50 Books than Authors, I think.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Me too. Alice Oswald, who she?