British literature

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
01/01/1984	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.
05/01/1989	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. Also: Never Let Me Go
06/30/1997	Harry Potter saga begins	Joanne Mrurray (Rowling) published the first book in the Harry Potter series that turned out to be a worldwide phenomenon.
12/10/2001	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 A Bend in the River
10/11/2007	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
Timespan Dates:	Timespan Title:	Timespan Description:
01/03/1892 to 09/02/1973	J. R. R. Tolkien	The author of the fantasy novels The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings series and the Silmarillion.
09/19/1911 to 06/19/1993	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 Other works: Lord of the Flies
02/01/1918 to 04/13/2006	Muriel Spark	Spark was an award-winning Scottish writer. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie The Mandelbaum Gate The Driver's Seat
04/16/1922 to 10/22/1995	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 Take a Girl Like You
08/09/1922 to 12/02/1985	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". Works: "Party Politics", "This Be The Verse", "The Whitsun Weddings"
03/31/1926 to 11/05/2005	John Fowles	The Collector The Magus The French Lieutenant's Woman The Ebony Tower
08/17/1930 to 10/28/1998	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: Hawk Roosting
05/07/1940 to 02/16/1992	Angela Carter	Angela Carter is known for her feminism, magical realism and science fiction works. The Magic Toyshop Nights at the Circus
01/01/1950 to 03/05/2010	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. *Campus novel
01/01/1960 to 01/01/1970	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.