1939 to Today

  • The first novel

    Henry Green had written the first novel
  • Drama

    After 1935 there were a short period when poetic drama became popular.
  • The end of the Second World War

  • Contrasts between England and the regions

  • Poetry

  • The novel 1950

    In the 1950s a new generation of writers began to appear, with new subject and concerns
  • Absurd drama and social drama

  • A War between Catholics and Protestants

    Many British soldier died there between 1960s and 1990s
  • The novel from 1970

    The novel took several directions. The four main directions were: the focus on foreign and local, regional voices, more female voices, the academic or campus novel and the coming of the kind pf fantasy known as magic realism,

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