1950-2010 Britlit timeline (with minor exceptions)

J. R. R. Tolkien

Period: Jan 3, 1892 to Sep 2, 1973

William Golding

Period: Sep 19, 1911 to Jun 19, 1993

Roald Dahl

Period: Sep 13, 1916 to Nov 23, 1990

Eric Mottram

Period: Mar 4, 1924 to Jan 16, 1995

One of the central figures in the British Poetry Revival

John Fowles

Period: Mar 31, 1926 to Nov 5, 2005

Nobel Prize

Mar 1, 1950

Bertrand Russell

"Angry Young Man" by Leslie Paul

Mar 1, 1951

Believed to be the starting point of the movement 'Angry young men'

Angry Young Men

Period: Mar 1, 1951 to Mar 1, 1978

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Nobel Prize

Mar 3, 1953

Winston Churchill

Kitchen sink realism

Period: Mar 4, 1955 to Mar 4, 1965

The British Poetry Revival

Period: Mar 1, 1960 to Mar 1, 1975

Emerging poets trying to revitalize what their ancestors had created

Liverpool poets

Period: Mar 4, 1960 to Mar 4, 1970

Theatre censorship abolished in UK after 23 years

Mar 4, 1967

V. S. Naipaul - "In a Free State"

Mar 4, 1971

Beryl Bainbridge - "The Dressmaker"

Mar 4, 1973

(shortlist)

Martian poetry

Period: Mar 4, 1975 to Mar 4, 1985

Jennifer Johnston - "Shadows on our Skin"

Mar 4, 1977

(shortlist)

Jane Gardam - "God on the Rocks"

Mar 4, 1978

(shortlist)

Fay Weldon - "Praxis"

Mar 4, 1979

(shortlist)

Barry Unsworth - "Pascali's Island "

Mar 4, 1980

(shortlist)

Salman Rushdie - "Midnight's Children"

Mar 4, 1981

William Boyd - "An Ice-Cream War"

Mar 4, 1982

(shortlist)

Timothy Mo - "Sour Sweet"

Mar 4, 1982

(shortlist)

Nobel Prize

Mar 1, 1983

William Golding

Doris Lessing - "The Good Terrorist"

Mar 5, 1985

(shortlist)

World Wide Web

Mar 5, 1989

Not a British Literature event specifically, but influenced, in long term, the spreading and development of it.

Kazuo Ishiguro - "The Remains of the Day"

Mar 5, 1989

Also, Booker Prize for Fiction

Tibor Fischer - "Under the Frog"

Mar 5, 1992

(shortlist)

New Generation Poets

Period: Mar 4, 1994 to Mar 4, 1996

A list of 'New Generation Poets' in 1994, many of them went on towards further fame.

Graham Swift - "Last Orders"

Mar 4, 1996

J.K. Rowling - "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"

Jun 30, 1997

Poet Laureate of the United KIngdom

May 1, 1999

Appointed for a fixed term of 10 years

Nobel Prize

Mar 3, 2001

V.S. Naipaul

Ali Smith - "Hotel World"

Mar 5, 2001

(shortlist)

Ali Smith - "Hotel World"

Mar 5, 2001

(shortlist)

Next Generation Poets

Period: Mar 4, 2004 to Mar 4, 2010

Ecopoetry

Period: Mar 4, 2004 to Mar 4, 2010

Its end date, in fact, is only set in order to add it as a timespan :)

Nobel Prize

Mar 1, 2005

Harold Pinter

Kazuo Ishiguro "Never Let Me Go"

Mar 3, 2005

2005 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 2006 British Book Awards Author of the Year

Beginning of Brutalism

Apr 9, 2006

Brutalism is a literary movement formed in 2006 by three writers from the north of England (Tony O'Neill, Adelle Stripe and Ben Myers), and may have been the first literary movement to be launched via MySpace.

Nobel Prize

Mar 1, 2007

Doris Lessing