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T. S. Eliot
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J. R. R. Tolkien
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Sir W. G. Golding
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[Birth] D.M. Lessing
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Harold Pinter
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[Birth] V.S. Naipaul
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[Birth] Seamus Heany
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"1984" G.Orwell
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Absurdism
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The "Angry Young Men"
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Post-colonial literature
Post-colonial literature( since 1950s) is a body of literary writings that reacts to the discourse of colonization. Post-colonial literature often involves writings that deal with issues of de-colonization or the political and cultural independence of people formerly subjugated to colonial rule. It is also a literary critique to texts -
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Postmodernism
The term Postmodern literature is used to describe certain tendencies in post-World War II literature. It is both a continuation of the experimentation championed by writers of the modernist period (relying heavily, for example, on fragmentation, paradox, questionable narrators, etc.). Postmodern literature, like postmodernism as a whole, is difficult to define and there is little agreement on the exact characteristics, scope, and importance of postmodern literature. -
[Nobel] Bertrand Russel
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[Birth] Kazuo Ishiguro
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Samuel Beckett "Waiting for Godot"
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[Nobel] Winston Churchill (Ha!)
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J. R. R. Tolkien "The Lord of the Rings"
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William Golding "Lord of the Flies"
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Graham Greene "The Quiet American"
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John Osborne "Look Back in Anger"
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V. S. Naipaul "House for Mr. Biswas"
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Anthony Burgess "A Clockwork Orange"
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Tom Stoppard "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead"
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Booker Prize Established
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Caryl Churchill "Cloud Nine"
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Salman Rushdie "Midnight's Children"
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[Nobel] William Golding
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Julian Barnes "Flaubert's Parrot"
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Kazuo Ishiguro "The Remains of the Day"
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T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry inaugurated
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[Nobel] Seamus Heaney
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[Nobel] V. S. Naipaul
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[Nobel] Harold Pinter
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[Nobel] Doris Lessing
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[Nobel] Hilary Mantel
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Hilary Mantel "Wolf Hall"
