Best World Authors of 20th Century

[edtost]

kafka, joyce, nabokov as previously mentioned; dostoyevsky is too early right?

[erby]

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez


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And it's not even close...

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[Danenania]

Yukio Mishima and Salman Rushdie are a couple of non-Western choices (although I think Rushdie was raised in England?). What are thoughts those two?

[TheBlueMonster]

I don't know if you'd get away with calling Rushdie a greatest author. However, one author not mentioned thus far is Virginia Woolf (even though I don't love her)

[KDawgCometh]

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dostoyevsky is too early right?

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I think of him more as a 19th century author

[Chairman Wood]

My 3 favs
Marquez
Joyce
Rushdie

[stigmata]

Dostoyevsky died 1895.

Great list so far, but I would add:

Umberto Eco
Primo Levi
Aldous Huxley

[diebitter]

William Golding

George Orwell. It'd be a better world if everyone could comprehend 1984.

[Voltron87]

roald dahl is awesome. henry sugar, his two autobiographies were especially good.