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Name 1 (ONE) good author from this country since the 20th century that isn't Virginia Woolf.

>> No.19977457

orwell

>> No.19977484

>>19977357
Evelyn Waugh
JG Ballard
Graham Greene
DH Lawrence
CS Lewis
Malcolm Lowry
Ford Madox Ford
Anthony Burgess
W Somerset Maugham
Rudyard Kipling
Henry Green

>> No.19977508

>>19977357
Martin Amis
Aldous Huxley

>> No.19977558

Kazuo Ishiguro

>> No.19977621

>>19977357
Robert Graves
Mary Renault
E. M. Forster
Evelyn Waugh
E. F. Benson

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19977739

Me

>> No.19978171

>>19977484
Add em forster.
I also like Rushdie and ishiguro but I'm not sure if they meet ops criteria.

>> No.19978507

>>19977357
Iris Murdoch

though technically born in Dublin, she spent almost all her time from early childhood onwards in England, and her family was Presbyterian so she doesn't have that Irish Catholic baggage

>> No.19978525

>>19977357
Graham Greene
Ford Madox Ford
Wyndham Lewis
Mp Shiel
Housman

>>19977484
You don’t like Wyndham?

>> No.19978528

>>19977357
Tolkien
T.S. Eliot

>> No.19978547

>>19978525
Algernon blackwwod
Lord Dunsany

>> No.19979212

>>19977357
There are plenty. What's more shocking is how bad French literature became starting about the 1960's.

>> No.19979539

Patrick O'Brian

>> No.19979568

>>19977739
this but me