The Greatest Living Authors. Who would you add?

[Anonymous No.5003085]

Hey /tv/ here, I found this document on my computer entitled "Greatest Living Authors" I don't remember making it at all but here's how it goes:
Isabel Allende
Martin Amis
Margaret Atwood
Paul Auster
Pat Barker
Julian Barnes
John Barth
A.S. Byatt
Paulo Coelho
J.M. Coetzee
Don DeLillo
Joan Didion
E.L. Doctorow
Umberto Eco
James Ellroy
Jeffrey Eugenides
J.G. Farrell
Jonathan Franzen
Nadine Gordimer
Günter Grass
Peter Handke
Alan Hollinghurst
Michel Houellebecq
Kazuo Ishiguro
Ismail Kadare
James Kelman
Stephen King
William Kotzwinkle
Milan Kundera
John le Carré
Javier Marías
Cormac McCarthy
Ian McEwan
Lorrie Moore
Toni Morrison
Alice Munro
Haruki Murakami
V.S. Naipaul
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Cees Nooteboom
Joyce Carol Oates
Edna O’Brien
Amos Oz
Victor Pelevin
Thomas Pynchon
Marilynne Robinson
Philip Roth
Salman Rushdie
Zadie Smith
Botho Strauss
Patrick Süskind
Mario Vargas Llosa
Alice Walker
Jeanette Winterson
Tom Wolfe

Who would you add/replace/delete? Also, feel free to discuss any of the authors on the list.

[Anonymous No.5003091]

lmao

[Anonymous No.5003108]

>>5003085
Yikes. What is it with you /tv/ guys and your 'greatest' lists? We're talking about writers here, art, not sports.

[Anonymous No.5003152]

>>5003108
>thinks /lit/ isn't the same tier as /tv/ with its obsession with lists, and greatest, and comparative versus evaluative remarks
kek

[Anonymous No.5003269]

The greatest one is not there

[Anonymous No.5003376]

Add Kathryn Lasky.

[Anonymous No.5003459]

Some of the people do not belong on that list in my opinion.

[Anonymous No.5003478]

>>5003459
fascinating opinion.

[Anonymous No.5003494]

Add James Joyce and Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[Anonymous No.5003504]

>>5003269
whos that

[Anonymous No.5003511]

>>5003085

Stephen King, Paulo Coehlo, Toni Morrison, Zadie Smith for starters do not belong on that list. To be frank that is just a list of writers, a greatest list should not have more than ten on it.

[Anonymous No.5003515]

>Philip Roth
>Thomas Pynchon
>Cormac McCarthy
>Günter Grass
>Don DeLillo
>John Barth
I narrowed it down a bit.

>Margaret Atwood
>Joyce Carol Oates
>Paulo Coelho
>Jonathan Franzen
>Stephen King
>Toni Morrison
top kek

[Anonymous No.5003522]

>>5003504

[Anonymous No.5003528]

>>5003522
>being a google shill
why not just not use retarded fillenames?

[Anonymous No.5003534]

Teju Cole will be on this list soon

[Anonymous No.5003535]

>>5003528
kenzaburo oe isn't a girl

[Anonymous No.5003542]

>>5003494
I'm sorry to be be bearer of bad news, but both of them are dead. Would you like a moment?

[Anonymous No.5003551]

>>5003515
>Toni Morrison
don't let your racism and misogyny blind you Anon.

[Anonymous No.5003579]

Paulo Coelho died in 2013

[Anonymous No.5003592]

>>5003579
First Joyce and Dostoyevsky and now Coelho? Nooooooo!!!

[Anonymous No.5003594]

>>5003515
Franzen and Morrison have both written at least one very good novel. Maybe not greatest-living-writer good, but neither of them are trash. But, yeah, putting Coelho on that list is absolutely ridiculous.

[Anonymous No.5003608]

>>5003579
no he didn't
he's also pleb

[Anonymous No.5004038]

I agree that a lot of those writers just aren't great. Good, sure, maybe, but not among the best, even if you insist on having so many.

The most obvious names missing (to me) are Vollmann and McElroy.

[Anonymous No.5004079]

>>5003594
franzen might be decent if he took dfw's dick out of his mouth for once

[Anonymous No.5004081]

As has been said, OP, youre list isn't too good as it is. Perhaps Dave Eggers deserves a place on it?

[Anonymous No.5004106]

I was gonna say you forgot W.G Sebald but then I remembered he died that one time.

[Anonymous No.5004127]

>>5003085
considering william gass is the best living author, he sould definetely be on the list

[Anonymous No.5004138]

>>5003085
They all go to "just decent" (Kundera, Coetzee, Kadare, Pynchon, Süskind, Eco) to "gross" (Coelho, Stephen King...).
Between these, you have writers in the middle, half-decent, half-gross: Rushdie, Houellebecq, Murakami...
Any solid classic (say, any book by Tolstoy, Swift, Proust or De Quincey) will destroy any author here, even the "decent" ones. Avoid them all and you won't lose much.

[Anonymous No.5004149]

>>5004138
All of your solid classics are dead tho.

[Anonymous No.5004152]

>>5003515
oates, franzen, and morrison have good work tho

i guess i wouldn't say "greatest living" though

[Anonymous No.5004157]

[Anonymous No.5004172]

>no Coover
>no Salter

[Anonymous No.5004194]

>>5004149
It's not my problem. I'm still alive to read them.

[Anonymous No.5004784]

>>5004138
>proust
>implying this shit tier writer could destroy anyone.

[Anonymous No.5004793]

>Paulo Coelho

[Anonymous No.5004802]

>>5004793
I think the OP is just a troller attempting to rile us up. Why else would he tell us that he comes from /tv/?

[Anonymous No.5004818]

>Isabel Allende

Toplel m8, coming from a Chilean

[OP No.5004825]

>>5004802
I just said that so you guys would be more gentle if I listed any writers that are generally accepted as bad on this board, seeing as I'm a first-timer here and I really only know six people on my list.
It'd be like if someone from /v/ came over to /tv/ with a "best living" list and it had Tarantino and/or Nolan on it, they would get savaged for not knowing any better.

[Anonymous No.5004837]

>>5004784
When I was 20, Proust looked like the most boring, weak and overrated author ever to me. He was a terrible impostor with repellent prose, only good for females.
Now I'm 30 and I think he's among the greatest: constantly full of strength and fresh ideas, always with an excellent taste. But it's hard to see what's remarkable when you're too young for it.
Wait some time, read more, live more, then try again Proust, and you'll understand.

[Anonymous No.5004846]

>>5003085
Tom Wolfe and no Gene Wolfe? lol

[Anonymous No.5004851]

>>5004818
Never read anything by her, what's wrong with her?

[Anonymous No.5004878]

>>5004818
On a similar vein
>Paulo Coelho
toplel. This coming from a Brazilian.

[Anonymous No.5004894]

>>5004837
I'm 29. I like Jean Genet. Proust is terrible.

[Anonymous No.5004900]

>>5004837
Im sure I'll understand more when I'm older but at 20 I already love Proust, I think lots of people my age do

[Anonymous No.5004902]

>>5003515
>>5003511
What's wrong with Stephen King?

[Anonymous No.5004929]

>mfw I was just about to complain about the lack of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, but then I remembered

[Anonymous No.5004941]

>>5004900
I'm 22 and there's no author I love more than Proust. That some people dislike him so much is so strange to me. I understand people not liking other authors I like, but with him I just don't get it.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.5004954]

>No Ursula Le Guin

[Anonymous No.5004960]

>>5003152
Fine. I don't like these list threads on /lit/ either. Stop forcing me to post here!

[Anonymous No.5005009]

>>5004929
WHTH he is DEAD? I didn't know he was dead I was just about to post. Wat a nj what a shit day and the sun.

dicks

[Anonymous No.5005043]

>no Krasznahorkai

[Anonymous No.5005151]

>>5004941

stay pleb

[Anonymous No.5005159]

>>5003085
don delilo is a god

[Anonymous No.5005190]

>>5003085
Sounds perfect.
I don't really impose my tastes on people, nor to I listen to anything you guys say.

[Anonymous No.5006324]

>>5003085
>Lorrie Moore
What do you guys think of her?

She's one of my favorites and I think her work (besides Bark) is amazing. But I can't help but feel a little ashamed since she seems kinda Oprah's Book Club-esqe.

Also, this new fucking house number captcha is bullshit. I did too type the fucking thing correctly! From now on I'm typing it wrong on purpose to subvert the system.

[Anonymous No.5006345]

>>5004902
>What's wrong with Stephen King?

[Anonymous No.5006349]

>reading the works of authors still living

[Anonymous No.5006361]

>>5006349
This

[Anonymous No.5006395]

>>5005043

This.

It's fucking shameful that the BEST LIVING NOVELIST took this long to get mentioned.

Yes, he is better than Pynchon.
I fucking went there.

[Anonymous No.5006397]

You forgot Gloria Tesch.

[Anonymous No.5006408]

>>5006397

[Anonymous No.5006411]

>>5003085
>Paulo Coelho

[Anonymous No.5006443]

>>5005923
shifting the goalposts

[Anonymous No.5006791]

I was just going to say Gabriel Garcia Marquez but.

[Anonymous No.5006807]

>>5003085
david foster wallace

[Tallis !!DxrlCMGAS2J No.5006812]

ellis tho

[Anonymous No.5009021]

Bump

[Anonymous No.5009060]

>>5005043
This.

Also no Knausgaard.
No St.Aubyn
No Norman Rush
No Lydia Davis
No Amy Hempel
No Littell
No Tao Lin

[Anonymous No.5009762]

>>5003085
I made your list.

[Anonymous No.5009767]

>>5006807
fuck off troll.

[Anonymous No.5010254]

>>5009762
No you didn't, fuck off Tao

[Anonymous No.5010259]

>>5003522

this by a long shot

[Anonymous No.5010288]

>>5003085
top Anglocentrism

[Anonymous No.5010296]

>>5010288

>top Anglocentrism

This is the part where you list all the other top living authors this thread has missed out on.

I'll wait.

[Anonymous No.5010484]

>>5010259
Thanks for recognizing the importance of understanding basic 4chan features.

[Anonymous No.5012791]

>>5003515
is sotweed the best barth has to offer

[Anonymous No.5012827]

>>5003085
JG Farrel drowned back in the 1970's

[Anonymous No.5013077]

>>5012791
I think it's lots of fun. I also like Giles Goat-Boy.

[Anonymous No.5013095]

>>5013077
>mfw I tried the eggplant thing

[OP No.5014508]

>>5012827
Oh shit. You're right...