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Hey /lit/, can you recommend some good living authors? I like Orhan Pamuk, Salman Rushdie, Yann Martel, J.M. Coetzee, Margaret Atwood, and Umberto Eco, to name a few.

Thanks.

>> No.613356

Atwood is anathema on /lit/, I fear you've signed your literary death warrant, sir or madam.

>> No.613363

>>613356

I'm not trying to show off. Just listing a few I like in the interest of getting suggestions.

>> No.613367

>>613363
Believe me, your list is not showing off around here. People just hate her and her work. There's more pretension here than all other boards combined.

That said, I don't know. Jonathan Frazen maybe. David Foster Wallace, Thomas Pynchon, etc. Nothing seems to bring your favorites together beyond more or less modernity.

>> No.613368

>>613367
Wallace died.

>> No.613369

>>613355
Have you read and enjoyed any South Asian literature apart from Rushdie?

>> No.613373

>>613368
You got me. But it was recent, more or less.

>> No.613374

>>613369

No, but I'm very much open to it.

>> No.613386

>>613373

The reason I'm looking for "living" authors is that I have a tendency to read really old books. I've been getting into newer books lately, and I love looking forward to (and reading) new books by authors I already enjoy.

>> No.613390

>>613386
Wallace died in 2008, he has a posthumous novel coming out next year. So maybe he counts for your needs.

>> No.613397

Michael Chabon
Junot Diaz
V. S. Naipaul
William Trevor
Angela Carter

>> No.613401

Iain Banks is good

>> No.613406

>>613374
It's good stuff.

Try Amitav Ghosh and Mohsin Hamid.

Also, read Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things" and join the rest of us waiting for her to churn out a second novel.

>> No.613413

I like Atwood :(

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>>613413

>> No.614117

Vikram Seth
Will Self
Amis (maybe)
Vikram Chandra

>> No.614126

Pynchon if he really is still alive, Pamuk, Eco, Egan, McCarthy is OK I guess, as is Marquez.

>> No.614133

>>614126

He's alive all right, he actually made a promotional voiceover for Inherent Vice, check it out it's pretty funny: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjWKPdDk0_U