20th Century English Literature /List of FamousAuthors & Books Year Book Authors

20th Century English Literature /List of Famous

Authors & Books Year Book Authors

1900 Lord Jim Joseph Conrad

1901 Kim Rudyard Kipling

1902 Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad

1903 The Ambassadors Henry James

1904 John Bull’s Other Island (play) George Bernard Shaw

1905 Where Angels Fear to Tread E. M. Forster

1906 Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens J. M. Barrie

1907 The Playboy of the Western World J. M. Synge

1908 The Man Who Was Thursday G. K. Chesterton

1909 Tono-Bungay H. G. Wells

1910 Howards End E. M. Forster

1911 Under Western Eyes Joseph Conrad

1912 The Trespasser D. H. Lawrence

1913 Sons and Lovers D. H. Lawrence

1913 Gitanjali (Song Offering) (poetry) Rabindranath Tagore

1914 North of Boston (poetry) Robert Frost

1915 Of Human Bondage Somerset Maugham

1916 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce

1917 Prufrock and Other Observations T. S. Eliot

1918 Eminent Victorians (biography) Lytton Strachey

1919Winesburg, Ohio (the first ‘lost generation’ novel) Sherwood Anderson

1920 Anna Christie (play) Eugene O’Neill

1921 The Forsyte Saga John Galsworthy

1922 Ulysses James Joyce

1922 The Waste Land T. S. Eliot

1923 Three Soldiers John Dos Passos

1924 A Passage to India E. M. Forster

1925 Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf

1925 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald

1926 Seven Pillars of Wisdom T. E. Lawrence

1927 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf

1928 Sailing to Byzantium (The Tower) (poetry) W. B. Yeats

1928 Lady Chatterley’s Lover (banned until 1963) D. H. Lawrence

1929 A Farewell to Arms Earnest Hemingway

1930 As I Lay Dying William Faulkner

1931 The Good Earth Pearl S. Buck

1932 Brave New World Aldous Huxley

1933 The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Gertrude Stein

1934 Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller

1935 Eyeless in Gaza (published in 1936) Aldous Huxley

1936 Coolie Mulkraj Anand

1936 Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner

1937 Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck

1938 Brighton Rock Graham Greene

1939 The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck

1940 Native Son Richard Wright

1940 The Power and the Glory Graham Greene

1941 China Sky Pearl S. Buck

1942 Put Out More Flags Evelyn Waugh

1943 Caught Henry Green

1944 Love in Idleness (play) Terence Rattigan

1945 Animal Farm George Orwell

1946 Deaths and Entrances (poetry) Dylan Thomas

1947 A Streetcar Named Desire (play) Tennessee Williams

1948 The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene

1949 Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell

1949 Death of A Salesman Arthur Miller

1950 Nothing Henry Green

1951 The Old Man and the Sea (published in 1952) Earnest Hemingway
1952 Invisible Man Raloh Ellison

1953 Waiting for Godot (play premiered in English in1955) Samuel Beckett

1954 Lord of the Flies William Golding

1954Lucky Jim (the most famous ‘angry young man’novel) Kingsley Amis

1955 Lolita Vladimir Nabokov

1956Look Back in Anger (the first ‘angry young man’play) John Osborne

1957 The Birthday Party (published in 1959) Harold Pinter

1958 The Guide R. K. Narayan

1958 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe

1959 Goodbye, Columbus Philip Roth

1960 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee

1961 Catch-22 Joseph Heller

1962 The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing

1963 The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath

1964 Herzog Saul Bellow

1965 An American Dream Norman Mailer

1966 Valley of the Dolls Jacqueline Susann

1967 A Grain of Wheat Ngugi wa Thiongo

1968 The Public Image Muriel Spark

1969 The French Lieutenant’s Woman John Fowles

1970 One Hundred Years of Solitude (in Spanish 1967) Gabriel Garcia Marquez

1971 In a Free State V. S. Naipaul

1972 G John Berger

1973 Season of Anomy Wole Soyinka

1974 If Beale Street Could Talk James Baldwin

1975 Humboldt’s Gift Saul Bellow

1976 Death and the King’s Horseman Wole Soyinka

1977 Song of Solomon Toni Morrision

1978 The Sea, the Sea Iris Murdoch

1979 The Unlimited Dream Company J. G. Ballard 

1980 Earthly Powers Anthony Burgess 

1981 Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie 

1982 The Color Purple Alice Walker 

1983 The Name of the Rose (translated in English in 1983) Umberto Eco 

1983 Waterland Graham Swift 

1984 Money Martin Amis 

1985 Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Jeanette WInterson 

1986 The Old Devils Kingsley Amis 

1987 The Alchemist (published in English 1993) Paulo Coelho 

1988 Oscar and Lucinda Peter Carey 

1988 The Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie 

1989 The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro 

1990 The Buddha of Suburbia Hanif Kureishi 

1990 Possession A. S. Byatt 

1991 Generation X : Tales for an Accelerated Culture Douglas Coupland 

1992 The English Patient Michael Ondaatje 

1993 The Client John Grisham 

1993 A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth 

1994 How Late It Was, How Late James Kelman 

1995 The Calcutta Chromosome Amitav Ghosh 

1996 Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace 

1997 Underworld Don DeLillo 

1997 The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy 

1998 Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard Kiran Desai

1999 The Ground Beneath Her Feet Salman Rushdie 

2000 Riding the Bullet (world’s first mass market e- book) Stephen King

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

The history of the English language really started with the arrival of three Germanic tribes who invaded Britain during the 5th century AD. These tribes, the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes, crossed the North Sea from what today is Denmark and northern Germany. At that time the inhabitants of Britain spoke a Celtic language. But most of the Celtic speakers were pushed west and north by the invaders - mainly into what is now Wales, Scotland and Ireland. The Angles came from "Englaland" [sic] and their language was called "Englisc" - from which the words "England" and "English" are derived.Germanic invaders entered Britain on the east and south coasts in the 5th century. Old English (450-1100 AD) Part of Beowulf, a poem written in Old English.The invading Germanic tribes spoke similar languages, which in Britain developed into what we now call Old English. Old English did not sound or look like English today. Native English speakers now would have...
Read more

Beyond the Words: Understanding Post-Structuralism in Literature

Introduction: In the evolving landscape of literary theory, post-structuralism emerges as a pivotal movement that transcends the rigid confines of structuralism, inviting a more fluid interpretation of texts. This critical framework, burgeoning in the late 20th century, challenges the notion of fixed meanings and structures, advocating for the inherent instability of language and its implications for textual analysis. Origins and Key Thinkers: Post-structuralism, rooted in the philosophical insights of Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Roland Barthes, among others, serves as a response to the structuralist endeavor to uncover the universal structures underlying human culture. Derrida's concept of "deconstruction" particularly illuminates the movement's ethos, highlighting the elusiveness of fixed meanings within texts and the endless deferment of signification. Core Concepts: - Textuality and Intertextuality:  This principle posits that texts are not isolated enti...
Read more

Rabindranath Tagore Birth Anniversary

Respectful tribute to India's greatest polymath and Nobel Prize Laureate Rabindranath Tagore on his birth anniversary. * Rabindranath Tagore Jayanti or Rabindra Jayanti is a cultural celebration to mark the birth anniversary of the luminary, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Rabindranath Tagore on his birth anniversary.  * Celebrated annually and globally in May, Rabindranath Tagore Jayanti falls on the 25th day of the Bengali month of Boishakh.  *He was born on the day in the year 1268, according to the Bengali calendar and 1861 AD, as per the Gregorian calendar. He was also referred to as 'Gurudev', 'Kabiguru' and 'Biswakabi'. His work: *At the age of 11, he accompanied his father on a tour across India. * During the journey, he read the works of famous writers including classical Sanskrit poet Kalidasa.  *Upon returning, he composed a long poem in the Maithili style.  *He began studying the works of Shakespeare in his college years and in 1880 when he returned t...
Read more