Has this country produced any literature of worth post 1945?

Has this country produced any literature of worth post 1945?

yes

I actually wonder myself. I've been waiting patiently for someone on Veeky Forums to recommend something written in England during the 20th century bc most of the serious writing by native English speakers seems to have been done by Americans and Irishmen.

Parade's End you plebeian.

Gormenghast series too

>I've been waiting patiently

have you really?
how patiently have you been waiting?
describe a typical day of waiting. do you do other tasks, or do you just sit, arms folded, the clock ticking sonorously in the corner, hoping that one day someone will realise what it is that you are waiting for?

>post 1945

All of Graham Greene's stuff.

Most of Evelyn Waugh's stuff.

Postwar British literature is actually pretty great, it's only been in the last 20 years or so that their writing has fallen off a cliff.

John Fowles was my nigga.

harry potter

That's genre fiction.

what genre would that be?

Britsploitation

This needs to be answered.

Muriel Spark
Angela Carter
John Fowles
Alan Warner (Morvern Callar, maybe not the rest)
Elizabeth Smart kind of counts even though she's Canadian.

Britain isn't a country you idiots

Elliot Rodger was born in London and had a British father

No, but not many countries have tbqh. Pic related is one of the few exceptions in that regard.
>inb4 america

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh is probably the best 20th Century British novel but there are few that are regarded as classics. (A Clockwork Orange, Lord of the Flies, Atonement etc)

yes

ignore the fry quote on the front, it's a genuinely sublime book

I would argue that Brian Aldiss produced literary sci-fi in the mid twentieth century in Non Stop and Hothouse. Particularly the deliberate way he writes about ho and, enclosed environments with dense vegetation in these two books.

GRAHAM GREENE

This, also Ishiguro inb4 weeb and

I don't know, Britain is dead to me after Brexit.

What I said was clear enough.

If "waiting" has some strange ambiguity to it, then maybe it would please you to think I said "I have been hoping for someone on Veeky Forums to recommend a British novel of the 20th century that isn't 1984" and I actually got some pretty good responses ITT.

Take pic related. There's nothing really holy about this chart but you can appreciate that these are the books Veeky Forums memes the most and the only post-war or even 20th to 21st century novel of England jumping out at me is 1984. In my high opinion of that great nation, I expected greater representation from such an important country.

Now, without having sidetracked myself and wasted everyone's time and shitposting faculties, do you get what I meant in my original post?

Anthony Burgess' stuff is pretty great.

wow jeez calm down dude you're going to have a cardiac arrest

No use responding to "loll u mad??" but I'm comfy af rn. Pardon me composing the most comprehensive, spoonfeediest response I could but I'm dealing with the problem of ambiguity.

weak and pathetic lad

Ishiguro?

Nischt sprache dicht language niscthmore

>England

Britain isn't only England.

>Irish
>native English speaking

Pick one.

>>Irish
>>native English speaking

>Pick one.

Kek, what century is it?

1984, The Satanic Verses, A Clockwork Orange, Lord of the Flies, Tolkien ...

Ian McKewan had a pretty solid incest-y book called Cement Garden that I read recently. Think he wrote it in the seventies.