Name the best writers of the past fifty years

name the best writers of the past fifty years

Plato

ohmer

I doubt most people here would know him, let alone have the intellectual magnitude to appreciate my reasoning for choosing him.

Sîn-lēqi-unninni.

wow thats imperssive

Walker Percy

gass, gaddis, roth

Do not, under any circumstances, reply to tripfags, ya got that?
>they're all american

I dunno that bretty old

Zeth MgFarlane

what the actual fuck is that picture?

Thomas Bernhard
László Krasznahorkai
W.G. Sebald

Born in the last fifty years, or that has published something in the last fifty years?

published in the last fifty years

jej

correct

Sebald I can see, but Bernhard better than Gaddis? C'mon man. I like Bernhard too, but c'mon.

The guy that wrote StarShip Troopers.

George RR Martin. JK Rowling. John Green.

If you say so, my man

Beckett and Borges. The only true.

Ultimate pleb question, where do you hear of writers like these? Just looked them up and they look interesting but I feel like I never would have come across them were it not for this thread or a similar one.

these three writers are pretty established, pleb-user.

and all worth reading, I was going to say especially Sebald, but no, definitely all three.

Thanks, I plan to. Is it a bad idea to watch Satantango before reading it?

fuck yea my dude. finally someone with real taste

Robert Anton Wilson.

hilda hilst. raymond federman.

Don't get me wrong, Gaddis is one of my favorite writers. But his best work is from 1955, and J R isn't too far from the cutoff range either. Consequently he wasn't first to come to mind for "last 50 years"

if you're just starting to get into contemporary lit, you'll want to take note of publishers like New Directions and Dalkey Archive. those 3 writers are all essential and have been covered by a wealth of mainstream outlets (VICE even has a thing on bernhard)

the book and the film are masterpieces in their own right, i wouldn't say the order matters too much. i personally saw the film first. i should note that the tone of the book and the film are quite distinct (same goes for the other tarr adaptations), i find the books to be much more claustrophobic

Bob Dylan

David Foster Wallace
Thomas Pynchon
Jonathan Franzen
Cormac McCarthy
Zadie Smith
Joyce Carol Oates
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Salman Rushdie
Toni Morrison
Gao Xingjian
Ma Jian
Haruki Murakami
Junot Diaz

Obviously Veeky Forums will hate all of the non-white, non-male authors I just listed, so I'll trigger Veeky Forums even more. I think the following genre/popular authors are going to be remembered as the best of their kind:

Stephen King
J.K. Rowling
George R.R. Martin
China Mieville

Also, I would be extremely surprised if anyone here could unironically name any poets from the last 50 years.

But the post you replied to was also a tripfag

>China Mieville
But he's so shit

Nabokov and it's not even close

>past 50 years

Nabokov was pathetic.

he first part of your post is a bretty solid list.

Haruki Murakami is a shitty YA author

MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM
JONATHAN LETHEM
SALMAN RUSHDIE

Alice Oswald

Just finished two of her books - good stuff

Pynchon
Vila-Matas
Kraznahorkai
Antunes
Murname
Bernhard
Sebald
Marias
Roubaud
Uwe Johnson
Senges
Michon
Toussaint
Magri
Robbe-Grillet (he published Repetition in 2001)
McCarthy

Forgot Geoffrey Hill

David Eddings (and maybe leigh Eddings, by we'll never now)

Maurice Blanchot
Peter Handke

Vila-Matas
Marias
Bolaño
Chirbes
Delibes
Vargas Llosa
García Márquez
Fuentes
Cortázar
Aub
Marsé

Are non-Spanish language writers even trying?