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J. R. R. Tolkien
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William Golding
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Roald Dahl
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Eric Mottram
One of the central figures in the British Poetry Revival -
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John Fowles
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Nobel Prize
Bertrand Russell -
"Angry Young Man" by Leslie Paul
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Angry Young Men
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Nobel Prize
Winston Churchill -
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Kitchen sink realism
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The British Poetry Revival
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Liverpool poets
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Theatre censorship abolished in UK after 23 years
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V. S. Naipaul - "In a Free State"
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Beryl Bainbridge - "The Dressmaker"
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Martian poetry
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Jennifer Johnston - "Shadows on our Skin"
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Jane Gardam - "God on the Rocks"
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Fay Weldon - "Praxis"
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Barry Unsworth - "Pascali's Island "
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Salman Rushdie - "Midnight's Children"
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William Boyd - "An Ice-Cream War"
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Timothy Mo - "Sour Sweet"
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Nobel Prize
William Golding -
Doris Lessing - "The Good Terrorist"
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World Wide Web
Not a British Literature event specifically, but influenced, in long term, the spreading and development of it. -
Kazuo Ishiguro - "The Remains of the Day"
Also, Booker Prize for Fiction -
Tibor Fischer - "Under the Frog"
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New Generation Poets
A list of 'New Generation Poets' in 1994, many of them went on towards further fame. -
Graham Swift - "Last Orders"
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J.K. Rowling - "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"
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Poet Laureate of the United KIngdom
Appointed for a fixed term of 10 years -
Nobel Prize
V.S. Naipaul -
Ali Smith - "Hotel World"
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Ali Smith - "Hotel World"
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Next Generation Poets
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Ecopoetry
Its end date, in fact, is only set in order to add it as a timespan :) -
Nobel Prize
Harold Pinter -
Kazuo Ishiguro "Never Let Me Go"
2005 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 2006 British Book Awards Author of the Year -
Beginning of Brutalism
Brutalism is a literary movement formed in 2006 by three writers from the north of England (Tony O'Neill, Adelle Stripe and Ben Myers), and may have been the first literary movement to be launched via MySpace. -
Nobel Prize
Doris Lessing
