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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien,
He was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955) -
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2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991 Graham Greene,
He was an English author, playwright and literary critic. His works explore the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world. One of his best known works The Quiet American (1955) It was adapted into films in 1958 and 2002 -
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Sir William Gerald Golding
A British novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate. -
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11 August 1913 – 31 May 1991 Sir Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson,
He was an English novelist and short story writer. He was awarded the 1958 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for "The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot" and later received a knighthood for his services to literature. He was a liberal humanist. -
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9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985 Philip Arthur Larkin.
One of the greatest English poets of the latter half of the twentieth century. He was influenced by W. H. Auden, W. B. Yeats, and Thomas Hardy, his poems are highly-structured but have flexible verse forms. One of most famous works is "The Whitsun Weddings" a collection of 32 poems(1955). -
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John Fowles.
In 2008, The Times newspaper named Fowles among their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". One of his most famous works was 1969's "The French Lieutenant’s Woman." -
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Edward James Hughes
He was an English poet and children's writer, known as Ted Hughes. One of the best poets of his generation. Hughes was British Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death. Best works include The Hawk in the Rain (1957) and Season Songs (1976). -
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Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie
A British-Indian novelist and essayist. He achieved notability with his second novel, Midnight's Children (1981). -
W.G.Golding's "The Lord of the Flies"
An allegorical novel, which discusses how culture created by man fails, using as an example a group of British schoolboys stuck on a deserted island who try to govern themselves, but with disastrous results. -
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Kazuo Ishiguro
A British novelist. Ishiguro is one of the most celebrated contemporary fiction authors in the English speaking world, who has received four Man Booker Prize nominations, including winning the 1989 prize for his novel The Remains of the Day (1989). -
Philip Larkin "The Whitsun Weddings"
One of most famous works of Larkin is "The Whitsun Weddings" a collection of 32 poems(1955). -
"The Lord of the Rings"
Tolkien is best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955) -
"The Hawk in the Rain"
One of the best works of Ted Hughes is "The Hawk in the Rain" (1957) -
Angus Wilson "The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot"
Wilson was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for "The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot" in 1958 -
Grham Green "The Quiet American"
Green's one best known works is The Quiet American (1955) It was adapted into films in 1958 and 2002 -
John Fowles "The French Lieutenant’s Woman."
One of his most famous works of Fowels was 1969's "The French Lieutenant’s Woman." -
William Golding's "Rites of Passage"
This was the first book of the trilogy "To the Ends of the Earth", and went on to win the 1980 Man Booker Prize, beating Anthony Burgess' Earthly Powers. It focuses upon the account of a trip to Australia, and takes the form of a journal written by Edmund Talbot, a young, aristocratic passenger aboard a British warship. -
Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children"
Salman Rushdie's second novel, published in 1981, which won the Booker Prize also in 1981. Midnight's Children is the only Indian novel on Time's list of the 100 best English-language novels since its founding in 1923 -
Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses"
Salman Rushdie's fourth novel, first published in 1988 and inspired in part by the life of Muhammad. It was the centre of The Satanic Verses controversy, with protests from Muslims in several countries. -
Kazuo Ishiguro's "The Remains of the Day"
Publication date May 1989, won the Booker Prize also in 1989 for Best Fiction, and was later adapted into an Academy-Award nominated film. -
Sir Terence David John Pratchett
English novelist, fantasy genre, Notable works include the Discworld series of comic fantasy, UK's best-selling author of the 1990s -
Joanne Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
British author best known as the creator of the Harry Potter fantasy series -
Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate of United Kingdom 1999-2009, novelist, biographer
Poet Laureate of United Kingdom 1999-2009, "To have had 10 years working as laureate has been remarkable. Sometimes it's been remarkably difficult – the laureate has to take a lot of flak, one way or another. More often it has been remarkably fulfilling. I'm glad I did it, and I'm glad I'm giving it up – especially since I mean to continue working for poetry." -
Doris May Lessing, Nobel prize
Iranian-born British writer, author of works such as the novels The Grass is Singing(1950) and The Golden Notebook.(1962)in 2007, Lessing won the Nobel Prize in Literature. -
Don Paterson, poet
Nil Nil (1993) - the Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection
1997 - Don Paterson, God's Gift to Women - T.S. Eliot Prize
Landing Light (2003), won both the 2003 T. S. Eliot Prize and the 2003 Whitbread Poetry Award.
Rain (Faber) (2009) Forward Poetry Prize
'Love Poem for Natalie 'Tusja' Beridze' Best Single Poem(2008)
