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Who do you consider a Great Author of the last 50 years or so (first well-known work after 1970)? I'd like to get a feel for who's who in modern literature. Any language/culture. Fiction only. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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Bonus points for any books you believe are classics from that time period. Any language, but only fiction please.

I'm really excited to see what Lemmy has.

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[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 1 points 8 months ago

James Brian Jacques Redwall series

[-] TwinTusks@bitforged.space 1 points 8 months ago

Good choice (I actually did not read any of the Redwall Series, but I watched the heck out of the PBS adaption.)

[-] Leviathan@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

There's a lot of authors here I love so I'll mention one who isn't here.

Christopher Moore.

He writes fantastic, absurd, loving stories.

[-] daina@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

No love for Dave Eggers? A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius was so so excellent, and there were sentences in You Shall Know Our Velocity! that made me weep with joy.

[-] baduhai@sopuli.xyz 1 points 8 months ago

Paulo Coelho

[-] Redderthanmisty@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 8 months ago

I've been loving Andy Weir's space trilogy (The Martian, Artemis, Project Hail Mary). I haven't been able to put his books down, and another one of his stories is currently in production for a film.

[-] Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago

Graphite girl in archive of our own and Freedom Guard in fanfiction.net

[-] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz -1 points 8 months ago

Older than you asked for but I'd vote for Mervyn Peake

Then one that enjoyed but never heard that much about was Sophia McDougall

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