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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.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Iain M. Banks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Also Iain Banks. One of his M-less books was on Play as an M and it's the only non-pew fiction I've read in a long time, but I actually finished it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I remember reading an interview of his where he said he wrote his contemporary fiction in order to support his science fiction writing. Whilst they're still good novels, his regular works didn't have as much of his soul as his SF.