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In 2008, The Times ranked Carter tenth in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". [1] In 2012, Nights at the Circus was selected as the best ever winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize .
Penelope Mary Fitzgerald (17 December 1916 – 28 April 2000) was a Booker Prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist and biographer from Lincoln, England. [1] In 2008 The Times listed her among "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945". [2]
Ian Russell McEwan CH CBE FRSA FRSL (born 21 June 1948) is a British novelist and screenwriter.In 2008, The Times featured him on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945" and The Daily Telegraph ranked him number 19 in its list of the "100 most powerful people in British culture".
She won the Whitbread Awards prize for best novel in 1977 and 1996, and was nominated five times for the Booker Prize. She was described in 2007 as a national treasure. [ 3 ] In 2008, The Times named Bainbridge on their list of the "50 greatest British writers since 1945".
In 2008, The Times ranked him ninth on a list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. [2] He was the father of the novelist Martin Amis. Life and career
In 2008 The Times ranked Chatwin as number 46 on their list of "50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945". Chatwin was born in Sheffield . After completing his secondary education at Marlborough College , [ 2 ] he went to work at the age of 18 at Sotheby's in London , where he gained an extensive knowledge of art and eventually ran the auction ...
In 2008, The Times named Moorcock in its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". [5] Moorcock is also a recording musician; he has contributed to the music acts Hawkwind, Blue Öyster Cult, Robert Calvert and Spirits Burning, and to his own project, Michael Moorcock & The Deep Fix.
Powell's major work has remained in print continuously and has been the subject of television and radio dramatisations. In 2008, The Times newspaper named Powell among their list of "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945." [3]