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A simple selection of the ten best Russian novels would be problematic as it would be dominated by the books of two writers – Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy – so to avoid that we have selected only one book by any one writer. Even so, the choices are obvious and most of the books on this …
The best science fiction writers as a group include some very fine writers who, like George Orwell and Margaret Atwood, stand as being among some of the best fiction writers of any type, including literary fiction. Science fiction is a genre that goes back, perhaps surprisingly, to sixteenth-century writers like Thomas More and Francis Godwin, …
The best twenty-first century novels are hard to define, but we’ve given it a good go below. One of the most striking aspects of the century is the rapid development of technology and twenty-first century fiction writers can’t avoid it as a major characteristic of their time, which accounts for science fiction being lifted out …
The very best South American novels burst on the scene to make South American literate a major literary force in the twentieth century. It previously consisted mainly of oral and some written literature in indigenous languages but, with the explosion of immigrants in the twentieth century South American literature in Spanish rose to prominence around …
South Africa has a great tradition of fictional works. The country has an indelible scar resulting from its colonial and racial history, vitally important to everyone connected with the country and an obsession among writers. Setting any story at all in South Africa does not require a conscious exploration of the issues: just telling a …
The earliest manifestations of the novel form appeared in seventeenth-century Europe – more in France and Spain, rather than in England – and they were quite significant in the history of the novel, providing, as they did, models for later writers.
One of the most interesting things about the best Welsh novels is that, until relatively recently, there was very little Welsh fiction in English, making it the newest body of fiction in the English-speaking world. Moreover, the novel form was relatively late in coming to Wales, as before the twentieth century Welsh writers writing in …
German fiction has a rich history, with countless novelists and some truly great books, going back generations from the very best German writers.
German fiction has a rich history, with countless novelists and some truly great books, going back generations from the very best German writers.
So many of the best Canadian authors have taken their place in the world of literature, several, like those on this list, becoming world-renowned authors.
