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Greatest British Writers Since 1945

Can you name the 50 greatest British writers since 1945, as selected by The Times?
Includes writers of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and plays
Not all of them were born in Britain
Source: https://www.listal.com/list/times-50-greatest
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Last updated: November 2, 2019
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Philip Larkin
George Orwell
William Golding
Ted Hughes
Doris Lessing
J.R.R. Tolkien
V.S. Naipaul
Muriel Spark
Kingsley Amis
Angela Carter
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C.S. Lewis
Iris Murdoch
Salman Rushdie
Ian Fleming
Jan Morris
Roald Dahl
Anthony Burgess
Mervyn Peake
Martin Amis
Anthony Powell
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Alan Sillitoe
John le Carre
Penelope Fitzgerald
Philippa Pearce
Barbara Pym
Beryl Bainbridge
J.G. Ballard
Alan Garner
Alasdair Grey
John Fowles
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Derek Walcott
Kazuo Ishiguro
Anita Brookner
A.S. Byatt
Ian McEwan
Geoffrey Hill
Hanif Kureishi
Iain Banks
George Mackay Brown
A.J.P. Taylor
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Isaiah Berlin
J.K. Rowling
Philip Pullman
Julian Barnes
Colin Thubron
Bruce Chatwin
Alice Oswald
Benjamin Zephaniah
Rosemary Sutcliff
Michael Moorcock
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