contemporary authors
Today's living novelists
Contemporary authors are writers who are currently active or recently active—generally those producing work within living memory.
The term appears in academic contexts, bookstore categories, and reading lists to distinguish current literary voices from historical ones: a course on contemporary authors, the contemporary authors section.
The boundary shifts with time; authors considered contemporary eventually become historical.
- literary fictionProse emphasizing craft and depth
- fictionImagined narrative work
- postmodernismSkepticism toward universal truths
- AfrofuturismAfrican diaspora speculative movement
- diverse voicesMultiple distinct perspectives represented
Margaret Atwood · self-publishing · identity politics · poetry · minimalism · short story collections · debut novels · dystopian futures · speculative fiction · Haruki Murakami · magical realism · Salman Rushdie · drama · experimental writing · memoir · creative nonfiction · digital platforms · graphic novels
- Arabic literatureAdonis, Arabian Nights, One Thousand and One Nights, Khalil Gibran, court poetry
- literary periodsRenaissance, medieval, Victorian, modern, ancient
- Japanese LiteratureNorwegian Wood, Rashomon, Confessions, Kappa, Genji
- Israeli Literature
- fictionfiction, novel, novels, novella, novellas
- writersnovelist, writer, poet, journalist, essayist
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19th-century British writers
Homer · Shakespeare · Chaucer · Virgil · Dante
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