modern authors
Today's literary creators
Modern authors are writers from roughly the 20th century onward, though the boundary shifts with time.
The term often distinguishes contemporary or recent writers from classical ones: We're studying modern authors like Toni Morrison and Cormac McCarthy.
In literary contexts, "modern" may refer specifically to the modernist period (early 20th century), while "contemporary" covers writers still active today.
- literary fictionProse emphasizing craft and depth
- social justiceFair distribution of opportunities
- fictionImagined narrative work
- self-publishingReleasing work without publishers
- minimalismAesthetic of reduction
identity · memoirs · graphic novels · poetry · activism · audiobooks · environmentalism · magical realism · e-books · technology · speculative fiction · climate fiction · cultural preservation · realism · philosophy · experimental writing · drama · public discourse
- Arabic literatureAdonis, Arabian Nights, One Thousand and One Nights, Khalil Gibran, court poetry
- writersnovelist, writer, poet, journalist, essayist
- German LiteratureGoethe, Mann, Kafka, Franz Kafka, Rilke
- Norse literaturesagas, Icelandic sagas, Norse sagas, kennings, Old Norse
- Persian poetryPersian poetry, masnavi, Hafiz, Rumi, Omar Khayyam
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