Ben Okri

I read Ben Okri's The Famished Road years ago, soon after it won the Booker Prize in 1991. I even had the wonderful occasion to hear him speak and read from his novel. He had been invited to New Delhi by the British Council Division, New Delhi, and the Confederation for Indian Industry (CII) many years ago. When Okri read from his novel, I could feel the same magic that I felt when I read his book. I still remember that he spoke of 'transaction the commerce of words'. I loved the phrase and remember it even now though there are some of my ossified colleagues who find it abominable to mix literature with commerce in one phrase. :)

Great British Writers Since 1945

I found a very interesting blog post about the greatest British writers since 1945 and I quote below:

The Times list of the Greatest British Writers Since 1945 caught my eye recently and I’ve been slowly working my way through the massive amount of information on the authors and their works. The list consists of 50 British authors, but only eleven of them are familiar to me (Orwell, Tolkien, Lewis, Murdoch, Rushdie, Fleming, Byatt, McEwan, Rowling, Pullman and Sutcliff). Perhaps if I was British I would know more of them? It would be interesting to know what kind of a list people outside of England would come up with and how it would compare.

The link for the post is http://bibliophilist.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/link-great-british-writers/

Introduction

The term 'British writers' could mean just about anything. It could even mean Geoffrey Chaucer and it could mean William Shakespeare. However, this website would endeavor to talk about recent writers who have become sensations and who have made Britain their new home.