List of postmodern writers

This is a list of postmodern authors.

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Contents:

* Top
* 0–9
* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* X
* Y
* Z

## A

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* Kathy Acker
* Peter Ackroyd
* Edward Albee
* Anna Alchuk
* Isabel Allende
* Martin Amis
* Gloria E. Anzaldúa
* Yuri Arabov
* Alberto Arbasino
* Fernando Arrabal
* John Ashbery
* Oğuz Atay
* Yusuf Atılgan
* Margaret Atwood
* Paul Auster

## B

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* J. G. Ballard
* John Banville
* Amiri Baraka
* Julian Barnes
* José Baroja
* John Barth
* Donald Barthelme
* Samuel Beckett
* Saul Bellow
* John Berryman
* Andrei Bitov
* Roberto Bolaño
* María Luisa Bombal
* Jorge Luis Borges
* T. Coraghessan Boyle
* Giannina Braschi
* Richard Brautigan
* Michael Brodsky
* Christine Brooke-Rose
* Nicole Brossard
* Pascal Bruckner
* Gesualdo Bufalino
* Charles Bukowski[1]
* Zaza Burchuladze
* Anthony Burgess
* William S. Burroughs
* Michel Butor
* A.S. Byatt

## C

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* Pat Cadigan
* Italo Calvino
* Elias Canetti
* Mary Caponegro
* Angela Carter
* Raymond Carver
* Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
* Michael Chabon
* Caryl Churchill
* Hélène Cixous
* Chris Cleave
* J. M. Coetzee
* Brendan Connell
* Vincenzo Consolo
* Robert Coover
* Julio Cortázar
* Douglas Coupland
* John Crowley
* Mitch Cullin

## D

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* Mark Z Danielewski
* Evan Dara
* Stefano D'Arrigo
* Lydia Davis
* Samuel R. Delany
* Don DeLillo
* Junot Diaz
* Philip K. Dick
* E. L. Doctorow
* J. P. Donleavy
* Sergei Dovlatov
* Margaret Drabble
* Arkadii Dragomoshchenko
* Marguerite Duras
* Bob Dylan

## E

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* Umberto Eco
* Dave Eggers
* T.S. Eliot
* Mikhail Elizarov
* Bret Easton Ellis[2]
* Louise Erdrich
* Péter Esterházy

## F

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* Dan Fante
* Raymond Federman
* Amanda Filipacchi
* Dario Fo
* Jonathan Safran Foer
* Jonathan Franzen
* Carlos Fuentes
* Richard Foreman

## G

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* Carlo Emilio Gadda
* William Gaddis
* Neil Gaiman
* William H. Gass
* Dumitru Găleșanu
* Eckhard Gerdes
* William Gibson
* Allen Ginsberg
* John Giorno
* Dmitry Glukhovsky
* William Golding
* Nadine Gordimer
* Hedwig Gorski
* Jorie Graham
* Alasdair Gray
* Michael Grothaus
* Andrei Gusev

## H

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* Jessica Hagedorn
* John Hawkes
* Brenda Hillman
* Siri Hustvedt
* Joseph Heller

## I

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* Luce Iragaray
* John Irving
* Robert Irwin
* Christopher Isherwood
* Kazuo Ishiguro

## J

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* Shelley Jackson
* Marlon James
* B. S. Johnson
* Lawrence Joseph

## K

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* Metin Kaçan
* Ismail Kadare
* Richard Kalich
* Igor Kholin
* Reza Khoshnazar
* Danilo Kis
* Julia Kissina
* Christian Kracht
* László Krasznahorkai
* Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
* Milan Kundera
* Tony Kushner
* Jack Kerouac
* Ken Kesey

## L

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* Wally Lamb
* Doris Lessing
* Mark Leyner
* José Lezama Lima
* Eduard Limonov
* Tao Lin
* Clarice Lispector
* Patricia Lockwood
* Robert Ludlum
* Dimitris Lyacos
* Dominic Lyne
* Jonathan Lethem

## M

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* Claudio Magris
* Dacia Maraini
* David Markson
* Gabriel García Márquez
* Yann Martel
* Carole Maso
* Cormac McCarthy
* Tom McCarthy
* Joseph McElroy
* Jon McGregor
* Czeslaw Milosz
* Yukio Mishima
* Alan Moore
* Grant Morrison
* Toni Morrison
* Alice Munro
* Haruki Murakami

## N

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* Vladimir Nabokov
* Maggie Nelson
* Charu Nivedita
* Jeff Noon
* Alice Notley

## O

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* Tim O'Brien
* Flannery O'Connor
* Michael Ondaatje
* Amos Oz

## P

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* Chuck Palahniuk
* Orhan Pamuk
* Suzan-Lori Parks
* Nicanor Parra
* Alexei Parshchikov
* Milorad Pavić
* Victor Pelevin
* Georges Perec
* Lyudmila Petrushevskaya
* Cecile Pineda
* Richard Powers
* Terry Pratchett
* Dmitry Prigov
* Alexander Prokhanov
* Thomas Pynchon[3][4]

## Q

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* Rexhep Qosja
* Raymond Queneau
* Ann Quin

## R

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* Ishmael Reed
* Adrienne Rich
* Tom Robbins
* Philip Roth
* Lev Rubinstein
* Salman Rushdie
* Joanna Russ

## S

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* Nina Sadur
* Mark SaFranko
* J. D. Salinger
* José Saramago
* Nathalie Sarraute
* George Saunders
* Ann Scott
* Will Self
* Elif Shafak
* Vladimir Sharov
* Elena Shvarts
* Leslie Marmon Silko
* Charles Simic
* Isaac Bashevis Singer
* Zadie Smith
* Sasha Sokolov
* Vladimir Sorokin
* Art Spiegelman
* Neal Stephenson
* Ali Smith

## T

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* James Tiptree Jr. (a.k.a Alice Sheldon)
* Olga Tokarczuk
* Tatyana Tolstaya
* Pier Vittorio Tondelli
* Hasan Ali Toptaş
* Michel Tournier
* David Trinidad
* Anne Tyler

## V

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* Enrique Vila-Matas
* William T. Vollmann
* Kurt Vonnegut

## W

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* David Foster Wallace
* D. Harlan Wilson
* Jeanette Winterson

## Y

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* Venedikt Yerofeyev
* Viktor Yerofeyev
* Marguerite Young
* Kim Young-ha

## Z

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* Yilin Zhong

## See also

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* List of postmodern critics
* List of postmodern novels
* Postmodern literature

## References

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1. ^ David Charlson, "Charles Bukowski: Autobiographer, Gender Critic, Iconoclast", Trafford, 6 February 2006 ISBN 978-1-41205-966-4
2. ^ Sabine Buchholz, "At the edge of art and insanity': Postmodern elements in Bret Easton Ellis' "American Psycho"", GRIN Verlag, 24 Jan. 2008 ISBN 978-3-638-90456-8
3. ^ Lea Jones, Deborah (1985). Postmodernist Allegory: The Works of Thomas Pynchon. University of Adelaide, Department of English.
4. ^ Haen, Theo d'; Bertens, Johannes Willem (1997). 'Closing the Gap': American Postmodern Fiction in Germany, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands. Rodopi. p. 250\. ISBN 978-90-420-0307-1.