Posted by Ted on October 29, 2011 at 16:02:53:
The New Yorker and Granta Magazine have both had their say about which of the latest crop of young novelists are the best. What do you all think of their picks? Have they left anybody out?
Here is the New Yorker list:
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 32
Chris Adrian, 39
Daniel Alarcón, 33
David Bezmozgis, 37
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, 38
Joshua Ferris, 35
Jonathan Safran Foer, 33
Nell Freudenberger, 35
Rivka Galchen, 34
Nicole Krauss, 35
Yiyun Li, 37
Dinaw Mengestu, 31
Philipp Meyer, 36
C. E. Morgan, 33
Téa Obreht, 24
Z Z Packer, 37
Karen Russell, 28
Salvatore Scibona, 35
Gary Shteyngart, 37
Wells Tower, 37
Granada Magazine has been picking what they see as the best young British writers for years. Here are their lists:
1983
Martin Amis
William Boyd
Maggie Gee
Kazuo Ishiguro
Adam Mars-Jones
Salman Rushdie
Julian Barnes
Ursula Bentley
Pat Barker
Buchi Emecheta
Ian McEwan
Shiva Naipaul
Graham Swift
Rose Tremain
Clive Sinclair
Alan Judd
Philip Norman
A. N. Wilson
Christopher Priest
Lisa St Aubin de Terán
1993
Kazuo Ishiguro
Hanif Kureishi
Ben Okri
Esther Freud
Caryl Phillips
Will Self
Iain Banks
Adam Lively
Helen Simpson
Tibor Fischer
Nicholas Shakespeare
Philip Kerr
Lawrence Norfolk
Louis de Bernieres
A. L. Kennedy
Alan Hollinghurst
Candia McWilliam
Anne Billson
Adam Mars-Jones
Jeanette Winterson
2003
Monica Ali
Nicola Barker
Rachel Cusk
Peter Ho Davies
Susan Elderkin
Philip Hensher
A. L. Kennedy
Hari Kunzru
Toby Litt
David Mitchell
Andrew O'Hagan
David Peace
Dan Rhodes
Ben Rice
Rachel Seiffert
Zadie Smith
Adam Thirlwell
Alan Warner
Sarah Waters
Robert McLiam Wilson
And here is their list of the best young American novelists:
1996
Sherman Alexie
Madison Smartt Bell
Ethan Canin
Edwidge Danticat
Tom Drury
Tony Earley
Jeffrey Eugenides
Jonathan Franzen
David Guterson
David Haynes
Allen Kurzweil
Elizabeth McCracken
Lorrie Moore
Fay Myenne Ng
Robert O'Connor
Chris Offutt
Stewart O'Nan
Mona Simpson
Melanie Rae Thon
Kate Wheeler
2007
Daniel Alarcon
Kevin Brockmeier
Judy Budnitz
Christopher Coake
Anthony Doerr
Jonathan Safran Foer
Nell Freudenberger
Olga Grushin
Dara Horn
Gabe Hudson
Uzodinma Iweala
Nicole Krauss
Rattawut Lapcharoensap
Yiyun Li
Maile Meloy
ZZ Packer
Jess Row
Karen Russell
Akhil Sharma
Gary Shteyngart
John Wray