Ali Smith
Scottish author, playwright, academic and journalist
21st-century british short story writers
Zadie Smith
English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer
A. S. Byatt
English novelist, poet and Booker Prize winner, and won the 2017 Park Kyong-ni Prize
Ronald Blythe
British writer, essayist and editor, best known for his work Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village , an account of agricultural life in Suffolk from the turn of the century to the 1960s
J. G. Ballard
English novelist, short story writer, satirist, and essayist who first became associated with the New Wave of science fiction for his post-apocalyptic novels such as The Drowned World . In the late 1960s, he produced a variety of experimental short stories , such as those collected in the controversial The Atrocity Exhibition . In the mid-1970s, Ballard published several novels, among them the highly controversial Crash , a story about car crash fetishism, and High-Rise , a depiction of a luxury apartment building’s descent into violent chaos