Easy-english writers.

[grigioverde]

Hi everyone.

Could you please suggest me some english writer easy to read (better if he wrote short stories)?

[Frédéric Moreau]

Hi everyone.

Could you please suggest me some english writer easy to read (better if he wrote short stories)?

I would suggest reading Edgar Allan Poe. I guess that you are Italian, the vocabulary and grammar of Poe is easier for an speaker of a Romance language than a current novel, full of phrasal verbs and slang. Conceptually it may seem easier to take up, for instance, Dan Brown or Grisham, but in fact it is more difficult for a Romance language speaker to understand the text. The first fiction text I read in English was The pit and the pendulum -in September of 2013- and I found it easy, having months before struggled to understand some novels by Paul Auster. Gradually, I obtained vocabulary and I ventured with Conrad, after Nostromo I can read almost anything in the language of Shakespeare.

[Lykren]

Hemingway, Raymond Carver.

[grigioverde]

Thanks.

[kev67]

Rudyard Kipling.

[wordeater]

Short stories by Roald Dahl, E. A. Poe, A. C. Doyle, H. G. Wells...

[Marbles]

George Orwell leaves nothing to flights of fancy. He is simple and direct but his are full length novels.

[Nick91]

Have to agree on Hemingway. He let simple words do heavy lifting, and he wrote A LOT of short stories. I'd also suggest that you try reading something that seems a bit difficult at first, it's a great way to get better at reading (and speaking for that matter) english. English isn't my first language either, and I've found that giving yourself a challenge is the surest way to progress.

What kind of literature (themes, genres etc.) do you like to read? If you could narrow it down for us, we might come up with something more.

[Calidore]

For more modern stuff, try Elmore Leonard. His writing philosophy was to keep the story moving and stay as invisible as possible.

[grigioverde]

What kind of literature (themes, genres etc.) do you like to read? If you could narrow it down for us, we might come up with something more.

I'm a versatile reader, so I like bot realistic and fanciful works (f.e. among the first: Zola, Woolf, Verga, Tolstoj and among the second: Borges, Calvino etc..).