Authors that write with simplicity?

[youngsquire]

I am looking for authors that write with utter simplicity and brevity.

Writers like Ernest Hemingway or Raymond Carver.

Anyone have any suggestions?

[Lykren]

Yasunari Kawabata has a very spare style. Emily Dickinson is brief. Chekhov might be a good choice.

[Oedipus]

Remarque, Orwell, and Golding have simplicity.

[JBI]

simple and simplistic are different. Wordsworth is simple, Harry Potter is simplistic.

[kelby_lake]

Francois Sagan?

[readspider]

Cormac McCarthy - simple and bleak

[Iain Sparrow]

Isaac Asimov - unadorned, not much time spent on atmosphere and nuance. That's why I love reading him.

[Calidore]

Elmore Leonard's writing philosophy was based on simplicity and invisibility.

[chrisvia]

For brevity and simplicity that yet speaks volumes (à la Hemingway and Carver), check out Edouard Levé's Autoportrait.

http://www.amazon.fr/Autoportrait-Édouard-Levé-ebook/dp/B00F5W6CD2/

There is a good English translation, too, executed by the editor of the Paris Review.

[Emil Miller]

Francois Sagan?

Lucidity of style is the key to Sagan's writing but I'm not sure how she comes across in translation,
even having translated the ending to Bonjour Tristesse for a review of the novel on Litnet.

[HCabret]

Thoreau

[kelby_lake]

Lucidity of style is the key to Sagan's writing but I'm not sure how she comes across in translation,
even having translated the ending to Bonjour Tristesse for a review of the novel on Litnet.

The translated version of Bonjour Tristesse read very smoothly for me.