Authors that write with simplicity?

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

Writers like Ernest Hemingway or Raymond Carver.

Anyone have any suggestions?

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

Remarque, Orwell, and Golding have simplicity.

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

Francois Sagan?

Cormac McCarthy - simple and bleak

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

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

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

http://www.amazon.fr/Autoportrait-Éd...dp/B00F5W6CD2/

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

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Originally Posted by kelby_lake

Francois Sagan?

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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.

Thoreau

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Originally Posted by Emil Miller

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.

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