your favourite english author

[Panflute]

Dickens. I don't know if I will be able to read anything else (novel-wise), before I've read all of his novels.

[Nossa]

Jane Austen and Oscar Wilde (well he's Irish I know...but close enough..lol)

[Aunty-lion]

I haven't seen it. I'll try to watch it sometime this May. I'm interested in Spanish Civil War in general, but I haven't seen any movies about it (I'll probably watch "Pan's labyrinth" pretty soon)

Yeah, I went to see that the other day. It was fantastic, but very gruesome.

[morgane]

I would say that my favourite contemporary English author is Kazuo Ishiguro (I think he is British, although with Japanese origins): I simply lve his novels and especially the way he writes. His mastery of language is a delight for the reader.
But in a thread concerning English authors, I cannot not mention Jane Austen and the Brontë sisters, my all-time favourites!

[manolia]

Dickens. I don't know if I will be able to read anything else (novel-wise), before I've read all of his novels.

Dickens for me too! And i have the same resolution (to read all his books).

[LizB]

In no particular order...

Older: Orwell, Greene, Hardy, Kipling, Austen

Newer: Rushdie (probably doesn't count), Ishiguro (should count),

Children/young adult: Philip Pullman, Celia Rees, Berlie Doherty, Dick King-Smith

[kathycf]

C. S. Lewis, Tolkien, Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, P.G. Wodehouse. For more modern I like P. D. James for mysteries, also Minette Walters is a very good suspense/mystery writer.

[Niamh]

Jonathan Swift

Born in Dublin, spent a while as a dean in England before returning to Ireland. Was the Dean of St Patricks cathedral when he was writing his works.

Wilde, Shakespeare

Wilde is also Irish.

hello everybody!
who is you favourite english writer? or if you don't have a favourite one, which english writers to you prefere to read?

So basiclly just from England? So R.L.Stevenson and Conan Doyle dont count because they are scottish.

Tennyson, Shakespeare, Austen, Pulman? Sue Townsend. Sure there is more but i'm trying to sieve through autors to make sure they are English.

[Niamh]

Jane Austen and Oscar Wilde (well he's Irish I know...but close enough..lol)

but not that close!

[jewells]

I really like Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Daniel Defoe, J.R.R. Tolkien, Salman Rushdie, Philip Pullman, The Brontes, Virginia Woolf, Douglas Adams, and so on...

But Dickens is definately my favorite.

[Niamh]

how did i forget Doughlas Adams!

[AChristieFan]

My favorite English author is J.R.R. Tolkien by far!

[PeterL]

Tom Holt makes the top of the list. Jonathan Swift was almost as good. Tolkien and Lord Dunsany are high on the list also.

In some ways Swift was superior to Holt, but Swift's humor was sometimes too refined.

[kilted exile]

It would have to be dickens, spending last year reading all his stuff was definetely well spent


On another note it seems quite a few people have trouble with the concept of what exactly england is - no it is not Scotland, Wales, or either part of the split island of ireland. These places are as english as germany is danish.

[Schokokeks]

Mine would be Shakespeare .

On another note it seems quite a few people have trouble with the concept of what exactly england is - no it is not Scotland, Wales, or either part of the split island of ireland. These places are as english as germany is danish.

You should say "as Germany is Austrian", since the majority in both countries speak the same language, if in a different varity; after all, you can't claim Scottish English is as far from English as German is from Danish .
But I think schools are to blame, at least the non-British ones. In my English lessons past, nobody even bothered about distinguishing England from Britain .