List of postmodern writers

This is a list of postmodern authors.

A

• Kathy Acker
• Peter Ackroyd
• Edward Albee
• Isabel Allende
• Martin Amis
• Gloria E. Anzaldúa
• Alberto Arbasino
• Fernando Arrabal
• John Ashbery
• Oğuz Atay
• Yusuf Atılgan
• Margaret Atwood
• Paul Auster

B

• J. G. Ballard
• John Banville
• Amiri Baraka
• Julian Barnes
• José Baroja
• John Barth
• Donald Barthelme
• Samuel Beckett
• Saul Bellow
• John Berryman
• Andrei Bitov
• Roberto Bolaño
• María Luisa Bombal
• Jorge Luis Borges
• T. Coraghessan Boyle
• Giannina Braschi
• Richard Brautigan
• Michael Brodsky
• Christine Brooke-Rose
• Nicole Brossard
• Pascal Bruckner
• Gesualdo Bufalino
• Charles Bukowski
• Zaza Burchuladze
• Anthony Burgess
• William S. Burroughs
• Michel Butor
• A.S. Byatt

C

• Pat Cadigan
• Italo Calvino
• Elias Canetti
• Mary Caponegro
• Angela Carter
• Raymond Carver
• Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
• Michael Chabon
• Caryl Churchill
• Hélène Cixous
• Chris Cleave
• John Maxwell Coetzee
• Brendan Connell
• Vincenzo Consolo
• Robert Coover
• Julio Cortázar
• Douglas Coupland
• John Crowley
• Mitch Cullin

D

• Mark Z Danielewski
• Evan Dara
• Stefano D'Arrigo
• Lydia Davis
• Samuel R. Delany
• Don DeLillo
• Junot Diaz
• Philip K. Dick
• E. L. Doctorow
• J. P. Donleavy
• Margaret Drabble
• Marguerite Duras
• Bob Dylan

E

• Umberto Eco
• Dave Eggers
• T.S. Eliot
• Bret Easton Ellis
• Louise Erdrich
• Péter Esterházy

F

• Dan Fante
• Raymond Federman
• Amanda Filipacchi
• Dario Fo
• Jonathan Safran Foer
• Jonathan Franzen
• Carlos Fuentes
• Richard Foreman

G

• Carlo Emilio Gadda
• William Gaddis
• Neil Gaiman
• William H. Gass
• Eckhard Gerdes
• William Gibson
• Allen Ginsberg
• John Giorno
• William Golding
• Nadine Gordimer
• Hedwig Gorski
• Jorie Graham
• Alasdair Gray
• Michael Grothaus
• Andrei Gusev

H

• Jessica Hagedorn
• John Hawkes
• Brenda Hillman
• Siri Hustvedt
• Joseph Heller

I

• Luce Iragaray
• John Irving
• Robert Irwin
• Christopher Isherwood
• Kazuo Ishiguro

J

• Shelley Jackson
• Marlon James
• B. S. Johnson
• Lawrence Joseph

K

• Metin Kaçan
• Ismail Kadare
• Richard Kalich
• Reza Khoshnazar
• Danilo Kis
• Christian Kracht
• László Krasznahorkai
• Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
• Milan Kundera
• Tony Kushner
• Jack Kerouac

L

• Wally Lamb
• Doris Lessing
• Mark Leyner
• José Lezama Lima
• Eduard Limonov
• Tao Lin
• Clarice Lispector
• Patricia Lockwood
• Robert Ludlum
• Dimitris Lyacos
• Dominic Lyne
• Jonathan Lethem

M

• Claudio Magris
• Dacia Maraini
• David Markson
• Gabriel García Márquez
• Yann Martel
• Carole Maso
• Cormac McCarthy
• Tom McCarthy
• Joseph McElroy
• Jon McGregor
• Czeslaw Milosz
• Yukio Mishima
• Alan Moore
• Grant Morrison
• Toni Morrison
• Alice Munro
• Haruki Murakami

N

• Vladimir Nabokov
• Maggie Nelson
• Charu Nivedita
• Jeff Noon
• Alice Notley

O

• Tim O'Brien
• Flannery O'Connor
• Michael Ondaatje
• Amos Oz

P

• Chuck Palahniuk
• Orhan Pamuk
• Suzan-Lori Parks
• Nicanor Parra
• Milorad Pavić
• Victor Pelevin
• Georges Perec
• Cecile Pineda
• Richard Powers
• Terry Pratchett
• Dmitry Prigov
• Thomas Pynchon

Q

• Rexhep Qosja
• Raymond Queneau
• Ann Quin

R

• Ishmael Reed
• Adrienne Rich
• Tom Robbins
• Philip Roth
• Salman Rushdie
• Joanna Russ

S

• Mark SaFranko
• J. D. Salinger
• José Saramago
• Nathalie Sarraute
• George Saunders
• Ann Scott
• Will Self
• Elif Shafak
• Leslie Marmon Silko
• Charles Simic
• Isaac Bashevis Singer
• Zadie Smith
• Sasha Sokolov
• Vladimir Sorokin
• Art Spiegelman
• Neal Stephenson
• Ali Smith

T

• James Tiptree Jr. (aka Alice Sheldon)
• Pier Vittorio Tondelli
• Hasan Ali Toptaş
• Michel Tournier
• David Trinidad
• Anne Tyler
• Olga Tokarczuk

V

• Enrique Vila-Matas
• William T. Vollmann
• Kurt Vonnegut

W

• David Foster Wallace
• D. Harlan Wilson
• Jeanette Winterson

Y

• Venedikt Yerofeyev
• Marguerite Young
• Kim Young-ha

Z

• Yilin Zhong

See also

• List of postmodern critics
• List of postmodern novels
• Postmodern literature

References

1. List of postmodern novels
2. Postmodern literature
3. List of postmodern critics
4. List of Russian-language writers
5. Postmodernism
6. List of modernist writers
7. List of Canadian writers
8. Postmodern architecture
9. Lists of writers
10. List of British Jewish writers
11. YIIK: A Postmodern RPG
12. Vladimir Sorokin
13. Kurt Vonnegut bibliography
14. List of non-fiction writers
15. Caribbean literature
16. List of 20th-century American writers by birth year
17. Short story
18. William S. Burroughs bibliography
19. Sokal affair
20. Postmodernism in China