Posted by GEF on November 13, 2011 at 12:54:18:
In Reply to: Re: Lists of best new young novelist books posted by GEF on November 11, 2011 at 21:14:25:
: If Sarah Shun-lien Bynum isn't the best of the crop, I don't know who is. A skillful postmodern writer who has won many awards. She was a Nat Book Award finalist, and was the 2004 winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize.
: Her ability to describe a scene is so good it's startling.
Wow. You are right. I just looked her up. Here's a paragraph from her novel Madeleine Is Sleeping:
hush
When madeleine sleeps, Mother says, the cows give double their milk. Pansies sprout up between the floorboards. Your father loves me, but I remain slender and childless. I can hear the tumult of pears and apples falling from the trees like rain.
Smooth your sister’s coverlet. Arrange her hair on the pillowcase. Be silent as saints. We do not wish to wake her.
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: : The New Yorker and Granta Magazine have both had their say about which of the latest crop of young novelists are the best. What do you all think of their picks? Have they left anybody out?
: : Here is the New Yorker list:
: : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 32
: : Chris Adrian, 39
: : Daniel Alarcón, 33
: : David Bezmozgis, 37
: : Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, 38
: : Joshua Ferris, 35
: : Jonathan Safran Foer, 33
: : Nell Freudenberger, 35
: : Rivka Galchen, 34
: : Nicole Krauss, 35
: : Yiyun Li, 37
: : Dinaw Mengestu, 31
: : Philipp Meyer, 36
: : C. E. Morgan, 33
: : Téa Obreht, 24
: : Z Z Packer, 37
: : Karen Russell, 28
: : Salvatore Scibona, 35
: : Gary Shteyngart, 37
: : Wells Tower, 37
: : Granada Magazine has been picking what they see as the best young British writers for years. Here are their lists:
: : 1983
: : Martin Amis
: : William Boyd
: : Maggie Gee
: : Kazuo Ishiguro
: : Adam Mars-Jones
: : Salman Rushdie
: : Julian Barnes
: : Ursula Bentley
: : Pat Barker
: : Buchi Emecheta
: : Ian McEwan
: : Shiva Naipaul
: : Graham Swift
: : Rose Tremain
: : Clive Sinclair
: : Alan Judd
: : Philip Norman
: : A. N. Wilson
: : Christopher Priest
: : Lisa St Aubin de Terán
: :
: : 1993
: : Kazuo Ishiguro
: : Hanif Kureishi
: : Ben Okri
: : Esther Freud
: : Caryl Phillips
: : Will Self
: : Iain Banks
: : Adam Lively
: : Helen Simpson
: : Tibor Fischer
: : Nicholas Shakespeare
: : Philip Kerr
: : Lawrence Norfolk
: : Louis de Bernieres
: : A. L. Kennedy
: : Alan Hollinghurst
: : Candia McWilliam
: : Anne Billson
: : Adam Mars-Jones
: : Jeanette Winterson
: :
: : 2003
: : Monica Ali
: : Nicola Barker
: : Rachel Cusk
: : Peter Ho Davies
: : Susan Elderkin
: : Philip Hensher
: : A. L. Kennedy
: : Hari Kunzru
: : Toby Litt
: : David Mitchell
: : Andrew O'Hagan
: : David Peace
: : Dan Rhodes
: : Ben Rice
: : Rachel Seiffert
: : Zadie Smith
: : Adam Thirlwell
: : Alan Warner
: : Sarah Waters
: : Robert McLiam Wilson
: : And here is their list of the best young American novelists:
: : 1996
: : Sherman Alexie
: : Madison Smartt Bell
: : Ethan Canin
: : Edwidge Danticat
: : Tom Drury
: : Tony Earley
: : Jeffrey Eugenides
: : Jonathan Franzen
: : David Guterson
: : David Haynes
: : Allen Kurzweil
: : Elizabeth McCracken
: : Lorrie Moore
: : Fay Myenne Ng
: : Robert O'Connor
: : Chris Offutt
: : Stewart O'Nan
: : Mona Simpson
: : Melanie Rae Thon
: : Kate Wheeler
: :
: : 2007
: : Daniel Alarcon
: : Kevin Brockmeier
: : Judy Budnitz
: : Christopher Coake
: : Anthony Doerr
: : Jonathan Safran Foer
: : Nell Freudenberger
: : Olga Grushin
: : Dara Horn
: : Gabe Hudson
: : Uzodinma Iweala
: : Nicole Krauss
: : Rattawut Lapcharoensap
: : Yiyun Li
: : Maile Meloy
: : ZZ Packer
: : Jess Row
: : Karen Russell
: : Akhil Sharma
: : Gary Shteyngart
: : John Wray