21ST CENTURY

• Miguel Syjuco - Ilustrado (Experimental Novel), offers a glimpse of Philippine History
• Bi Feiyu - Three Sisters, the portrayal of female psyche
• Shin Kyungsook - Please Look After Mother, psychological depths of the human mind
• Govind Vinayak Karandikar - The Wheel, various shades of human nature (Jnanpith award)
• Yosuke Tanaka - A Day When the Mountains are Visible, sense of humour, sensitivity to nature, and awareness of the legacy of the japanese literary tradition
• James Brendan Patterson - The Thomas Berryman Number, thriller and suspense novels, bestseller of 67 total
• Nicholas Sparks - The Choice, The Longest Ride, The Best of Me, Safe Haven, The Lucky one, Message in a Bottle, A walk to Remember, The Notebook, Nights in Rodanthe, Dear John, The Last Song, king of contemporary romance fiction
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in Time of Cholera, Autumn of the Patriarch
• Carlos Fuentes Macias - The Death of Artemio Cruz, Terra Nostra, The Old Gringo
• Mario Vargas Llosa - The Notebook of Don Rigoberto, The Feast of the Boat, The Bad Girl
• Julia Alvarez - examine cultural expectations of women, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, In The Time Of The Butterflies, Yo!
• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Purple Hibiscus, Americanah
• Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
• Ayi Kwei Armah - political devastation and social frustration, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
• Mariama Ba - powerful feminist texts, So Long A Letter
• Nuruddin Farah - social criticism, dealing with themes of war and post-colonial identity, From A Crooked Rib
• Speculative Fiction - a fiction in which the author speculates assumes upon the results of changing what's real or possible, not hoe a character would react to a certain event. (The Hunger Games)
• Graphic Novel - a book in which a narrative is conveyed with the sequential art and a book written and illustrated in the style of a comic book. (Dracula)
• Young adult fiction - fiction is written for readers from 12-18 years of age. These genres are expansive and inclide most of those found in adult fiction. (The fault in our stars)
• Chick lit - concentrating on young women and their emotional lives. (the devil wears prada)
• Fan fiction - about characters from an original work of fiction, created by fans of that work (twilight.)
• Wattpad - an internet community for readers and writers to publish new user-generated stories in different genres.
• John Smith - started american literature
• Mark Twain (Samuel Lenghorne Celemens) - Father of American Literature
• Washington Irving - contemporary american shory story
• the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize - Miguel Syjuco
• Man Booker Prize for Asian Literature in 2010 - Bi Feiyu
• Man Asian Literary Prize in 2012, amongst the most highly regarded contemporary writers. - Shin Kyungsook
• An Indian poet, writer, literary critic, and translator in the Marathi-language - Govind Karandikar
• has published two poetry books - Yosuke Tanaka
• the first author to have No. 1 new titles simultaneously on The New York Times adult and children's bestsellers lists, and to have two books on Novel Tracker’s top-ten list at the same time. - James Patterson
• has published twenty-one novels and two non-fiction books - Nicholas Sparks
• He won the 2006 Printz Award for his debut novel, Looking for Alaska ; his fourth solo novel, The Fault in Our Stars, debuted at number one on The New York Times Best Seller list in January 2012 - John Green
• He intended to become an Episcopal priest, but his experiences of working in a hospital with children suffering from life-threatening illnesses inspired him to become an author - John Green
• one of Time magazine's most influential people of 2010. - Suzanne Collins
• the greatest poet of the 21st century - Billy Collins
• world’s first billionaire author according to Forbes; “Most Influential Woman in Britain.” - Joanne Rowling
• graduated with a degree in English in 1970; King of Horror - Stephen King
• British writer who earned critical praise and popular success with richly imagined fantasy tales that frequently features a darkly humorous tone. - Neil Gaiman
• He is known for his international bestselling series of epic fantasy novels, A Song of Ice and Fire and later adapted into the Home Box Office (HBO) dramatic series of Game of Thrones (2011) - George Martin