Who are your favourite contemporary and traditional authors. One contemporary and one traditional from each country of your choice.
UK. Jane Austen - Michael Morpurgo
USA. Nathaniel Hawthorne - Sharon Creech
I struggle to think of pairs of authors from other countries.
*Ever read any Bret Easton Ellis? He's good...
Hunter S Thompson is real good. He is totally cool with his sort-of-biography funny stuff. But, then there's Gaston Leroux, Oscar Wilde and Victor Hugo.
Also, WP Blatty and Susan Hill are quite cool.
Ummm.....so, yeah, that's it really.
Except, you know, CHRISTOPHER PRIEST! He is by far the best.......
(Sorry if that didn't help).
NJ
England Charles Dickens and Terry Pratchett
US Mark Twain and Stephen King
France Honoré de Balzac and Gustave Flaubert
Russia Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Scotland Walter Scott and Nigel Tranter
apologies to all other countries whose authors I haven't latched on to;
apologies also for fact that the second choice in each row, the contemporary selection, may also be deceased too!