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.
George Orwell, G. K Chesterton, Richard Bach .... too many to list.
Good question!
UK - George Orwell (maybe Emily Bronte) and David Almond
Japan - Murakami and (though I don't think he counts as especially traditional) Yukio Mishima
US - Hm. More of a blind spot here. Tennessee Williams and Edgar Allan Poe for classics, but for contemporary I'm not sure!
India : -
Traditional - R.K. Narayan & Kalki Krishnamurthy
Contemporary - Anees Jung & Arundhati Roy(I would add APJ Abdul Kalam too)