A fun question.
Who would make your favourite top ten list of contemporary authors.
I found it difficult to select ten favourite authors. You can pick less than ten in any order of preference
My list is as follows.
1st. Michael Morpurgo
Joint second place.
Joanne Harris
Eva Ibottson
Sharon Creech
Malorie Blackman
Geraldine McCaughrean
Joint third place.
Philip Pullman
Anne Fine
Gillian Cross
Kevin Crossley Holland
Not sure what the sell by date is with regard to contemporary, but here goes, my top 3
1. Haruki Murakami
2. Jim Dodge
3. Paul Auster
Paul Bowles and William Faulkner would make my all time list but I don't think they are contemporary.