The 50 greatest British writers since 1945 |
| 2008 |
| Rank | Item |
|---|---|
| 1 | Philip Larkin |
| 2 | George Orwell |
| 3 | William Golding |
| 4 | Ted Hughes |
| 5 | Doris Lessing |
| 6 | J. R. R. Tolkien |
| 7 | V.S. Naipaul |
| 8 | Muriel Spark |
| 9 | Kingsley Amis |
| 10 | Angela Carter |
| 11 | C. S. Lewis |
| 12 | Iris Murdoch |
| 13 | Salman Rushdie |
| 14 | Ian Fleming |
| 15 | Jan Morris |
| 16 | Roald Dahl |
| 17 | Anthony Burgess |
| 18 | Mervyn Peake |
| 19 | Martin Amis |
| 20 | Anthony Powell |
| 21 | Alan Sillitoe |
| 22 | John le Carré |
| 23 | Penelope Fitzgerald |
| 24 | Philippa Pearce |
| 25 | Barbara Pym |
| 26 | Beryl Bainbridge |
| 27 | J. G. Ballard |
| 28 | Alan Garner |
| 29 | Alasdair Gray |
| 30 | John Fowles |
| 31 | Derek Walcott |
| 32 | Kazuo Ishiguro |
| 33 | Anita Brookner |
| 34 | A. S. Byatt |
| 35 | Ian McEwan |
| 36 | Geoffrey Hill |
| 37 | Hanif Kureishi |
| 38 | Iain Banks |
| 39 | George Mackay Brown |
| 40 | A. J. P. Taylor |
| 41 | Isaiah Berlin |
| 42 | J. K. Rowling |
| 43 | Philip Pullman |
| 44 | Julian Barnes |
| 45 | Colin Thubron |
| 46 | Bruce Chatwin |
| 47 | Alice Oswald |
| 48 | Benjamin Zephaniah |
| 49 | Rosemary Sutcliff |
| 50 | Michael Moorcock |
