News at Eleven: 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

from The Times: The 50 greatest British writers since 1945
also The Times: Kingsley Amis
also The Times: George Mackay Brown
also The Times: Angela Carter
also The Times: Geoffrey Hill
also The Times: Ted Hughes
also The Times: Philip Larkin
also The Times: Alice Oswald
also The Times: Mervyn Peake
also The Times: Muriel Spark
also The Times: Derek Walcott
also The Times: Benjamin Zephaniah

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