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20th-century British short story writers

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Salman Rushdie
Indian-born British-American novelist (born 1947)
Roald Dahl
British writer and poet (1916–1990)
Jerome K. Jerome
English humorist (1859-1927)
Dylan Thomas
Welsh poet and writer (1914–1953)
Jhumpa Lahiri
American author of Indian origin (born 1967)
Ian McEwan
British author (born 1948)
A. S. Byatt
British writer (1936–2023)
A. J. Cronin
Scottish novelist (1896–1981)
Irvine Welsh
Scottish writer
Jean Rhys
British novelist (1890–1979)
Elizabeth Bowen
Anglo-Irish novelist and diarist (1899–1973)
Rafael Sabatini
Italian–English writer (1875–1950)
Emma Orczy
Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright (1865-1947)
Susanna Clarke
British author (1959-)
Graham Swift
English writer (born 1949)
Joanne Harris
British and French author
John Brunner
British author (1934–1995)
Angus Wilson
British author (1913–1991)
James Kelman
Scottish writer
G. D. H. Cole
British historian, economist, writer (1889-1959)
David Garnett
British writer and publisher (1892-1981)
John Mortimer
British barrister, dramatist, screenwriter and author (1923-2009)
Richard Hughes
British writer (1900–1976)
Robert Holdstock
British fantasy and science fiction author (1948-2009)
Harold Acton
British writer and scholar (1904–1994)
Charles Williams
British poet, novelist, theologian, literary critic, and member of the Inklings (1886–1945)
Anna Kavan
British novelist, short story writer, and painter (1901–1968)
E. R. Eddison
British writer (1882-1945)
Peter Lovesey
British writer
Tibor Fischer
British-Hungarian writer
Katharine Burdekin
British novelist (1896–1963)
Ethel Lina White
British writer (1876–1944)
Hope Mirrlees
British poet, novelist, and translator (1887–1978)
Stella Benson
British writer (1892–1933)
V. S. Pritchett
British writer and critic (1900–1997)
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener (1925–2006)
Jakov Lind
Austrian-British writer (1927-2007)
H. E. Bates
British writer (1905–1974)
William John Locke
British writer (1863–1930)
Adrian Conan Doyle
English scion and writer (1910–1970)
Pauline Melville
Guyanese writer
Robert Irwin
British historian, novelist, and writer on Arabic literature (1946–2024)
Graham Joyce
British writer (1954–2014)
John Collier
British writer (1901-1980)
Colin Kapp
British author
James Hanley
British novelist (1897-1985)
Rhys Davies
Welsh novelist (1901-1978)
J. I. M. Stewart
British author, critic and academic (1906-1994)
Phyllis Bottome
British writer (1884–1963)
Kenneth Bulmer
British SF&F writer (1921–2005)
Ella D'Arcy
British short story writer (1857-1937)
S. Fowler Wright
writer, editor, poet
Gerald Kersh
British writer (1911–1968)
Edward Upward
British writer (1903–2009)
Cherith Baldry
writer of fantasy fiction
Garry Kilworth
British writer (born 1941)
Jamal Mahjoub
British Sudanese writer
Alan Caillou
British actor and writer (1914-2006)
H. M. Tomlinson
British writer (1873-1958)
Tessa Hadley
British author of novels, short stories and non-fiction