Robert
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Gabriel García Márquez's seminal novel One Hundred Years of Solitude is the piece of writing that has most shaped world literature over the past 25 years, according to a survey of international writers.
The Wasafiri list:
1 Aminatta Forna: The Famished Road by Ben Okri
2 Amit Chaudhuri: Collected Poems by Elizabeth Bishop
3 Bernardine Evaristo: Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain by Peter Fryer
4 Beverley Naidoo: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D Taylor
5 Blake Morrison: The Stories of Raymond Carver by Raymond Carver
6 Brian Chikwava: The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
7 Chika Unigwe: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
8 Daljit Nagra: North by Seamus Heaney
9 David Dabydeen: A House for Mr Biswas by VS Naipaul
10 Elaine Feinstein: Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
11 Fred D'Aguiar: Palace of the Peacock by Wilson Harris
12 Hirsh Sawhney: River of Fire by Quarratulain Hyder
13 Indra Sinha: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
14 John Haynes: Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
15 Lesley Lokko: Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
16 Maggie Gee: Disgrace by JM Coetzee
17 Marina Warner: Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
18 Maya Jaggi: The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
19 Michael Horovitz: Collected Poems by Allen Ginsberg
20 Minoli Salgado: Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
21 Nii Parkes: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
22 Roger Robinson: Sula by Toni Morrison
23 Sujata Bhatt: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
24 Sukhdev Sandhu: The Private Life of Chairman Mao by Dr Li Zhisui
25 Tabish Khair: The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Comments?
The Wasafiri list:
1 Aminatta Forna: The Famished Road by Ben Okri
2 Amit Chaudhuri: Collected Poems by Elizabeth Bishop
3 Bernardine Evaristo: Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain by Peter Fryer
4 Beverley Naidoo: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D Taylor
5 Blake Morrison: The Stories of Raymond Carver by Raymond Carver
6 Brian Chikwava: The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
7 Chika Unigwe: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
8 Daljit Nagra: North by Seamus Heaney
9 David Dabydeen: A House for Mr Biswas by VS Naipaul
10 Elaine Feinstein: Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
11 Fred D'Aguiar: Palace of the Peacock by Wilson Harris
12 Hirsh Sawhney: River of Fire by Quarratulain Hyder
13 Indra Sinha: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
14 John Haynes: Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
15 Lesley Lokko: Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
16 Maggie Gee: Disgrace by JM Coetzee
17 Marina Warner: Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
18 Maya Jaggi: The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
19 Michael Horovitz: Collected Poems by Allen Ginsberg
20 Minoli Salgado: Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
21 Nii Parkes: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
22 Roger Robinson: Sula by Toni Morrison
23 Sujata Bhatt: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
24 Sukhdev Sandhu: The Private Life of Chairman Mao by Dr Li Zhisui
25 Tabish Khair: The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Comments?