List of postmodern writers

This is a list of postmodern authors.

A

 * Kathy Acker
 * Peter Ackroyd
 * Edward Albee
 * Isabel Allende
 * Martin Amis
 * Gloria E. Anzaldúa
 * Alberto Arbasino
 * Fernando Arrabal
 * John Ashbery
 * Oğuz Atay
 * Yusuf Atılgan
 * Margaret Atwood
 * Paul Auster

B

 * J. G. Ballard
 * John Banville
 * Amiri Baraka
 * Julian Barnes
 * José Baroja
 * John Barth
 * Donald Barthelme
 * Samuel Beckett
 * Saul Bellow
 * John Berryman
 * Andrei Bitov
 * Roberto Bolaño
 * María Luisa Bombal
 * Jorge Luis Borges
 * T. Coraghessan Boyle
 * Giannina Braschi
 * Richard Brautigan
 * Michael Brodsky
 * Christine Brooke-Rose
 * Nicole Brossard
 * Pascal Bruckner
 * Gesualdo Bufalino
 * Charles Bukowski
 * Zaza Burchuladze
 * Anthony Burgess
 * William S. Burroughs
 * Michel Butor
 * A.S. Byatt

C

 * Pat Cadigan
 * Italo Calvino
 * Elias Canetti
 * Mary Caponegro
 * Angela Carter
 * Raymond Carver
 * Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
 * Michael Chabon
 * Caryl Churchill
 * Hélène Cixous
 * Chris Cleave
 * John Maxwell Coetzee
 * Brendan Connell
 * Vincenzo Consolo
 * Robert Coover
 * Julio Cortázar
 * Douglas Coupland
 * John Crowley
 * Mitch Cullin

D

 * Mark Z Danielewski
 * Evan Dara
 * Stefano D'Arrigo
 * Lydia Davis
 * Samuel R. Delany
 * Don DeLillo
 * Junot Diaz
 * Philip K. Dick
 * E. L. Doctorow
 * J. P. Donleavy
 * Margaret Drabble
 * Marguerite Duras
 * Bob Dylan

E

 * Umberto Eco
 * Dave Eggers
 * T.S. Eliot
 * Bret Easton Ellis
 * Louise Erdrich
 * Péter Esterházy

F

 * Dan Fante
 * Raymond Federman
 * Amanda Filipacchi
 * Dario Fo
 * Jonathan Safran Foer
 * Jonathan Franzen
 * Carlos Fuentes
 * Richard Foreman

G

 * Carlo Emilio Gadda
 * William Gaddis
 * Neil Gaiman
 * William H. Gass
 * Eckhard Gerdes
 * William Gibson
 * Allen Ginsberg
 * John Giorno
 * William Golding
 * Nadine Gordimer
 * Hedwig Gorski
 * Jorie Graham
 * Alasdair Gray
 * Michael Grothaus
 * Andrei Gusev

H

 * Jessica Hagedorn
 * John Hawkes
 * Brenda Hillman
 * Siri Hustvedt
 * Joseph Heller

I

 * Luce Iragaray
 * John Irving
 * Robert Irwin
 * Christopher Isherwood
 * Kazuo Ishiguro

J

 * Shelley Jackson
 * Marlon James
 * B. S. Johnson
 * Lawrence Joseph

K

 * Metin Kaçan
 * Ismail Kadare
 * Richard Kalich
 * Reza Khoshnazar
 * Danilo Kis
 * Christian Kracht
 * László Krasznahorkai
 * Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
 * Milan Kundera
 * Tony Kushner
 * Jack Kerouac
 * Ken Kesey

L

 * Wally Lamb
 * Doris Lessing
 * Mark Leyner
 * José Lezama Lima
 * Eduard Limonov
 * Tao Lin
 * Clarice Lispector
 * Patricia Lockwood
 * Robert Ludlum
 * Dimitris Lyacos
 * Dominic Lyne
 * Jonathan Lethem

M

 * Claudio Magris
 * Dacia Maraini
 * David Markson
 * Gabriel García Márquez
 * Yann Martel
 * Carole Maso
 * Cormac McCarthy
 * Tom McCarthy
 * Joseph McElroy
 * Jon McGregor
 * Czeslaw Milosz
 * Yukio Mishima
 * Alan Moore
 * Grant Morrison
 * Toni Morrison
 * Alice Munro
 * Haruki Murakami

N

 * Vladimir Nabokov
 * Maggie Nelson
 * Charu Nivedita
 * Jeff Noon
 * Alice Notley

O

 * Tim O'Brien
 * Flannery O'Connor
 * Michael Ondaatje
 * Amos Oz

P

 * Chuck Palahniuk
 * Orhan Pamuk
 * Suzan-Lori Parks
 * Nicanor Parra
 * Milorad Pavić
 * Victor Pelevin
 * Georges Perec
 * Cecile Pineda
 * Richard Powers
 * Terry Pratchett
 * Dmitry Prigov
 * Thomas Pynchon

Q

 * Rexhep Qosja
 * Raymond Queneau
 * Ann Quin

R

 * Ishmael Reed
 * Adrienne Rich
 * Tom Robbins
 * Philip Roth
 * Salman Rushdie
 * Joanna Russ

S

 * Mark SaFranko
 * J. D. Salinger
 * José Saramago
 * Nathalie Sarraute
 * George Saunders
 * Ann Scott
 * Will Self
 * Elif Shafak
 * Leslie Marmon Silko
 * Charles Simic
 * Isaac Bashevis Singer
 * Zadie Smith
 * Sasha Sokolov
 * Vladimir Sorokin
 * Art Spiegelman
 * Neal Stephenson
 * Ali Smith

T

 * James Tiptree Jr. (aka Alice Sheldon)
 * Pier Vittorio Tondelli
 * Hasan Ali Toptaş
 * Michel Tournier
 * David Trinidad
 * Anne Tyler
 * Olga Tokarczuk

V

 * Enrique Vila-Matas
 * William T. Vollmann
 * Kurt Vonnegut

W

 * David Foster Wallace
 * D. Harlan Wilson
 * Jeanette Winterson

Y

 * Venedikt Yerofeyev
 * Marguerite Young
 * Kim Young-ha

Z

 * Yilin Zhong