Author Reviews:

(Numbers in brackets refers to the number of works by the author under review)

• Steve AYLETT (10) -- offers sharp, fast and furious fiction
• Murray BAIL (8) -- the creative Australian voice
• Roberto BOLAÑO (19) -- the modern master
• A.S.BYATT (12) -- clever, grand fictions
• Upamanyu CHATTERJEE (3) -- the wry Indian writer
• Jonathan COE (15) -- clever English fare
• Miguel DELIBES (3) -- the eminent Spaniard
• Alain DE BOTTON (7) -- the self-reflective muser
• Geoff DYER (10) -- the man with the Anglo-English attitude, adept at fiction and non
• Per Olov ENQUIST (7) -- the great Swede
• Steve ERICKSON (6) -- the dystopian American author
• Annie ERNAUX (15) -- offers terse, precise, and powerful French autobiographical pieces
• Tibor FISCHER (5) -- clever British fiction
• Jonathan FRANZEN (6) -- the young American
• Juan GOYTISOLO (13) -- the Spanish master
• Alasdair GRAY (8) -- the grand old Scot, always clever and fun
• Durs GRÜNBEIN (10) -- the acclaimed young German poet
• Lars GUSTAFSSON (8) -- the prolific Swede
• Zbigniew HERBERT (6) -- one of the great Polish poets
• Geoffrey HILL (14) -- the earnest Anglican and English poet
• Miroslav HOLUB (7) -- Czech scientist and poet with a broad range of talents
• B. S. JOHNSON (4) -- the accessible English experimentalist
• Daniel KEHLMANN (13) -- the precocious Austrian
• Imre KÉRTESZ (10) -- the Hungarian Nobel laureate
• Ahmadou KOUROUMA (4) -- magical and too-realistic African fiction
• Naguib MAHFOUZ (28) -- the Egyptian Nobel laureate, the towering figure of Arab fiction
• Hilary MANTEL (7) -- accomplished contemporary English fiction, in varied settings
• Harry MATHEWS (8) -- an OULIPO member, presents varied experimental writing
• Magnus MILLS (6) -- the dead-pan Brit
• Paul MULDOON (14) -- the playful Irish poet
• Harry MULISCH (13) -- the master Dutchman, one of the leading novelists of our times
• Herta MÜLLER (0) -- the German-Romanian writer
• MURAKAMI Haruki (21) -- the Japanese pop master
• Les MURRAY (10) -- the powerful Australian poet
• NGŨGĨ wa Thiong'o (7) -- the great Kenyan author
• Geoff NICHOLSON (20) -- an obsessive Englishman, with a wicked sense of humour
• Cees NOOTEBOOM (9) -- the well-travelled and versatile Dutchman
• Amélie NOTHOMB (28) -- the Belgian belle offering clever and amusing little entertainments
• Amos OZ (9) -- the popular Israeli author
• Cynthia OZICK (16) -- the profound and fanciful American
• Georges PEREC (15) -- the leading member of the Oulipo
• Richard POSNER (12) -- the prolific jurist
• Ann QUIN (4) -- the experimental Brit
• Yasmina REZA (11) -- the popular French playwright
• Arno SCHMIDT (5) -- the ultra-literary German experimentalist
• Iain SINCLAIR (14) -- bookseller, poet, London rambler, novelist, observer, analyst
• Tom STOPPARD (14) -- the brilliant dramatist
• Antonio TABUCCHI (9) -- the Italian author of fine, small thoughtful entertainments
• Dubravka UGREŠIĆ (13) -- the international Croatian
• Mario VARGAS LLOSA (18) -- the prolific Peruvian Nobel laureate
• Peter WEISS (12) -- the great German dramatist and novelist
• Patrick WHITE (17) -- the Australian Nobel laureate, a master for the ages
• Jeanette WINTERSON (11) -- the controversial artist