My forever writers
A while back I was asked to make a list of fifty writers who are in my all-time Bitches Better Recognise ~*~CANON~*~, from any art form as long as it's narrative. I realised, to my dismay, that I was actually able to come up with only about forty! Here they are, for your health, in no particular order!
Not exaclty gender-equal, but several kickass ladies. From the looks of it it's about evenly divided between 'genre fiction' and '~*~real~*~' literature, which makes sense, I think. More classics of fantasy, more iconoclastic science-fiction. Mostly relatively recent but drawing on much older sources, partly because most of my favourite ancient and mediaeval writers don't have extant names.
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- C.S. Lewis
- Charles Williams
- Tanizaki Jun'ichirou
- Kawabata Yasunari
- Takeuchi Naoko
- Ryukishi07
- Dorothy L. Sayers
- Ikuhara Kunihiko
- James Joyce
- P.J. Hammond
- Angela Carter
- Nishimura Junji (Simoun!!)
- Mark Twain
- Sydney Newman
- Verity Lambert
- Miyazaki Hayao
- Ovid
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Beata Julian of Norwich
- John Milton
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- H.P. Lovecraft
- The Lord Dunsany
- Aphra Behn
- Garrison Keillor
- Mikhail Bulgakov
- Jane Austen
- Stan Lee
- Grant Morrison
- Umberto Eco
- Takana Kinuyo
- Nasu Kinoko
- David Lynch
- Mashimo Kouichi
- Yoshiya Nobuko
- Mizoguchi Kenji
Not exaclty gender-equal, but several kickass ladies. From the looks of it it's about evenly divided between 'genre fiction' and '~*~real~*~' literature, which makes sense, I think. More classics of fantasy, more iconoclastic science-fiction. Mostly relatively recent but drawing on much older sources, partly because most of my favourite ancient and mediaeval writers don't have extant names.