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Literature for children and young adults
J. K. Rowling, 2010 Roald Dahl is a prominent author of children’s fantasy novels, like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in 1964, which are often inspired from experiences from his childhood, with often unexpected endings, and unsentimental, dark humour.[144] Popular school stories from this period include Ronald Searle's St Trinian's. J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter fantasy series is a sequence of seven novels that chronicle the adventures of the adolescent wizard Harry Potter is the best selling book- series in history. The series has been translated into 67 languages,[145][146] placing Rowling among the most translated authors in history.[147] Scottish literature Scotland has in the late 20th century produced several important novelists, including James Kelman who like Samuel Beckett can create humour out of the most grim situations; A. L. Kennedy whose 2007 novel Day was named Book of the Year in the Costa Book Awards.;[148] Alasdair Gray whose Lanark: A Life in Four Books (1981) is a dystopian fantasy set in his home town Glasgow. Highly anglicised Lowland Scots is often used in contemporary Scottish fiction, for example, the Edinburgh dialect of Lowland Scots used in Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh to give a brutal depiction of the lives of working class Edinburgh drug users.[149] In Northern Ireland, James Fenton's poetry is written in contemporary Ulster Scots.[150] The poet Michael Longley (born 1939) has experimented with Ulster Scots for the translation of Classical verse, as in his 1995 collection The Ghost Orchid.[151] Twentieth-Century genre fiction Main article: Genre literature Download 225.16 Kb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: 
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