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George Orwell

‘All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others’
According to the Oxford Dictionary, ‘dystopic’ is something ‘typical of, or featuring an imaginary place or state in which everything is extremely bad or unpleasant.’ If your literary taste is politically oriented, you should have read George Orwell’s works. In 1984, Animal Farm was published, providing the English writer with a chance to describe these kinds of conditions; an example of dystopian literature, but also satirical and critical of the political assets of this time. The life of Eric Arthur Blair – Orwell’s real name – has been an adventurous one: son of a civil servant in India, he joined the Indian Civil Police in Burma in 1922,to get back to Europe where — as he described in Down and Out in London and Paris – he lived in deprivation and poverty. Moreover, Orwell joined the Spanish Civil War in 1936. These events are examples of a lifelong fight to have his ideas and beliefs heard, making him an inspiring figure for everyone around the world.

J.K. Rowling

‘No story lives unless someone wants to listen’
Although this literature journey is ending, we could not complete the list without J.K. Rowling and the undoubted impact her books have had. Do we need to quote her best-known character? Everybody across the world knows of Harry Potter and all his adventures; Rowling filled the 90s and new millennium generations with a magical new world about the young wizard and his friends. The massive effects this saga has had is what makes this author remarkable. Apart from the prizes and global fame she has gained from the Harry Potter saga , J.K. Rowling has been an active character even beyond the lines of her books. At the beginning of her career, she was with Amnesty International, readily involved in the Human Rights debate and philanthropy of the time. If you want to discover her new works after Potter, read the The Cuckoo’s Calling or The Silkworm, written under the pseudonym of Robert Galbraith.