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The canonical American writers are Kurt Vonnegut, John Barth, Thomas Pynchon, Walter Abish, Kathy Acker, Paul Auster, Donald Barthelme, Richard Brautigan, William Burroughs, Robert Coover, Don DeLillo, E.L. Doctorow, Raymond Federman, William Gass, Steve Katz, Jerzy Kosinski, Joseph McElory, Ishmael Reed, Gilbert Sorrentino, Ronald Sukenick; the first three being the best known.

Now, as far as literature goes, there's no strict definition of Postmodernism; ergo you'll often hear names like: Vladimir Nabokov (born in the Russian Empire, wrote in French and English), Joseph Heller, Toni Morrison, Ken Kesey, and JD Salinger.

Some of the British writers are: John Fowles, Ian McEwan, David Lodge, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Angela Carter.

Non-English writers include: Gunter Grass and Peter Handke (Ger), George Perec and Monique Wittig (Fra), Umberto Eco and Italo Calvino (Ita), Stanislaw Lem (Pol), Milan Kundera (the former Czechoslovakia), Mario Vargos Llosa (Per), Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Col), J.M. Coetzee (RSA), Peter Carey (Aus).

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