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Writers Flashcards

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Sir William Golding, Seamus Heaney, Harold Pinter

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Winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature

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Agatha Christie

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Writer of detective stories

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Ian Fleming

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Writer of James Bond

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JRR Tolkien

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Writer of The Lord of the Rings

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Jane Austen

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Writer of Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility

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Charles Dickens

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Writer of Oliver Twist and Great Expectations

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Robert Louis Stevenson

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Writer of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde

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Thomas Hardy

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Poet and author, wrote Far from the Madding Crowd and Jude the Obscure

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Scottish doctor and writer of Sherlock Holmes

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Evelyn Waugh

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Writer of satirical novels, including Brideshead Revisited

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Sir Kingsley Amis

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Poet and novelist, wrote Lucky Jim.

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Graham Greene

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Writer influenced by religious beliefs

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JK Rowling

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Writer of Harry Potter

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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Writer of the Canterbury Tales

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John Milton

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Protestant poet, wrote Paradise Lost

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William Wordsworth

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Poet inspired by nature

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Sir Walter Scott

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Wrote poems and novels inspired by Scotland

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William Blake, John Keats, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert and Elisabeth Browning

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19th century poets

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Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon

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Poets inspired by WW1

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Sir Walter de la Mare, John Masefield, Sir John Betjeman, Ted Hughes

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Recent popular poets

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Ian MacEwan, Hilary Mantel, Julian Barnes

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Man Booker Prize winning authors

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John Barbour

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Scottish poet who wrote The Bruce about the Battle of Bannockburn

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Robert Burns

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Scottish poet

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Rudyard Kipling

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Wrote books and poems set India and the UK, including The Jungle Book

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Dylan Thomas

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Welsh poet and writer

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Roald Dahl

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Wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and George’s Marvellous Medicine

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