Harry Potter author JK Rowling, has been named the greatest living British author, cruising ahead of bigwigs like Salman Rushdie and playwright Harold Pinter. A poll by 'The Book Magazine' collected 3 times as many votes for Rowling than the second-placed name on the list, fantasy writer Terry Pratchett. Booker Prize winners Ian McEwan, Rushdie, who penned the 1988 book The Satanic Verses and Midnight’s Children came next.
Other top British authors were:
Kazuo Ishiguro
Philip Pullman
Harold Pinter
Nick Hornby
AS Byatt
Jonathan Coe and John Le Carre
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