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RCW Authors Nominated As Best British and Irish Novelists by TLS

The Times Literary Supplement has announced its top novelists chosen as Britain's and Ireland's best writers.

From the group of around 200 critics, academics and writers of fiction requested to supply a list of the ten authors producing the best writing "at the moment", six RCW authors feature in the top ten, with a further two in the top twenty.

The RCW nominated authors include:

Zadie Smith (Feel Free: Essays)

Kazuo Ishiguro (The Buried Giant)

Colm Toibin (House of Names)

Nicola Barker (H(a)ppy)

Anne Enright (The Green Road)

Sebastian Barry (Days Without End)

Claire-Louise Bennett and Gwendoline Riley are also among the nominees in the top 20.

For more information, please see here.

(Agent for Zadie Smith: Georgia Garrett; Agent for Kazuo Ishiguro, Colm Toibin, Anne Enright and Claire-Louise Bennett: Peter Straus; Agent for Nicola Barker: Matthew Marland; Agent for Sebastian Barry: Natasha Fairweather; Agent for Gwendoline Riley: Zoe Waldie)

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