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Angela Carter was concerned with "black comedy"- about sexual and During the second half of the 20th century, literature from various
drug related issues and personalities. Her writing is a mix of the non English centres also became quite popular. Writers like V.S.
gothic and fantasy fiction. Her works are quite famous among the Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai contributed to the
feminist writers as she portrays conflicts of gender and class as in development of contemporary English fiction. Diasporic and Post
The Passion of New Eve. Colonial writers have offered many different visions of the English
culture, thus enriching the post modern fiction genre.
Other notable novelists of the period are Angus Wilson, Anthony
Powell, Iris Murdoch, Anthony Burgess, William Golding, John
Fowles, John Le Carre, Ian McEwan and Martin Amis.