Check out Granta's awesome list of the Best 41 Contemporary

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Check out Granta's awesome list of the Best 41 Contemporary British and American writers /lit/.

Which authors would you recommend from this diverse and demographically representative list?

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Editors
Sigrid Rausing (Jewish)
John Freeman (Unknown)

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1. Emma Cline (Jewish)
2. Joshua Cohen (Jewish)
3. Mark Doten (Jewish)
4. Rachel Glaser (Jewish)
5. Lauren Groff (Jewish)
6. Garth Risk Hallberg (Jewish)
7. Sana Krasikov (Jewish)
8. Ben Lerner (Jewish)
9. Anthony Marra (Jewish)
10. Greg Jackson (Jewish)
11. Naomi Alderman (Jewish)
12. Ned Beaumann (Jewish)
13. Adam Foulds (Jewish)
14. Joanna Kavenna (Jewish)
15. Benjamin Markovits (Jewish)
16. David Szalay (Jewish)
17. Adam Thirlwell (Jewish)

18. Yaa Gyasi (Black)
19. Dinaw Mengetsu (Black)
20. Chinelo Okparanta (Black)
21. Zadie Smith (Black)
22. Helen Oyeyemi (Black)
23.. Nadifa Mohamed (Black)
24. Taiye Selasi (Black)

25. Karan Mahajan (Asian)
26. Ottessa Moshfegh (Persian)
27.. Esme Wang (Asian)
28. Kamila Shamsie (Asian)
29. Xiaolu Guo (Asian)
30. Sunjeev Sahota (Asian)
31. Tahmima Anam (Asian)

32. Claire Vaye Watkins (White Female)
33. Evie Wyld (White Female)
34. Sarah Hall (White Female)
35. Catherine Lacey (White Female)
36. Jenni Fagan (White Female)
37. Jen George (White Female)
38. Halle Butler (White Female)

39. Ross Raisin (White Male)
40. Richard Hall (White Male)
41. Jesse Ball (White Male)

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Jewish population of the US: 1.4%
Jewish population of the UK: 0.5%

Black population of the US: 12%
Jewish population of the UK: 3%

Asian population of the US: 5.6%
Asian population of the UK: 2.3%

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