Iain Banks named in Times list of ‘50 greatest postwar writers’
February 21, 2008Iain Banks has been named alongside 49 other British literary luminaries in the (London) Times' list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.
In their quick summary of Mr Banks' achievements to-date, they note:
"Although reviewers of Iain Banks’s debut The Wasp Factory were not entirely convinced of its moral value, they couldn’t deny that it heralded the arrival of a brilliant new imagination ... An entertaining and outspoken writer, at 53 Banks still has something of the enfant terrible about him."
Visit the Times website to read their Iain Banks profile piece and see the full list of 50.
