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Meanings of contemporary fiction in English

Russian
современная литература
Spanish
literatura contemporanea

Literary genre setting generally after World War II.

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современная литература
Usage of contemporary fiction in English
1
He purges the mind of uncleanness, just as he purged contemporary fiction.
Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson / Selected and Edited With an I...
2
Obs: You used to write contemporary fiction and now you're writing historical books.
The Guardian
3
It's a fabulous piece of work from one of contemporary fiction's great storytellers.
The Irish Times
4
They also called him one of contemporary fiction's most distinctive and irresistible new voices.
The new yorker
5
I studied literature in college, and throughout my twenties I voraciously read contemporary fiction.
Wired
6
David Nicholls writes at the cutting edge of contemporary fiction.
The Irish Times
7
A fine work of contemporary fiction will do nicely.
Wired
8
How about "the best of contemporary fiction written in East Anglia?"
The Irish Times
9
At the shop we don't deal in contemporary fiction.
The thirteenth tale: a novel
10
It's significant that Gibson has moved to writing contemporary fiction with hardly a change of register.
The Guardian
11
Yet almost all contemporary fiction leaves me straight-faced.
The Guardian
12
The female gaze, and its appraisal of male bodies, is foreign territory in much contemporary fiction.
The Guardian
13
There is a growing trend in contemporary fiction to not only retell, but reinvent the traditional fairytale.
The Irish Times
14
I felt that contemporary fiction, or a lot of contemporary fiction, wasn't addressing economic or political realities and challenges.
Reuters
15
These two novels are always rightly at the centre of any conversation about the contemporary fiction of the Troubles.
The Irish Times
16
I was electrified -and powerfully reminded that contemporary fiction could be so intelligent, so readable, and so widescreen.
The Guardian
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