2000–2026

The Twenty-First Century

Literature after the millennium: autofiction dissolves the wall between novel and memoir, translation reaches a golden age, and the century's anxieties (climate, migration, the self online) find their forms. The canon is still being written.

Reading path

The Twenty-First Century

Autofiction dissolves the wall between novel and memoir, and the century's real anxieties (climate, migration, the self online) go looking for a form.

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Movements of this era

Autofiction & the Self

The wall between novel and memoir dissolves; the writing self becomes the subject.

Authors of this era

1917–1976Tove DitlevsenDenmark b. 1940Annie ErnauxFrance b. 1957Emmanuel CarrèreFrance b. 1967Rachel CuskUnited Kingdom / Canada b. 1968Karl Ove KnausgaardNorway