His work during this time was, as with his contemporary compatriots, most notably the experimental novelist Janet Frame, largely influenced by the modernist works of Dylan Thomas.

On Gregory Rabassa's crowded bookshelves is a first edition of "Rayuela," the experimental 1963 novel by the Argentine novelist Julio Cortázar.

Mardhekar was also an influential crictic and an experimental novelist.

Frederick Ted Castle, an experimental novelist and New York art critic, died on May 16 in Far Rockaway, Queens.

Kenneth Patchen (Award-winning poet and experimental novelist)

He sees his role as similar to that of an experimental novelist - not to expose his soul but to create and undercut narratives through absurdity and surprise.

If experimental novelists metaphorically stare across the Channel, it is not only because they hope some valuable contraband - fresh styles from France - may be smuggled through English literary customs.

Befuddled critics have patched together a kind of police composite that presents the suspect as a surreal postmodern comic experimental novelist.

This month, the Austrian experimental novelist Peter Handke, published a two-part piece on his travels in the former Yugoslavia in the Siiddeutsche Zeitung.

The book draws on 1960s-70s experimental novelist Ann Quin, particularly her seaside novel Berg.