British novelist Martin Amis, the renowned author of British literary classics like “Money” and “London Fields” says that, colonial writing has added diversity and color to contemporary English literature.

According to him the major change in last three decades is the arrival of colonial writers which was headed by Salman Rushdie.

61-year novelist who was in India for the Jaipur lit fest opined that, during 80’s the English novel was parochial but now Indian writers have added colors. They have contributed huge amount of styles and diversity making novel writing much more a public occupation.

The writer teaches creative writing at Manchester University and is amongst the 50 greatest British writers since 1945 as named by Time magazine in 2008. He has authored nearly dozen novels like ‘Yellow Dog’, ‘Dead Babies’, ‘Night Train’ and ‘The Pregnant Widow’ as well as equal number of anthologies of essays and non-fiction works.

When enquired about his favorite colonial writer, Amis said colonial writing was “marked by a new energy”. “I read my friend Salman Rushdie, who marks a watershed in Indian writing exemplifying the evolution in literature.”

He has just finished writing novel which he expects to get it printed by next year. His book is set in England and has some weird characters in contemporary society. It is all about tolerance, vulgarity and decline.