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Originally Posted by doubleshuffle
What I find a bit weird is "novels only, by British authors (no James Joyce)." So that meant no Beckett, I guess, no Wilde (?). Were there any Irish authors with British citizenship?
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Ireland became an independent country in 1922, so authors like Wilde (who died in 1900) were British citizens their entire life. The selection, though, was specifically of novels, and Wilde is of course best known as a playwright, and I don't think that his one novel, "The Picture of Dorian Gray", is likely to make anyone's "best novels" list! Joyce died in 1941, so can reasonably be considered an Irish author rather than a British one.
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I guess Rushdie is a UK citizen?
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Yes, he is.