Blitcon is a collective portmanteau term invented to describe the political tendencies of Britain's three most prominent novelists ('British' 'literary' 'neoconservatives'). It was first used by Ziauddin Sardar in December 2006. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Professor Ziauddin Sardar (1951 - ), who has lived in Saudi Arabia (1975-1980) and is now based in London, is a prominent writer regarding the future of Islam and science and technology. ... Look up December in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Writing in the British left-leaning political weekly the New Statesman, Saddar charged that Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie and Ian McEwan "dominate British literature - and they're convinced that Islam threatens civilisation as we know it". While the triumvirate's generational sway over the commanding heights of British literary affairs is largely undisputed, the novelists' approaches to and descriptions of Islamism could be seen as more nuanced than Sardar's contentious article gave them credit. The New Statesman is a left-of-centre political weekly published in London. ... Photo of Martin Amis by Robert Birnbaum Martin Amis (born August 25, 1949) is an English novelist. ... Salman Rushdie (born Ahmed Salman Rushdie, Urdu: ‎, on June 19, 1947, in Bombay, India) is a British-Indian essayist and author of fiction, most of which is set on the Indian subcontinent. ... Ian McEwan CBE, (born June 21, 1948), is a British novelist (sometimes nicknamed Ian Macabre because of the nature of his early work). ... This article is about political Islamism. ...

Amis, Rushdie and McEwan were also included in the original 1983 Granta Best of Young British Novelists list. Amis also served as the literary editor of the New Statesman, where he worked alongside Christopher Hitchens, another dubbed 'neo-con' on occasion. Granta 37, published September 1991 Granta is a literary magazine which publishes new writing — fiction, personal history, reportage and investigative journalism — four times a year. ... Christopher Hitchens Christopher Eric Hitchens (born in Portsmouth, England April 13, 1949) is an author, journalist and literary critic. ...

External links

• [1] 'Welcome to Planet Blitcon', Ziauddin Sardar, New Statesman, 11 December 2006
• [2] 'Planet Blitcon? It doesn't exist', Robert McCrum, Comment is free, 7 December 2006