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Jon Gower llun Marian Delyth

Jon Gower grew up in Llanelli, Wales and studied English at Cambridge University.A former BBC Wales'...

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Caroline Graham was born on 17 July 1931 in Warwickshire, England. She was a factory worker for thre...

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Linda Grant web

Linda Grant was born in Liverpool, England in 1951, and read English at the University of York. Her ...

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Richard Perceval Graves was born in Brighton in 1945. He studied Modern History at St. John's Colleg...

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Alasdair GRAY

Alasdair Gray describes himself as a 'self-employed verbal and pictorial artist'. He was born in Rid...

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Keith Gray was born and brought up in Grimsby. At primary school he avoided books thinking they were...

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Lavinia Greenlaw credit Julian Abrams

Poet and novelist Lavinia Greenlaw was born in London in 1962. She read Modern Arts at Kingston Poly...

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Philippa Gregory was an established historian and writer when she discovered her interest in the Tud...

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Andrew Greig credit Gunnie Moberg

Andrew Greig was born on 23 September 1951 in Bannockburn, Scotland and grew up in Anstruther, Fife....

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David Greig was born in Edinburgh in 1969 and brought up in Nigeria. He studied drama at Bristol Uni...

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Kate Grenville 2008 by Alice Petty

Kate Grenville was born in Sydney, Australia, and holds degrees from the University of Sydney, the U...

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Griffiths Niall Credit Toril Brancher

Niall Griffiths was born in Liverpool in 1966, studied English, and now lives and works in Aberystwy...

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Trevor Griffiths c Jo Clauwaert web

Trevor Griffiths was born in 1935 in Manchester. He graduated from Manchester University with a BA i...

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Gross photo Zelie Gross

Philip Gross was born in 1952 in North Cornwall. His father's history as a wartime refugee from Esto...

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Romesh Gunesekera c Yemisi Blake web

Romesh Gunesekera was born in 1954 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He grew up in Sri Lanka and the Philippine...

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Kirsty Gunn

Kirsty Gunn was born in 1960 in New Zealand and educated at Queen Margaret College and Victoria Univ...

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Guo Xiaolu Credit Xiaolu Guo

Xiaolu Guo is a novelist, essayist, screenwriter and film maker. She was born in south-eastern China...

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Sunetra Gupta was born in Calcutta, India, on 15 March 1965 and spent her childhood in Ethiopia and ...

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Tanika Photo c Simon Anand

Tanika Gupta was born in 1963 in Chiswick, and is a British playwright of Bengali origin. She read m...

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Abdulrazak Gurnah c Mark Pringle web

Novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in 1948 on the island of Zanzibar off the coast of East Africa. ...

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