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This database was created to provide a snapshot of contemporary British Literature, offering unique critical perspectives of the work of some of the writers living and working in the UK today. Our website is currently under review and as a result we are not updating the database or adding new entries at this time.  Please check our blog pages for updates on our current Literature programmes. 

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Levi Tafari

Levi Tafari was born in Liverpool. He is the author of three poetry collections: Duboetry (1987), L...

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D. J. Taylor

D.J. Taylor was born in 1960, studied at St John's College, Oxford and is a writer and critic. His c...

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Sara Taylor

Sara Taylor grew up in Virginia and is currently completing a PhD in Creative Writing at the Univers...

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G. P. Taylor

G. P. Taylor was born and grew up in Scarborough, Yorkshire, moving to London as a teenager. He work...

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Joelle Taylor

Joelle Taylor is an award-winning poet, playwright, author and educator.She was UK Performance Poetr...

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Roma Tearne

Roma Tearne is a painter, installation artist, film maker and writer. She left Sri Lanka aged ten ye...

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Tempest Kate 2014 website
Kae Tempest

Kae Tempest is a playwright, poet, novelist and spoken word artist. They began performing when they ...

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Jeet Thayil credit Basso Cannarsa website
Jeet Thayil

Jeet Thayil was born in Kerala, India in 1959 and was educated in Hong Kong, New York and Bombay. He...

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Marcel Theroux credit Sarah Lee website
Marcel Theroux

Marcel Theroux is a screenwriter, a broadcaster and novelist. He is the son of travel writer Paul Th...

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Adam Thirlwell

Adam Thirlwell was born in London in 1978. He is the author of three novels, Politics, The Escape an...

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Ifor Thomas

Ifor Thomas was born in Haverfordwest in 1949. He received the John Tripp Award for Spoken Poetry in...

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Alice Thompson

Alice Thompson grew up in Edinburgh and read English at Oxford University. She played keyboard with ...

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Kate Thompson

Kate Thompson was born in Halifax and grew up in Leamington Spa and Worcester. She has lived in Irel...

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Matt Thorne credit Daniel Blumberg website
Matt Thorne

Matt Thorne was born in 1974, and grew up in Bristol. He studied at Cambridge University and is the ...

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Thorpe Adam Credit Daniel Thorpe website
Adam Thorpe

Poet, playwright and novelist Adam Thorpe was born in Paris in 1956 and grew up in India, Cameroon a...

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Colin Thubron

Award-winning travel writer and novelist Colin Thubron was born in London on 14 June 1939. Educated ...

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Anthony Thwaite

Poet Anthony Thwaite was born in Chester, England, in 1930. He spent his early childhood in Yorkshir...

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Colm Tóibín

Irish novelist and journalist Colm Tóibín was born in Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford in Ireland in 1955 an...

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Claire Tomalin NEW 2011 credit Angus Muir website
Claire Tomalin

Biographer Claire Tomalin was born in London in 1933. After graduating from Newnham College, Cambrid...

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Barbara Trapido c Tony Kaplan website
Barbara Trapido

Barbara Trapido was born in 1941 in Capetown, South Africa. She studied at the University of Natal, ...

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