Writers Directory

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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Olivia Laing

Olivia Laing was born in 1977 and grew up in Chalfont St. Peter, Buckinghamshire. She spent her chil...

Nick Laird credit Mark Pringle

Nick Laird is a lawyer, poet, novelist and critic from Northern Ireland. His essays, reviews and poe...

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Elizabeth Laird C Angus McDowall web

Elizabeth Laird was born in New Zealand of Scottish parents, but grew up in London. Before studying ...

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John Lanchester c John Lanchester web

John Lanchester was born in Hamburg in 1962. He grew up in the Far East, but was educated in England...

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Lee Langley was born in Calcutta, India. She is the author of several novels, including Changes of A...

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Lasdun James Credit Nina Subin

James Lasdun was born in London and now lives in the US. He is a poet, fiction and screen writer, an...

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John le Carre credit Anton Corbijn THIS PHOTO MUST NOT BE CROPPED OR ALTERED

John le Carré (aka David Cornwell) was born in Dorset in 1931, and was educated at Sherborne School ...

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Lebrecht Norman credit Geoff Barton The Strad web

Norman Lebrecht writes on music and cultural affairs. He is currently Assistant Editor and columnist...

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Lee Hermione Credit Greg Smolonski Photovibe web

Critic and biographer Hermione Lee was born in Winchester, England in 1948 and grew up in London. Af...

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Born in West London, Tony Lee has been a writer and journalist for television, print and radio for o...

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Tom Lee was born in Essex in 1974 and attended the University of East Anglia, the University of Cali...

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Melissa Lee-Houghton is a poet & writer of short fiction, selected by The Poetry Book Society as one...

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Mike Leigh is an award-winning screen-writer and playwright who was born in Salford, Lancashire, in ...

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Frances Leviston was born in Edinburgh in 1982. She grew up in Sheffield and read English at St Hild...

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Deborah Levy web

Playwright, novelist and poet Deborah Levy (Fellow Royal Society of Literature) was born in 1959 in ...

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Lewis Keith Morris web

Poet Gwyneth Lewis was born in 1959 in Cardiff, Wales. She attended a bilingual school in Pontypridd...

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Marina Lewycka credit Ben McMillan 3

Marina Lewycka is of Ukrainian origin and was born in a refugee camp in Kiel, Germany, during World ...

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Nell Leyshon is a novelist and playwright. Her first stage play, The Farm (2002), was runner-up for ...

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Lieven Anatol

Peter Paul Anatol Lieven (28 June 1960) is a British author, Orwell Prize-winning journalist, and po...

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Joan Lingard was born in Edinburgh and spent her formative years in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She n...

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