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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DAguiar Fred Credit Ronen Nuna

Poet, novelist and playwright Fred D'Aguiar was born in London in 1960 to Guyanese parents. He lived...

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Selma Dabbagh is a writer of prose, plays and essays who lives in London. She is of British Palestin...

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David Dabydeen

Critic, writer and novelist David Dabydeen was born in 1955 in Berbice, Guyana, moving to England wi...

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Fflur Llun Cefn AYL web

Fflur Dafydd is a novelist, critic and musician from Carmarthen, West Wales. She was born in 1978 an...

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William Dalrymple c Jonathan Ring web

William Dalrymple was born and brought up in Scotland. He wrote his first book, In Xanadu: A Quest (...

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Achmat Dangor was born in Johannesburg in 1948, and after high school, lived in several small rural ...

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Toni Davidson was born in Ayr, Scotland in 1965. He is the editor of two anthologies of short storie...

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Peter Ho Davies was born in 1966 to Welsh and Chinese parents. He has degrees in Physics and English...

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Steviedavies

Stevie Davies, novelist and historian, was born in Wales; she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Li...

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Carys Davies is the author of a novel, West, and two collections of short stories, Some New Ambush a...

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Lindsey Davis author photo 2012 web

Lindsey Davis has been a historical novelist for nearly thirty years.  She began writing about the R...

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Jill Dawson web

Jill Dawson was born in Durham and grew up in Staffordshire, Essex and Yorkshire. She read American ...

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Juno Dawson

Juno Dawson grew up in West Yorkshire and now lives in Brighton. She worked for some years as a teac...

Bernieres Louis Credit Ivon Bartholomew web

Novelist Louis de Bernières was born in London in 1954. He joined the army at 18 but left after spen...

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De Botton 9 web Mathias Marx

Born in 1969, writer Alain de Botton moved to England with his family from Switzerland when he was e...

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Deane Seamus Credits Caroline Forbes

Critic, poet and novelist Seamus Deane was born in 1940 in Derry in Northern Ireland. He was educate...

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Deane John F web

John F. Deane was born on Achill Island in 1943. He is the author of several poetry collections and ...

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Meaghan Delahunt was born in 1961 in Melbourne, Australia. Since 1992 she has lived in Edinburgh, Sc...

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Born in 1955, Joolz Denby is a writer, poet, spoken-word performer, illustrative and fine artist, cu...

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Novelist, short-story writer and children's author Anita Desai was born in 1937 in Mussoorie, India....

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