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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Poet and critic Craig Raine was born on 3 December 1944 in Bishop Auckland, England, and read Englis...

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Ross Raisin was born in Yorkshire in 1979. He studied English at King's College, London and later fo...

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Ravinder Randhawa was born in India and grew up in Warwickshire.  In 1984 she founded the Asian Wom...

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Ian Rankin is the UK's number one best-selling crime writer. He lives in Edinburgh, and writes abou...

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Frederic Raphael was born in 1931 in Chicago and moved to England as a boy. He was educated at Chart...

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Mark Ravenhill

Playwright Mark Ravenhill was educated at Bristol University where he studied English and Drama, and...

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Piers Paul Read c Jonathan Ring

Novelist and playwright Piers Paul Read was born in Beaconsfield on 7 March 1941. He was educated at...

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Celia Rees was born in 1949 and grew up in Solihull, England. She took a degree in History and Polit...

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Philip Reeve was born and brought up in Brighton, and has since lived in Devon and Dartmoor. He work...

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Christopher Reid was born in Hong Kong in 1949, educated in England, and studied at Oxford Universit...

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Alastair Reid

Alastair Reid was a poet, a prose writer, a translator, and a traveller. Born in Galloway, he served...

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Oliver Reynolds

Oliver Reynolds was born in 1957 in Cardiff, Wales. He was educated at the University of Hull, where...

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Dan Rhodes c Emmily Rhodes

Dan Rhodes was born in 1972. He studied Humanities at the University of Glamorgan and later returned...

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Francesca Rhydderch c Keith Morris

Francesca Rhydderch was born in Aberystwyth.Following completion of a PhD on Virginia Woolf and Kate...

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Ben Rice was born in Devon in 1972. He studied English at the universities of Newcastle and Oxford b...

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Philip Ridley is an artist, playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. He was born in London and studie...

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Dr Denise Riley was born in 1948 in Carlisle. She is Professor of the History of Ideas and of Poetry...

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Gwendoline Riley was born in London in 1979, and grew up on the Wirral. She studied English at Manch...

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Maurice Riordan was born in Lisgoold, County Cork, in 1953, and is a teacher, poet and editor. He is...

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Michele Roberts c Viv Pegram

Novelist and poet Michèle Roberts was born in Hertfordshire, England, on 20 May 1949 to a French Cat...

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