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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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Karnezis Panos Credit Vana Avgerinou web
Panos Karnezis

Panos Karnezis was born in Greece in 1967 and came to England in 1992. He studied engineering and wo...

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Kapka Kassabova c Marti Friedlander
Kapka Kassabova

Kapka Kassabova was born and raised in Bulgaria in the 1970s and 1980s, and educated at the French C...

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Joanna Kavenna credit A. Michaelis
Joanna Kavenna

Joanna Kavenna grew up in various parts of Britain, and has also lived in the USA, France, Germany, ...

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Jackie Kaye Website
Jackie Kay

Jackie Kay was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1961 to a Scottish mother and a Nigerian father. She w...

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Billy Kay web
Billy Kay

Writer and broadcaster Billy Kay was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, in 1951 and read English Literature...

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Keates Jonathan Credit Jerry Bauer web
Jonathan Keates

Jonathan Keates was born in Paris, France in 1946. Educated at Bryanston and Magdalen College, Oxfor...

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Charlotte Keatley

Charlotte Keatley was born in London on 5 January 1960. She studied drama at the University of Manch...

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Brigid Keenan cAlan Waddams web
Brigid Keenan

Brigid Keenan was born in India in 1939. Her career as a journalist began on the Daily Express, movi...

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Richard T Kelly credit Sarah Lee
Richard T. Kelly

Richard T. Kelly was born in 1970 and grew up in Northern Ireland. He is a novelist, screenwriter, b...

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James Kelman 2012 USE CAngusBremner web
James Kelman

James Kelman's early fiction includes the short-story collections An Old Pub Near the Angel (1973) a...

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Stephen Kelman c Jonathan Ring
Stephen Kelman

Stephen Kelman was born in Luton in 1976, and worked in various jobs before deciding to pursue writi...

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Luke Kennard

Luke Kennard was born in Kingston-upon-Thames in 1981 and grew up in Luton. He is a poet and writer ...

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A. L. Kennedy

Novelist and short-story writer A(lison) L(ouise) Kennedy was born in Dundee, Scotland on 22 October...

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Philip Kerr Colour credit Joanna Betts 2013 web
Philip Kerr

Philip Kerr was born in Edinburgh and read Law and Philosophy at Birmingham University, subjects whi...

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Khalvati Mimi new website
Mimi Khalvati

Mimi Khalvati was born in Tehran, Iran, on 28 April 1944. She grew up on the Isle of Wight and was e...

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Ayub Khan-Din

Ayub Khan-Din was born in 1961 and grew up in Salford, Manchester. After leaving school he worked br...

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Matthew Kneale

Matthew Kneale was born in London in 1960, read Modern History at Oxford University and on graduatin...

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Stephen Knight

Stephen Knight was born in Swansea in 1960. He read English at Jesus College, Oxford, after which he...

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Zaffar Kunial web
Zaffar Kunial

Zaffar Kunial is a British poet born in Birmingham, who currently lives in Shipley, Yorkshire. His m...

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Hari Kunzru credit jamie Diamond use web
Hari Kunzru

Hari Kunzru was born in 1969, and grew up in Essex. He studied English at Oxford University, then ga...

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