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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Philip MacCann was born in Manchester, England in 1966. He was educated at Trinity College Dublin an...

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Playwright and novelist Sharman Macdonald was born in Glasgow in 1951. Educated at the University of...

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Robert Macfarlane credit Angus Muir web

Robert Macfarlane was born in Oxford in 1976 and is a travel writer, nature writer and critic. He st...

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Shena Mackay c Charlie Hopkinson web

Shena Mackay was born in Edinburgh in 1944. She left school at the age of 16 after winning a poetry ...

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Lachlan Mackinnon credit Wendy Cope

Lachlan Mackinnon was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1956 and educated at Charterhouse and Christ Chu...

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Tim Mackintosh-Smith is an Arabist, traveller, writer and lecturer. He studied at Oxford University ...

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MacLaverty Bernard Credit Jude MacLaverty

Bernard MacLaverty was born in Belfast in 1942, and moved to Scotland in 1975, where he lived in Edi...

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Rory Maclean c Nick Danziger

Rory MacLean was born and educated in Canada.As a child he made a cardboard-and-crayon world atlas, ...

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Aonghas MacNeacail

Aonghas Macneacail was born in 1942 on the Isle of Skye, and attended Glasgow University from 1968-1...

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Sabrina Mahfouz is a British-Egyptian writer, performer and educator. She was raised in London and C...

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Derek Mahon was born in Belfast in 1941.He studied French Literature at Trinity College, Dublin, and...

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Sara Maitland

Sara Maitland is a novelist and short story writer. Born in 1950, she grew up in Galloway, studied a...

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Malouf David Credit Conrad Del Villar

David Malouf was born in Queensland, Australia, in 1934 to a Lebanese-Christian father and English-J...

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Bidisha Mamata is a British writer and broadcaster based in London. Educated at Oxford University an...

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Aoife Mannix is the author of four collections of poetry: The Trick of Foreign Words (2002); The Ele...

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Hilary Mantel was born in Glossop, Derbyshire, England on 6 July 1952.She studied Law at the London ...

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Sarfraz Manzoor web

Sarfraz Manzoor is a writer, journalist and broadcaster. He was born near Faisalabad in 1971 and lef...

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Mapanje Keith Pattinson

Malawian poet Jack Mapanje taught in Malawi Secondary Schools before he joined the Department of Eng...

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P Marber 2014 credited to Fran Hergessal web

Writer (and occasional director and actor) Patrick Marber was born in London in 1964. He was educate...

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Adam Marek

Adam Marek is an award-winning short story writer. He won the 2011 Arts Foundation Short Story Fello...

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