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The British Council wishes to engage a researcher to conduct in-depth research into the trade publishing and literature sectors in six countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Hay Festival is back, and from 25 May to 4 June, we’ll be there supporting a selected programme of events on the topic of equity and featuring up-and-coming writers from the UK and around the world.
The British Council has commissioned a scoping report into the trade publishing and literature sectors in nine countries in Sub-Saharan Africa in which it operates.
Bernardine Evaristo chairs the 38th British Council Literature Seminar in Berlin from 16-18 March.
Introducing Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists 2023. Every ten years since 1983, Granta magazi...
The London Book Fair returns to Olympia in April 2023 with a programme of seminars and events, inclu...
The International Publishing Fellowship is our flagship publishing programme which supports the prof...
Niall Griffiths was born in Liverpool in 1966, studied English, and now lives and works in Aberystwy...
Sabrina Mahfouz is a British-Egyptian writer, performer and educator. She was raised in London and C...
Kei Miller was born in 1978 and grew up in Kingston, Jamaica. He studied English at the University o...
Monique Roffey is an award winning Trinidadian-born British writer. She has written four novels and ...