Writers Directory

Leila Aboulela was born in 1964 in Cairo and grew up in Khartoum. She studied for a degree in Econom...

Genres:

• Drama
• Fiction
• Poetry
• Short Stories

Novelist, biographer and poet Peter Ackroyd was born in London on 5 October 1949. He graduated from ...

Genres:

• Drama
• Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Poetry
• Short Stories

Poet Fleur Adcock was born in Auckland, New Zealand, on 10 February 1934, but spent much of her chil...

Genres:

• Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Poetry
• Short Stories
• Translation

Playwright, poet, short-story and children's writer John Agard was born on 21 June 1949 in British G...

Genres:

• Children
• Drama
• Non-Fiction
• Poetry
• Short Stories
• Translation

Patience Agbabi is a poet, performer and workshop facilitator. She was born in London in 1965 to Nig...

Genres:

• Children
• Drama
• Poetry
• Short Stories

Naomi Alderman was born in London in 1974 and grew up in an Orthodox Jewish community.  After attain...

Genres:

• Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Poetry

Poet, playwright, critic, fiction and science-fiction writer Brian W(ilson) Aldiss was born on 18 Au...

Genres:

• Drama
• Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Poetry
• Short Stories

Writer, journalist and film-maker Tariq Ali was born in Lahore in 1943. He was educated at Oxford Un...

Genres:

• Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Poetry

Monica Ali is the daughter of English and Bangladeshi parents. She came to England aged three years,...

Genres:

• Fiction

Gillian Allnutt was born on 15 January 1949 in London, but spent much of her childhood in Newcastle ...

Genres:

• Drama
• Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Poetry
• Short Stories

David Almond was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1951 and grew up in the small mining town of Felling...

Genres:

• Children
• Drama
• Poetry
• Short Stories

Moniza Alvi was born in Lahore, Pakistan, and came to England when she was a few months old. She gre...

Genres:

• Drama
• Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Poetry
• Short Stories

Martin Amis was born in Oxford in 1949, the son of the writer Kingsley Amis. He was educated in scho...

Genres:

• Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Short Stories

Tahmima Anam is the author of the Bengal Trilogy, which chronicles three generations of the Haque fa...

Genres:

• Fiction

Broadcaster, journalist and biographer Anita Anand was born in 1972 and educated at King’s College, ...

Genres:

• Non-Fiction

Rachel Anderson was born in 1943 and worked for 20 years for BBC Radio, newspapers and magazines as ...

Genres:

• Children
• Drama
• Fiction
• Short Stories

Philip Ardagh is a prolific writer of adult and children's fiction and non-fiction. He was born in 1...

Genres:

• Children
• Fiction
• Non-Fiction

Poet and novelist Simon Armitage was born in 1963 in Huddersfield, England. After studying Geography...

Genres:

• Drama
• Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Poetry

Jake Arnott was born in Buckinghamshire, England in 1961. His novel, The Long Firm, the story of the...

Genres:

• Drama
• Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Poetry

Nadeem Aslam was born in Pakistan in 1966 and moved to the UK as a teenager, his family settling in ...

Genres:

• Fiction