Writers Directory
This unique, searchable database contains profiles of some of the UK and Commonwealth's most important living writers, as well as writers from these regions with whom we have worked. Included in the profiles are biographies, bibliographies, critical reviews and information about awards.
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From Our Blog
We Are Wales: Disparate Voices, Landscapes and Stories
By Kathryn TannJoin the British Council Literature Seminar online, the first in its 36-year history to focus on Wales.
What We're Reading - February 2021
Books that the literature team have been enjoying this month.
What We're Reading December 2020
This month's What We're Reading features a nervous Little Crab, a memoir that is both heartbreaking and heartwarming, and poetry to soothe the soul and expand the mind.
Opportunity: Funding for international literature work
In November we offered grants of between £1500 and £8000 to support the UK literature sector to work with organisations and individuals in selected countries.
From Twitter
@LitBritish RT @deBritish: "I think this book is different to others I've written because it has been inside me for a long time." –@ManonSteffanRos tal…
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@LitBritish Tonight we’ll be having a (zoom) party and you’re all invited. @GaryRaymond_ has curated an amazing programme of We… https://t.co/92U5wMfd9b
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@LitBritish RT @SashaDugdale: Roger Robinson (@rrobinson72) is published in Russian translation by Denis Beznosov as part of a collaboration between @L…
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