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This searchable database contains profiles of some of the UK and Commonwealth's most important writers. Each profile includes a biography, bibliography, critical reviews and information about awards.

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Luke Wright

Luke Wright is a poet who regularly performs his work and has been curating poetry and spoken word e...

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Evie Wyld

Evie Wyld was born in 1980 and brought up in London, also spending a lot of time in childhood with h...

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Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch

Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch was born in West Wales in 1966. She studied classics at Cambridge Universit...

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Jane Yeh

The poet Jane Yeh was born in New Jersey. She took her undergraduate degree at Harvard University, a...

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Louisa Young

Louisa Young is the author of a trilogy of novels: Baby Love (1997); Desiring Cairo (1999); and Tree...

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Kerry Young

Kerry Young is a British novelist born in Kingston, Jamaica, to a Chinese father and mother of mixed...

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Benjamin Zephaniah

Poet, novelist and playwright Benjamin Zephaniah was born on 15 April 1958.He grew up in Jamaica and...

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