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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John le Carré (aka David Cornwell) was born in Dorset in 1931, and was educated at Sherborne School ...

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Norman Lebrecht writes on music and cultural affairs. He is currently Assistant Editor and columnist...

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Critic and biographer Hermione Lee was born in Winchester, England in 1948 and grew up in London. Af...

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Born in West London, Tony Lee has been a writer and journalist for television, print and radio for o...

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Tom Lee was born in Essex in 1974 and attended the University of East Anglia, the University of Cali...

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Melissa Lee-Houghton is a poet & writer of short fiction, selected by The Poetry Book Society as one...

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Mike Leigh is an award-winning screen-writer and playwright who was born in Salford, Lancashire, in ...

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Frances Leviston was born in Edinburgh in 1982. She grew up in Sheffield and read English at St Hild...

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Playwright, novelist and poet Deborah Levy (Fellow Royal Society of Literature) was born in 1959 in ...

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Poet Gwyneth Lewis was born in 1959 in Cardiff, Wales. She attended a bilingual school in Pontypridd...

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Marina Lewycka is of Ukrainian origin and was born in a refugee camp in Kiel, Germany, during World ...

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Nell Leyshon is a novelist and playwright. Her first stage play, The Farm (2002), was runner-up for ...

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Peter Paul Anatol Lieven (28 June 1960) is a British author, Orwell Prize-winning journalist, and po...

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Joan Lingard was born in Edinburgh and spent her formative years in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She n...

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Toby Litt was born in Bedfordshire, England, in 1968. He read English at Worcester College, Oxford, ...

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Novelist and children's writer Penelope Lively was born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1933 and brought up ther...

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Critic, novelist and broadcaster Adam Lively was born on 20 January 1961 in Swansea, Wales. His moth...

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Robin Llywelyn was born in 1958 in Llanfrothen, Gwynedd, Wales. He studied Welsh and Irish at the Un...

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Scottish poet and playwright Liz Lochhead was born in 1947, in Motherwell, Lanarkshire. She studied ...

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Born in South London on 28 January 1935, Professor David Lodge is a graduate and Honorary Fellow of ...

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