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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Aoife Mannix is the author of four collections of poetry: The Trick of Foreign Words (2002); The Ele...

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Hilary Mantel was born in Glossop, Derbyshire, England on 6 July 1952.She studied Law at the London ...

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Sarfraz Manzoor web

Sarfraz Manzoor is a writer, journalist and broadcaster. He was born near Faisalabad in 1971 and lef...

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Mapanje Keith Pattinson

Malawian poet Jack Mapanje taught in Malawi Secondary Schools before he joined the Department of Eng...

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P Marber 2014 credited to Fran Hergessal web

Writer (and occasional director and actor) Patrick Marber was born in London in 1964. He was educate...

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Adam Marek

Adam Marek is an award-winning short story writer. He won the 2011 Arts Foundation Short Story Fello...

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Benjamin Markovits credit Caroline Maclean

Benjamin Markovits grew up in Texas, London and Berlin. He studied literature at Yale, and left an u...

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Adam Mars Jones credit Sarah Lee

Writer and critic Adam Mars-Jones was born in London in 1954. Educated at Westminster School and Tri...

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Yann Martel was born in Salamanca, Spain, in 1963, of Canadian parents who were doing graduate studi...

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S. I. Martin was born in Bedford and has worked as a journalist for The Voice and Bulletin. He is th...

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Valerie Mason-John was born in 1962 in Cambridge, and used the stage name ‘Queenie’, and is now know...

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Allan Massie was born on 19 October 1938 in Singapore, and was educated at Trinity College, Glenalmo...

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Hisham Matar was born in 1970 in New York City, where his father was working for the United Nations....

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Simon Mawer was born in 1948 and spent his childhood in England, Cyprus and Malta. He studied zoolog...

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Glyn Maxwell photo by Kelly Hill

Glyn Maxwell was born in 1962 in Welwyn Garden City, England. He read English at Oxford University a...

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Author photo Sarah May copyright Jeff Hutchinson 2014 web

Sarah May was born in Northumberland, England in 1972. She studied English at London University and ...

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Eimear McBride

Eimear McBride was born in Liverpool in 1976 to Irish parents. The family moved back to Ireland when...

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Playwright and novelist Patrick McCabe was born in 1955 in Clones, County Monaghan, Ireland. He was ...

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Born in a small mining community near Edinburgh, Brian McCabe has been a freelance writer since 1980...

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Alexander McCall Smith Photo Graham Clark

Alexander McCall Smith was born in Zimbabwe and educated both there and in Scotland. He worked as a ...

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