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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Francesca Rhydderch c Keith Morris

Francesca Rhydderch was born in Aberystwyth.Following completion of a PhD on Virginia Woolf and Kate...

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Ben Rice was born in Devon in 1972. He studied English at the universities of Newcastle and Oxford b...

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Philip Ridley is an artist, playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. He was born in London and studie...

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Denise Riley c Denise Riley

Dr Denise Riley was born in 1948 in Carlisle. She is Professor of the History of Ideas and of Poetry...

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Gwendoline Riley was born in London in 1979, and grew up on the Wirral. She studied English at Manch...

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Maurice Riordan credit Derek Adams

Maurice Riordan was born in Lisgoold, County Cork, in 1953, and is a teacher, poet and editor. He is...

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Michele Roberts c Viv Pegram

Novelist and poet Michèle Roberts was born in Hertfordshire, England, on 20 May 1949 to a French Cat...

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Michael Symmons Roberts was born in Preston, Lancashire, in 1963. He read Philosophy and Theology at...

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William Owen Roberts was born in 1960 in Bangor, North Wales. He attended the University of Wales fr...

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Robin Robertson is from the north-east coast of Scotland.He is the author of four collections of poe...

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James Robertson 2010 credit Marianne Mitchelson

James Robertson is a poet, novelist, short story writer and editor who writes in English and Scots. ...

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Roger Robinson is a writer and performer who lives between London and Trinidad. He has performed wor...

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Peter Robinson is a British crime writer based in Canada. He was born in Yorkshire and studied at th...

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Monique Roffey is an award winning Trinidadian-born British writer. She has written four novels and ...

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Jane Rogers c Sarah Eyre

Jane Rogers was born in London on 21 July 1952. She was educated at New Hall, Cambridge, and Leicest...

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Romer Stephen 2 CREDIT AVIGAIL SCHIMMEL

Stephen Romer was born in Hertfordshire in 1957, and is a lecturer at the University of Tours in Fra...

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Ronson Jon by Barney Poole for PSYCHO TEST1

Jon Ronson is a nonfiction author, documentary maker and screenwriter. His books, Them: Adventures W...

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Sally Rooney was born in 1991 in Castlebar, County Mayo. She holds degrees in English and American L...

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Dilys Rose was born in Glasgow in 1954 and took a degree at Edinburgh University. She has held three...

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Prolific children's writer, Michael Rosen, was born in Middlesex in 1946 and studied English Languag...

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