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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Redmond O'Hanlon was born in Dorset and studied at Oxford University. From 1970-1974 he was a Member...

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Meredith Oakes is a playwright and translator, and one of the Royal Court Theatre's new generation o...

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Poet and novelist Ben Okri was born in 1959 in Minna, northern Nigeria, to an Igbo mother and Urhobo...

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Ondaatje Michael Credit Beowulf Sheehan

Michael Ondaatje was born in Sri Lanka on 12 September 1943. He moved to England in 1954, and in 196...

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Ormsby Patrick Duffy

Frank Ormsby was born in 1947, in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, and was educated ...

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Diriye Osman credit Tom Hensher

Diriye Osman was born in Somalia in 1983 and raised in Kenya and London. He is a short story writer,...

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Alice Oswald Kate Mount

Alice Oswald lives in Devon.  She trained as a classicist and was the recipient of an Eric Gregory A...

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Oyeyemi Helen New 2013 credit Piotr Cieplak 2

Helen Oyeyemi is the author of five novels, including White is for Witching, which won a 2010 Somers...

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Julianne Pachico author pic Credit Nick Bradley edit

Julianne Pachico was born in Cambridge (U.K.) and grew up in Cali (Colombia). She is currently compl...

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Padel Ruth Credit Alex Phoundoulakis

Ruth Padel was born in London. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Zoological Soc...

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Playwright, novelist and journalist Louise Page was born in London, in 1955. She was educated at the...

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David Park c Bobbie Hanvey

David Park was born in Belfast in 1953, and now lives in County Down, Northern Ireland. He was educa...

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Nii Ayikwei Parkes is a writer, editor and publisher, who has won acclaim as a children's author, po...

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Parks Tim Credit Basso Cannarsa

Tim Parks was born in Manchester, England in 1954, spent his adolescence in London and studied at Ca...

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Sandeep Parmar was born in Nottingham and raised in Southern California. She received her PhD in Eng...

Don Paterson credit Bob Barkery

Poet, writer and musician Don Paterson was born in Dundee, Scotland, in 1963. He won an Eric Gregory...

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Brian Patten made his name in the 1960s as one of the Liverpool Poets, alongside Adrian Henri and Ro...

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Glenn Patterson was born in Belfast in 1961 and studied on the Creative Writing MA at the University...

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Tom Paulin credit Barney Cokeliss

Born in Leeds, Yorkshire, on 25 January 1949, poet, critic and playwright Tom (Thomas Neilson) Pauli...

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Michelle Paver Charles Shearn

Michelle Paver was born in Nyasaland (now Malawi) in 1960 and moved to England in 1963. She studied ...

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