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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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Jon Gower llun Marian Delyth
Jon Gower

Jon Gower grew up in Llanelli, Wales and studied English at Cambridge University.A former BBC Wales'...

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Caroline Graham

Caroline Graham was born on 17 July 1931 in Warwickshire, England. She was a factory worker for thre...

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Linda Grant

Linda Grant was born in Liverpool, England in 1951, and read English at the University of York. Her ...

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Richard Perceval Graves

Richard Perceval Graves was born in Brighton in 1945. He studied Modern History at St. John's Colleg...

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Alasdair GRAY
Alasdair Gray

Alasdair Gray describes himself as a 'self-employed verbal and pictorial artist'. He was born in Rid...

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Keith Gray

Keith Gray was born and brought up in Grimsby. At primary school he avoided books thinking they were...

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Lavinia Greenlaw

Poet and novelist Lavinia Greenlaw was born in London in 1962. She read Modern Arts at Kingston Poly...

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Philippa Gregory

Philippa Gregory was an established historian and writer when she discovered her interest in the Tud...

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Andrew Greig

Andrew Greig was born on 23 September 1951 in Bannockburn, Scotland and grew up in Anstruther, Fife....

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David Greig

David Greig was born in Edinburgh in 1969 and brought up in Nigeria. He studied drama at Bristol Uni...

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Kate Grenville

Kate Grenville was born in Sydney, Australia, and holds degrees from the University of Sydney, the U...

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Griffiths Niall Credit Toril Brancher
Niall Griffiths

Niall Griffiths was born in Liverpool in 1966, studied English, and now lives and works in Aberystwy...

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Trevor Griffiths c Jo Clauwaert web
Trevor Griffiths

Trevor Griffiths was born in 1935 in Manchester. He graduated from Manchester University with a BA i...

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Gross photo Zelie Gross
Philip Gross

Philip Gross was born in 1952 in North Cornwall. His father's history as a wartime refugee from Esto...

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Romesh Gunesekera c Yemisi Blake web
Romesh Gunesekera

Romesh Gunesekera was born in 1954 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He grew up in Sri Lanka and the Philippine...

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Kirsty Gunn
Kirsty Gunn

Kirsty Gunn was born in 1960 in New Zealand and educated at Queen Margaret College and Victoria Univ...

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Xiaolu Guo

Xiaolu Guo is a novelist, essayist, screenwriter and film maker. She was born in south-eastern China...

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Sunetra Gupta

Sunetra Gupta was born in Calcutta, India, on 15 March 1965 and spent her childhood in Ethiopia and ...

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Tanika Photo c Simon Anand
Tanika Gupta

Tanika Gupta was born in 1963 in Chiswick, and is a British playwright of Bengali origin. She read m...

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Abdulrazak Gurnah c Mark Pringle web
Abdulrazak Gurnah

Novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in 1948 on the island of Zanzibar off the coast of East Africa. ...

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