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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Suhayl Saadi was born in Yorkshire in 1961 of Afghan-Pakistani parents, and grew up in Glasgow, beco...

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Sunjeev Sahota website

Sunjeev Sahota was born in 1981 and grew up in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. His background is Sikh, and...

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Lawrence Sail Helen Sail website

Lawrence Sail was born in London in 1942 and brought up in Exeter. He studied French and German at O...

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Sam La Rose website

Jacob Sam-La Rose is a poet, performer, educator and editor who has performed and taught internation...

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Fiona Sampson photo credit Ekaterina Voskresenskaya website

Fiona Sampson was born in London. After a brief career as a concert violinist, she studied at Oxford...

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Ian Sansom is the author of The Truth About Babies: From A-Z (2002) and Ring Road (2004). He is a r...

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Dreda Say Mitchell C Hugo Dixon

The novelist Dreda Say Mitchell was born in 1965 and was the recipient of the Crime Writers’ Associa...

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Schmidt Michael

Michael Schmidt was born in Mexico on 2 March 1947 and studied at the universities of Harvard and Ox...

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Scudamore James Credit Rose Grimond website

James Scudamore was born in 1976 and grew up in Japan, Brazil and the UK. He lives in London. His fi...

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Marcus Sedgwick was born in 1968 in Kent, and has worked as a bookseller and inside children's publi...

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Rachel Seiffert was born in 1971 in Oxford to German and Australian parents, and was brought up bi-l...

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Copy of Taiye Selasi 2010 Nancy Crampton 3359 website

Selasi was born in London, England, and raised in Brookline, Massachusetts, the elder of twin daught...

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Will Self credit Chris Close 2014 website

Will Self was born in London in 1961. He graduated from Oxford University and began writing fiction,...

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Sudeep Sen studied at St Columba's School in New Delhi and read English Literature for an honours de...

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Born in 1952 in Calcutta, India, Vikram Seth was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Stanfor...

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Qaisra Shahraz is a prize-winning and critically-acclaimed novelist, scriptwriter, peace and gender ...

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Shakespeare Nicholas Credit Caroline Forbes website

Novelist and biographer Nicholas Shakespeare was born in Worcester, England, in 1957. He spent his c...

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Kamila Shamsie by Salma Raza website

Kamila Shamsie, novelist, was born in 1973 in Pakistan.Her first novel, In the City by the Sea, was ...

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Shapcott Jo credit Rachel Shapcott

Poet Jo Shapcott was born in London in 1953. She was an undergraduate at Trinity College, Dublin. Sh...

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Writer and broadcaster William Shawcross was born on 28 May 1946 in Sussex, England, the son of Lord...

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