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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Jean Sprackland was born and brought up in Burton-on-Trent and lived for many years in Southport, Me...

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Biographer Hilary Spurling was born in Stockport, England, in 1940. Educated at Somerville College,...

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Novelist and short-story writer Atima Srivastava was born in Mumbai, India, in 1961 and has lived in...

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Lisa St Aubin de Terán was born in London in 1953. She left England at the age of sixteen and, with ...

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Edward St Aubyn was born in 1960 in London, and was educated at Westminster School and Oxford Univer...

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George steiner credit wm logan website

Professor George Steiner was born in Paris on 23 April 1929. His family moved to the United States i...

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Shelagh Stephenson website

Playwright Shelagh Stephenson was born in Northumberland and read drama at Manchester University. Sh...

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Greta Stoddart was born in Henley-on-Thames in 1966, and grew up in Belgium and Oxford. Her poetry h...

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Patsy Stoneman website

Dr Patsy Stoneman is Reader in English at the University of Hull, where she has taught since 1966. H...

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Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard was born Tomás Straüssler on 3 July 1937 in Zlín, Czechoslovakia. He gre...

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Zoe Strachan was born in 1975, brought up in Kilmarnock, Scotland, and later moved to Glasgow. She w...

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Peter Straughan c Casarotto Ramsay website

Playwright and screenwriter Peter Straughan was born in 1968 and grew up in Gateshead in the north-e...

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Jeremy Strong writes books for children, mainly of junior school age, and has a special interest in ...

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Jonathan Stroud was born in Bedford in 1970 and grew up in Bedford and St Albans. He studied Englis...

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Kate Summerscale c Eamonn McCabe website

Kate Summerscale was born in 1965 and brought up in Japan, England and Chile. She studied at Oxford ...

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Luke Sutherland website

Luke Sutherland was born in London and was brought up in Orkney by his adopted parents. He was educa...

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John Sutherland was born in 1938 and is Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Litera...

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Novelist Graham Swift was born in London in 1949. He was educated at Dulwich College, Queens' Colleg...

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Meera Syal CURRENT High Res

Writer and actress Meera Syal was born in 1963 near Wolverhampton in the West Midlands and was educa...

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David Szalay was born in Montreal, Canada in 1974, moved to the UK the following year and has lived ...

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