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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Meg Rosoff credit Zoe Norfolk

Meg Rosoff was born in 1956 in Boston, USA. She studied at Harvard University and left for England i...

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Leone Ross was born in Coventry, England, on 26 June 1969. She grew up in Jamaica, and studied at t...

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Tony Ross was born in London in 1938. He trained at the Liverpool School of Art and has worked as a ...

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Harry Potter J.K

J. K. Rowling was born in 1965, and grew up in Chepstow, Gwent. She studied at Exeter University, wh...

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Martin Rowson copyright Harry Rook 2013

Martin Rowson is a cartoonist and novelist. He was born in 1959 and studied English at Pembroke Coll...

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Arundhati Roy credit Aijaz Hussain

Arundhati Roy was born in 1960 in Kerala, India. She studied architecture at the Delhi School of Arc...

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Carol Rumens

Carol Rumens was born on 10 December 1944 in Forest Hill, South London. She won a scholarship to gra...

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Rushdie Salman Credit Beowulf Sheehan

Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay (now Mumbai) on 19 June 1947.He went to school in Bombay and at Ru...

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Willy Russell c Paul Cox

Willy Russell was born in Liverpool in 1947. He became a hairdresser on leaving school, then underto...

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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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