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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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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Owen Sheers 2015 website

Owen Sheers was born in Fiji in 1974 and brought up in Abergavenny, South Wales. He was educated at ...

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Jeremy Sheldon was born in 1971 in London. He gained an MA in Creative Writing from the University o...

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Warsan Shire

Warsan Shire was born in Kenya in 1988 and is a London-based Somali-British writer. She is the autho...

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Henry Shukman is a poet, travel writer and fiction writer who lives in New Mexico. His novel, Sandst...

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Shuttle Jemimah Kuhfeld website

Penelope Shuttle was born in 1947 in Middlesex, and has lived in Falmouth, Cornwall since 1970, a pl...

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Hannah Silva is an award winning writer and theatre maker. She was born in Dorset, grew up in Suffol...

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Posy Simmonds was born in 1945 and grew up in Berkshire. She studied Graphic Design at the Central S...

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Helen Simpson was born in Bristol and grew up in London. She read English at Oxford University, wher...

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Iain Sinclair 2011 credit Joy Gordon website

Iain Sinclair was born in 1943 in Cardiff, and studied at Trinity College, Dublin, the Courtauld Ins...

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Simon Singh website

Simon Singh is an author, journalist and television producer, specialising in science and mathematic...

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Indra Sinha was born in 1950, the son of an Indian naval officer and an English writer, Irene Elizab...

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