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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lemnsissay website

Lemn Sissay is the author of five poetry collections: Tender Fingers in a Clenched Fist (1988); Rebe...

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Zoë Skoulding was born in 1967 and has lived in north Wales since 1991, having previously grown up m...

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Gillian Slovo website Charlie hopkinson

Novelist Gillian Slovo was born in 1952 in South Africa, the daughter of Joe Slovo, leader of the So...

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Dorothea Smartt was born and brought up in London and is of Barbadian heritage. She worked for many ...

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Ali Smith 2015 Sarah Wood website

Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962 and lives in Cambridge.   Her books have won and been shortl...

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Zadie Smith Credit Dominique Nabokov 2012 website

Novelist Zadie Smith was born in North London in 1975 to an English father and a Jamaican mother. Sh...

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Ahdaf Soueif website

Novelist Ahdaf Soueif was born in Cairo and educated in Egypt and England, where she studied for a P...

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Alan Spence by Calum Colvin website

Alan Spence was born in Glasgow and is a poet, novelist, short story writer and playwright. He is Pr...

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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 website

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 website

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

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