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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Anthony Cartwright was born in Dudley, West Midlands, in 1973. He studied English and American liter...

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Anne Cassidy was born in London in 1952, and worked for some years as a teacher, before becoming a f...

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Russell Celyn Jones is a novelist, feature writer and critic. He was raised in South Wales and now l...

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Aidan Chambers

Aidan Chambers was born in Chester-le-Street, Co. Durham, in 1934. In 1953 after undergoing National...

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Born in Calcutta, India, in 1962, Amit Chaudhuri was brought up in Bombay. He graduated from Univers...

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Tracy Chevalier was born in 1962 and grew up in the US. She studied English at Oberlin College, Ohio...

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Shirley Chew is Professor of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Leeds. S...

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Emma Chichester Clark was born in 1955 and studied at Chelsea School of Art and the Royal College of...

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Lauren Child was born in 1967 and grew up in Marlborough, Wiltshire. She studied Art at Manchester P...

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Kayombo (Kayo) Chingonyi was born in Zambia in 1987. He moved to the UK in 1993. He completed a BA i...

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Playwright Caryl Churchill was born on 3 September 1938 in London and grew up in the Lake District a...

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Born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1965, poet Kate Clanchy was educated in Edinburgh and Oxford. She lived...

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Travel writer, memoirist and children’s author Horatio Clare was born in London in 1973. He read Eng...

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Polly Clark was born in Toronto, Canada in 1968 and was brought up in Cumbria, Lancashire and the Bo...

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Gillian Clarke was born in Cardiff, Wales, and now lives with her family on a smallholding in Ceredi...

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Susanna Clarke was born in Nottingham in 1959, and spent her childhood in Northern England and Scotl...

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Novelist Ann Cleeves was born in Herefordshire in 1954 and in 2014 was awarded an Honorary Doctorate...

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Poet Harry Clifton was born in Dublin in 1952, and educated at Blackrock College and University Coll...

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Novelist Jonathan Coe was born in Birmingham in 1961. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge,...

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Eoin Colfer was born in Wexford, on the south east coast of Ireland, in 1965. He studied in Dublin, ...

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