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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Joe Dunthorne 2011 credit Angus Muir

Joe Dunthorne was born and brought up in Swansea, and is a graduate of the University of East Anglia...

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Durcan Paul Credit Mark Condren web

Poet Paul Durcan was born in Dublin, Ireland, on 16 October 1944. He was educated at University Coll...

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Geoff Dyer by Matt Stuart

Geoff Dyer was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, in 1958 and was educated at Corpus Christi Colle...

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Professor Terry Eagleton, Chair within the Department of English and Creative Writing at Lancaster U...

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Playwright David Edgar was born in Birmingham on 26 February 1948. He was educated at Oundle School ...

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Zena Edwards is a poet and performer who uses song, movement and global influences as a jump-off for...

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Yvvette Edwards was born in Barnet and grew up in Hackney, London. She has worked for some time in h...

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Susah Elderkin 8 c Johnny Ring web

Susan Elderkin was born in 1968 and grew up in Leatherhead, Surrey. She studied English at Cambridge...

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Elfyn John Briggs web

Menna Elfyn was born in 1951 near Swansea, Wales and is known first and foremost as a poet. She is a...

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Inua Ellams photo c Oliver Holms web

Inua Ellams was born in Nigeria in 1984 and moved to the UK as a child. He is a poet, performer, pla...

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Lucy Ellman c Caroline Forbes web

Novelist Lucy Ellmann was born on 18 October 1956 in Evanston, Illinois, the daughter of biographer ...

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Margaret Elphinstone was born in 1948 in Kent, and educated at Queen's College, London and the Unive...

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TTE photo 2016 credit Lloyd Smith web

Tan Twan Eng was born in Penang in 1972 and grew up in Malaysia. He worked as an intellectual proper...

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Lucy English was born in Sri Lanka and grew up in England. She studied English and American Literatu...

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Anne Enright was born in Dublin in 1962, studied English and Philosophy at Trinity College, Dublin, ...

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Music journalist Kodwo Eshun is the author of More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Ficti...

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Bernardine Evaristo 2013 credit Hayley Madden web

Bernardine Evaristo was born in London to an English mother and Nigerian father.The fourth of eight ...

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Michel Faber 8 c Eva Youren web

Novelist and short-story writer Michel Faber was born in Holland. He moved with his family to Austra...

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Jenni Fagan 2013 cr Urszula Soltys

Jenni Fagan’s critically acclaimed debut novel, The Panopticon, was published in 2012 and named one ...

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Fainlight Kitty Sullivan

Ruth Fainlight was born in New York City in 1931. She was educated in the United States and England,...

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