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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Andrew Greig credit Gunnie Moberg

Andrew Greig was born on 23 September 1951 in Bannockburn, Scotland and grew up in Anstruther, Fife....

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David Greig was born in Edinburgh in 1969 and brought up in Nigeria. He studied drama at Bristol Uni...

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Kate Grenville 2008 by Alice Petty

Kate Grenville was born in Sydney, Australia, and holds degrees from the University of Sydney, the U...

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Griffiths Niall Credit Toril Brancher

Niall Griffiths was born in Liverpool in 1966, studied English, and now lives and works in Aberystwy...

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Trevor Griffiths c Jo Clauwaert web

Trevor Griffiths was born in 1935 in Manchester. He graduated from Manchester University with a BA i...

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Gross photo Zelie Gross

Philip Gross was born in 1952 in North Cornwall. His father's history as a wartime refugee from Esto...

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Romesh Gunesekera c Yemisi Blake web

Romesh Gunesekera was born in 1954 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He grew up in Sri Lanka and the Philippine...

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Kirsty Gunn

Kirsty Gunn was born in 1960 in New Zealand and educated at Queen Margaret College and Victoria Univ...

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Guo Xiaolu Credit Xiaolu Guo

Xiaolu Guo is a novelist, essayist, screenwriter and film maker. She was born in south-eastern China...

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Sunetra Gupta was born in Calcutta, India, on 15 March 1965 and spent her childhood in Ethiopia and ...

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Tanika Photo c Simon Anand

Tanika Gupta was born in 1963 in Chiswick, and is a British playwright of Bengali origin. She read m...

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Abdulrazak Gurnah c Mark Pringle web

Novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in 1948 on the island of Zanzibar off the coast of East Africa. ...

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Professor Andrew (John) Gurr was born on 23 December 1936 in Leicester. He grew up in New Zealand an...

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John Guy was born in Australia in 1949 and came to England in 1952, growing up in Watford and Lancas...

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Helon Habila 2010

Poet and prose fiction writer Helon Habila studied Literature at the University of Jos and lectured ...

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Mark Haddon c Rory Carnegie

Mark Haddon was born in Northampton in 1962.He graduated from Oxford University in 1981, returning l...

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Hadfield Caroline Forbes

Jen Hadfield was born in Cheshire in 1978, and studied English Language and Literature at the Univer...

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Tessa Hadley lives in Cardiff and teaches Literature and Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, he...

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Ben Haggarty became a professional performance storyteller in 1981, having first worked as an 'image...

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Rahman Zia c Katherine Rose

A Western novelist with Eastern roots, Zia Haider Rahman was born in the Bangladesh region of Sylhet...

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