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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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Mihangel Morgan

Mihangel Morgan was born in 1955 in Aberdare, South Wales and lectures in 20th-century Welsh literat...

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Nicola Morgan

Nicola Morgan was born in 1961. She studied Classics and Philosophy at Cambridge University, then be...

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Michael Morpurgo

Michael Morpurgo is the author of many books for children, five of which have been made into films. ...

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Clare Morrall

Clare Morrall was born in 1952 and grew up in Exeter. She moved to Birmingham to study music and sti...

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Jan Morris

Jan Morris was a historian, author and travel writer.She was born James Humphrey Morris in 1926 and ...

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Blake Morrison

Blake Morrison was born in Skipton, Yorkshire, in 1950. He was educated at the University of Notting...

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Ewan Morrison

Ewan Morrison made his debut as an author with the collection of short stories, The Last Book You Re...

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Sinead Morrissey

Poet Sinéad Morrissey was born on 24 April 1972 in Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. She h...

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Graham Mort

Graham Mort was born in Lancashire and gained a degree in English from the University of Liverpool. ...

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Helen Mort

The poet Helen Mort was born in Sheffield in 1985, and grew up in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. She was ...

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Twm Morys

Twm Morys was born in 1961 in Oxford, and grew up in Wales. He is a poet and writes for television a...

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Kate Mosse

Kate Mosse is an author and broadcaster. The Co-Founder of the Women's Prize for Fiction (formerly k...

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Professor Andrew Motion

Professor Andrew Motion was born in London on 26 October 1952, and read English at University Colleg...

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Fiona Mozley

Fiona Mozley was born in London and grew up in York. She studied History at the University of Cambri...

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Neel Mukherjee

Neel Mukherjee was born in Calcutta, India and educated in Calcutta, Oxford and Cambridge. He is a f...

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Paul Muldoon

Paul Muldoon was born in Portadown, County Armagh, in 1951. He read English at Queen's University, B...

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John Mullan

John Mullan is a Professor of English at University College, London. He studied at Cambridge Univers...

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Raman Mundair

Raman Mundair is a writer and artist. She was born in India and raised in Manchester and Leicester a...

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Tiffany Murray
Tiffany Murray

Tiffany Murray was born in South West Sussex and grew up in Wales. She studied at New York Universit...

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Meja Mwangi

Meja Mwangi was born in Nanyuki, Kenya, in 1948. He was educated at Nanyuki Secondary School, Kenyat...

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