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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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Peter Straughan c Casarotto Ramsay website
Peter Straughan

Playwright and screenwriter Peter Straughan was born in 1968 and grew up in Gateshead in the north-e...

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Jeremy Strong

Jeremy Strong writes books for children, mainly of junior school age, and has a special interest in ...

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Jonathan Stroud

Jonathan Stroud was born in Bedford in 1970 and grew up in Bedford and St Albans. He studied Englis...

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Kate Summerscale c Eamonn McCabe website
Kate Summerscale

Kate Summerscale was born in 1965 and brought up in Japan, England and Chile. She studied at Oxford ...

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Luke Sutherland website
Luke Sutherland

Luke Sutherland was born in London and was brought up in Orkney by his adopted parents. He was educa...

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Prof John Sutherland

John Sutherland was born in 1938 and is Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Litera...

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Swift Graham Ekko Von Schwichow
Graham Swift

Novelist Graham Swift was born in London in 1949. He was educated at Dulwich College, Queens' Colleg...

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Meera Syal

Writer and actress Meera Syal was born in 1963 near Wolverhampton in the West Midlands and was educa...

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David Szalay

David Szalay was born in Montreal, Canada in 1974, moved to the UK the following year and has lived ...

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Szirtes Clarissa Upchurch website
George Szirtes

George Szirtes was born in 1948 in Budapest and came to England as a refugee following the Hungarian...

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Levi Tafari

Levi Tafari was born in Liverpool. He is the author of three poetry collections: Duboetry (1987), L...

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DJ Taylor website
D. J. Taylor

D.J. Taylor was born in 1960, studied at St John's College, Oxford and is a writer and critic. His c...

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Sara Taylor

Sara Taylor grew up in Virginia and is currently completing a PhD in Creative Writing at the Univers...

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G. P. Taylor

G. P. Taylor was born and grew up in Scarborough, Yorkshire, moving to London as a teenager. He work...

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Joelle Taylor

Joelle Taylor is an award-winning poet, playwright, author and educator.She was UK Performance Poetr...

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Roma Tearne

Roma Tearne is a painter, installation artist, film maker and writer. She left Sri Lanka aged ten ye...

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Tempest Kate 2014 website
Kae Tempest

Kae Tempest is a playwright, poet, novelist and spoken word artist. They began performing when they ...

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Jeet Thayil credit Basso Cannarsa website
Jeet Thayil

Jeet Thayil was born in Kerala, India in 1959 and was educated in Hong Kong, New York and Bombay. He...

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Marcel Theroux credit Sarah Lee website
Marcel Theroux

Marcel Theroux is a screenwriter, a broadcaster and novelist. He is the son of travel writer Paul Th...

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Adam Thirlwell c Peter Marlow at Magnum website
Adam Thirlwell

Adam Thirlwell was born in London in 1978. He is the author of three novels, Politics, The Escape an...

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