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1. 812 relations: A. C. Grayling, A. L. Kennedy, A. N. Wilson, A. S. Byatt, Aamer Hussein, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Adam Fergusson (MEP), Adam Foulds, Adam Mars-Jones, Adam Nicolson, Adam Phillips (psychologist), Adam Sisman, Adam Thirlwell, Adam Zamoyski, Adèle Geras, Adjoa Andoh, Afua Hirsch, Ahdaf Soueif, Aidan Chambers, Alain de Botton, Alain Mabanckou, Alan Ayckbourn, Alan Brownjohn, Alan Garner, Alan Hollinghurst, Alan Jenkins (poet), Alan Judd, Alan Warner (novelist), Alastair Niven, Alberto Manguel, Alexander McCall Smith, Alexandra Harris, Alexandra Pringle, Ali Smith, Alice Munro, Alison Light, Allan Massie, Amin Maalouf, Aminatta Forna, Amit Chaudhuri, Amitav Ghosh, Amy Sackville, Andrea Levy, Andrea Stuart, Andrew Davies (writer), Andrew Holgate, Andrew Kidd, Andrew Lycett, Andrew McMillan (poet), Andrew Miller (novelist), ... Expand index (762 more) » « Shrink index

2. 1820 establishments in the United Kingdom
3. British literature
4. Organizations established in 1820

A. C. Grayling

Anthony Clifford Grayling (born 3 April 1949) is a British philosopher and author.

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A. L. Kennedy

Alison Louise Kennedy (born 22 October 1965) is a Scots writer, academic and stand-up comedian.

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A. N. Wilson

Andrew Norman Wilson (born 27 October 1950) is an English writer and newspaper columnist known for his critical biographies, novels and works of popular history.

See Royal Society of Literature and A. N. Wilson

A. S. Byatt

Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (24 August 1936 – 16 November 2023), known professionally by her former married name, A.S. Byatt, was an English critic, novelist, poet and short-story writer.

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Aamer Hussein

Aamer Hussein (born 8 April 1955, Karachi) is a Pakistani critic Aamer Hussein official website.

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Abdulrazak Gurnah

Abdulrazak Gurnah (born 20 December 1948) is a Tanzanian-born British novelist and academic.

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Adam Fergusson (MEP)

Adam Dugdale Fergusson (born 10 July 1932) is a British journalist, author and Conservative Party politician who served one term in the European Parliament as an MEP.

See Royal Society of Literature and Adam Fergusson (MEP)

Adam Foulds

Adam Samuel James Foulds FRSL (born 8 October 1974) is a British novelist and poet.

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Adam Mars-Jones

Adam Mars-Jones (born 26 October 1954) is a British novelist and literary and film critic.

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Adam Nicolson

Adam Nicolson, (born 12 September 1957) is an English author who has written about history, landscape, great literature and the sea.

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Adam Phillips (psychologist)

Adam Phillips (19 September 1954"Phillips, Adam", Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2011; online edn, Nov 2011) is a British psychoanalytic psychotherapist and essayist.

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Adam Sisman

Adam Sisman (born 17 March 1954) is a British writer, editor and biographer.

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Adam Thirlwell

Adam Thirlwell (born 22 August 1978) is a British novelist.

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Adam Zamoyski

Adam Zamoyski (born 11 January 1949) is a British historian and author descended from the historically important Polish nobility.

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Adèle Geras

Adèle Daphne Geras (née Weston; born 15 March 1944) is an English writer for young children, teens and adults.

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Adjoa Andoh

Adjoa Aiboom Helen Andoh HonFRSL (born 14 January 1963) is a British actress.

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Afua Hirsch

Afua Hirsch FRSL (born 1981) is a British writer and broadcaster.

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Ahdaf Soueif

Ahdaf Soueif (أهداف سويف; born 23 March 1950) is an Egyptian novelist and political and cultural commentator.

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Aidan Chambers

Aidan Chambers (born 27 December 1934) is a British author of children's and young-adult novels.

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Alain de Botton

Alain de Botton (born 20 December 1969) is a Swiss-born British author and public speaker.

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Alain Mabanckou

Alain Mabanckou (born 24 February 1966) is a novelist, journalist, poet, and academic, a French citizen born in the Republic of the Congo, he is currently a Professor of Literature at UCLA.

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Alan Ayckbourn

Sir Alan Ayckbourn (born 12 April 1939) is a prolific British playwright and director.

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Alan Brownjohn

Alan Charles Brownjohn (28 July 1931 – 23 February 2024) was an English poet and novelist.

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Alan Garner

Alan Garner (born 17 October 1934) is an English novelist best known for his children's fantasy novels and his retellings of traditional British folk tales.

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Alan Hollinghurst

Alan James Hollinghurst (born 26 May 1954) is an English novelist, poet, short story writer and translator.

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Alan Jenkins (poet)

Alan Jenkins (born 1955) is an English poet.

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Alan Judd

Alan Judd (born 1946) is a pseudonym used by Alan Edwin Petty.

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Alan Warner (novelist)

Alan Warner (born 1964) is a Scottish novelist who grew up in Connel, near Oban.

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Alastair Niven

Alastair Neil Robertson Niven Hon FRSL (born 25 February 1944) is an English literary scholar and author.

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Alberto Manguel

Alberto Manguel (born March 13, 1948, in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine-Canadian anthologist, translator, essayist, novelist, editor, and a former Director of the National Library of Argentina.

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Alexander McCall Smith

Sir Alexander "Sandy" McCall Smith (born 24 August 1948) is a Scottish legal scholar and author of fiction.

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Alexandra Harris

Alexandra Harris FRSL (born 1981) is a British writer and academic.

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Alexandra Pringle

Alexandra Pringle, Hon FRSL (born 1953), is a British publisher.

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Ali Smith

Ali Smith CBE FRSL (born 24 August 1962) is a Scottish author, playwright, academic and journalist.

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Alice Munro

Alice Ann Munro (10 July 1931 – 13 May 2024) was a Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013.

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Alison Light

Alison Light, (born 4 August 1955) is a writer, critic and independent scholar.

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Allan Massie

Allan Johnstone Massie (born 16 October 1938) is a Scottish journalist, columnist, sports writer and novelist.

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Amin Maalouf

Amin Maalouf (أمين معلوف; born 25 February 1949) is a Lebanese-born French, Modern Arab writers.

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Aminatta Forna

Aminatta Forna, OBE, is a British writer of Scottish and Sierra Leonean ancestry.

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Amit Chaudhuri

Amit Chaudhuri (born 15 May 1962) is a novelist, poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, singer, and music composer from India.

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Amitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh (born 11 July 1956), Encyclopædia Britannica is an Indian writer.

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Amy Sackville

Amy Sackville (born 1981) is a British writer whose debut novel The Still Point was the winner of the 2010 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.

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Andrea Levy

Andrea Levy (7 March 1956 – 14 February 2019) was an English author best known for the novels Small Island (2004) and The Long Song (2010).

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Andrea Stuart

Andrea Stuart (born 1962), Goodreads.

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Andrew Davies (writer)

Andrew Wynford Davies (born 20 September 1936) is a Welsh screenwriter and novelist, best known for his television adaptations of To Serve Them All My Days, House of Cards, Middlemarch, Pride and Prejudice, Bleak House, War & Peace, and his original serial A Very Peculiar Practice.

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Andrew Holgate

Andrew James Headley Holgate (born 31 December 1958 in Reigate) is a British journalist and critic.

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Andrew Kidd

Andrew Kidd Hon. FRSL, is a British publisher, who has served as the CEO of the Arvon Foundation since 2019.

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Andrew Lycett

Andrew Michael Duncan Lycett (born 1948) FRSL is an English biographer and journalist.

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Andrew McMillan (poet)

Andrew McMillan (born 1988) is an English poet and lecturer.

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Andrew Miller (novelist)

Andrew Brooke Miller FRSL (born 29 April 1960) is an English novelist.

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Andrew Motion

Sir Andrew Motion (born 26 October 1952) is an English poet, novelist, and biographer, who was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009.

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Andrew O'Hagan

Andrew O'Hagan (born 1968) is a Scottish novelist and non-fiction author.

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Andrew Roberts, Baron Roberts of Belgravia

Andrew Roberts, Baron Roberts of Belgravia, (born 13 January 1963), is an English popular historian, journalist and member of the House of Lords.

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Angela Huth

Angela Huth (born 29 August 1938) is an English novelist and journalist.

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Angus Wilson

Sir Angus Frank Johnstone-Wilson, CBE (11 August 191331 May 1991) was an English novelist and short story writer.

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Anita Desai

Anita Desai (born Anita Mazumdar; 24 June 1937), is an Indian novelist and the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Anjali Joseph

Anjali Joseph (born 1978) is an Indian novelist.

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Ann Schlee

Ann Schlee FRSL (26 May 1934 – 1 November 2023) was an English novelist.

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Ann Thwaite

Ann Thwaite (born 4 October 1932) is a British writer who is the author of five major biographies.

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Ann Wroe

Ann Wroe FRSL is an English author and columnist who has been the obituaries editor of The Economist since 2003.

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Anna Burns

Anna Burns FRSL (born 7 March 1962) is an author from Northern Ireland.

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Anne Applebaum

Anne Elizabeth Applebaum (born July 25, 1964) is an American journalist and historian.

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Anne Carson

Anne Patricia Carson (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, classicist, and professor.

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Anne Enright

Anne Teresa Enright (born 11 October 1962) is an Irish writer.

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Anne Fine

Anne Fine OBE FRSL (born 7 December 1947) is an English writer.

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Anne Michaels

Anne Michaels (born 15 April 1958) is a Canadian poet and novelist whose work has been translated and published in over 45 countries.

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Anne Sebba

Anne Sebba (née Rubinstein; born 31 December 1951) is a British biographer, lecturer and journalist.

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Annie Ernaux

Annie Thérèse Blanche Ernaux (born 1 September 1940) is a French writer who was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory".

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Annie Freud

Annie Freud FRSL (born 1948) is an English poet and artist.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

Anthony Anaxagorou is a British-born Cypriot poet, writer, publisher and educator.

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Anthony Joseph

Anthony Joseph FRSL (born 12 November 1966) is a British/Trinidadian poet, novelist, musician and academic.

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Antonia Fraser

Lady Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser, (Pakenham; born 27 August 1932) is a British author of history, novels, biographies and detective fiction.

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Antony Beevor

Sir Antony James Beevor, (born 14 December 1946) is a British military historian.

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April De Angelis

April De Angelis (born April 1960) is an English dramatist of part Sicilian descent.

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Arabic

Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.

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Armando Iannucci

Armando Giovanni Iannucci (born 28 November 1963) is a Scottish satirist, writer, director, producer, performer and panellist.

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Artemis Cooper

Artemis Cooper, Lady Beevor FRSL (born the Hon. Alice Clare Antonia Opportune Cooper; 22 April 1953) is a British writer, primarily of biographies.

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Arthur Koestler

Arthur Koestler (Kösztler Artúr; 5 September 1905 – 1 March 1983) was a Hungarian-born author and journalist.

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Athol Fugard

Athol Fugard OIS HonFRSL (born 11 June 1932) is a South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director widely regarded as South Africa's greatest playwright.

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Attica Locke

Attica Locke (born 1974 in Houston, Texas) is an American fiction author and writer/producer for television and film.

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Award

An award, sometimes called a distinction, is given to a recipient as a token of recognition of excellence in a certain field.

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Barbara Trapido

Barbara (Louise) Trapido (born 1941 as Barbara Schuddeboom), is a British novelist born in South Africa with German, Danish and Dutch ancestry.

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Barney Norris

Barney Norris (born 1987) is a British writer.

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Bee Wilson

Beatrice Dorothy "Bee" Wilson is a British food writer and journalist.

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Ben Macintyre

Benedict Richard Pierce Macintyre (born 25 December 1963) is a British author, reviewer and columnist for The Times newspaper.

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Ben Myers

Benjamin Myers (born January 1976) is an English writer and journalist.

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Ben Okri

Sir Ben Golden Emuobowho Okri (born 15 March 1959) is a Nigerian-born British poet and novelist.

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Benson Medal

The Benson Medal is a medal awarded by the Royal Society of Literature in the UK.

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Bernard O'Donoghue

Bernard O'Donoghue FRSL (born 14 December 1945) is a contemporary Irish poet and academic.

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Bernardine Evaristo

Bernardine Anne Mobolaji Evaristo (born 28 May 1959) is a British author and academic.

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Beverley Naidoo

Beverley Naidoo is a South African author of children's books who lives in the UK.

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Bevis Hillier

Bevis Hillier (born 28 March 1940) is an English art historian, author and journalist.

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Bhanu Kapil

Bhanu Kapil (born 1968) is a British-born poet and author of Indian descent.

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Bibi Bakare-Yusuf

Bibi Bakare-Yusuf Hon.

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Bishop of Salisbury

The Bishop of Salisbury is the ordinary of the Church of England's Diocese of Salisbury in the Province of Canterbury.

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Bishop of St Davids

The Bishop of St Davids is the ordinary of the Church in Wales Diocese of St Davids.

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Blake Morrison

Philip Blake Morrison FRSL (born 8 October 1950) is an English poet and author who has published in a wide range of fiction and non-fiction genres.

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Bola Agbaje

Bola Agbaje (born 1981) is a British-born playwright of Nigerian origin.

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Bonnie Greer

Bonnie Greer, OBE FRSL (born 16 November 1948) is an American-British playwright, novelist, critic and broadcaster, who has lived in the UK since 1986.

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Boyd Tonkin

Boyd Tonkin Hon.

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Brian Patten

Brian Patten (born 7 February 1946) is an English poet and author.

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Bruce Arnold (author)

Bruce Arnold (6 September 1936 – 2 May 2024) was an English journalist and author who lived in Ireland from 1957.

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Bryan Talbot

Bryan Talbot (born 24 February 1952) is a British comics artist and writer, best known as the creator of The Adventures of Luther Arkwright and its sequel Heart of Empire, as well as the ''Grandville'' series of books.

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Bryony Lavery

Bryony Lavery (born 1947) is a British dramatist, known for her successful and award-winning 1998 play Frozen.

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C. K. Stead

Christian Karlson "Karl" Stead (born 17 October 1932) is a New Zealand writer whose works include novels, poetry, short stories, and literary criticism.

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Candia McWilliam

Candia Frances Juliet McWilliam (born 1 July 1955) is a Scottish author.

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Carol Ann Duffy

Dame Carol Ann Duffy (born 23 December 1955) is a Scottish poet and playwright.

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Carol Rumens

Carol Rumens FRSL (born 10 December 1944) is a British poet.

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Carole Angier

Carole Angier (born 30 October 1943) is an English biographer.

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Caroline Moorehead

Caroline Mary Moorehead (born 28 October 1944) is a human rights journalist and biographer.

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Caryl Phillips

Caryl Phillips (born 13 March 1958) is a Kittitian-British novelist, playwright and essayist.

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Carys Bray

Carys Bray FRSL is a British writer whose 2014 debut novel, A Song for Issy Bradley, was critically acclaimed.

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Catherine Johnson (novelist)

Catherine Johnson FRSL (born 1962) is a British author and screenwriter.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic.

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Charles III

Charles III (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is King of the United Kingdom and the 14 other Commonwealth realms.

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Charles Nicholl (author)

Charles Nicholl is an English author specializing in works of history, biography, literary detection, and travel.

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Cherry Smyth

Cherry Smyth (born 1960) is a London based, Irish academic, poet, writer and art critic.

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Chibundu Onuzo

Imachibundu Oluwadara Onuzo (born 1991) is a Nigerian novelist.

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China Miéville

China Tom Miéville (born 6 September 1972) is a British speculative fiction writer and literary critic.

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Chinese language

Chinese is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in China.

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Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe (born Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe; 16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013) was a Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic who is regarded as a central figure of modern African literature.

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Chloe Aridjis

Chloe Aridjis (born 1971) is a Mexican and American novelist and writer.

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Christopher Hampton

Sir Christopher James Hampton (Horta, Azores, 26 January 1946) is a British playwright, screenwriter, translator and film director.

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Christopher Hope (novelist)

Christopher Hope, FRSL (born 26 February 1944) is a South African novelist and poet who is known for his controversial works dealing with racism and politics in South Africa.

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Christopher MacLehose

Christopher Colin MacLehose CBE, Hon.

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Christopher Ondaatje

Sir Philip Christopher Ondaatje, Earl of Rothes (born 22 February 1933) is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian–English businessman, philanthropist, adventurer, writer and bob-sledding Olympian for Canada.

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Christopher Reid (writer)

Christopher John Reid, FRSL (born 13 May 1949) is a British poet, essayist, cartoonist, and writer.

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Christopher Ricks

Sir Christopher Bruce Ricks (born 18 September 1933) is a British literary critic and scholar.

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Ciaran Carson

Ciaran Gerard Carson (9 October 1948 – 6 October 2019) was a Northern Ireland-born poet and novelist.

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Claire Armitstead

Claire Armitstead FRSL is a British journalist and author.

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Claire Harman (writer)

Claire Harman is a British literary critic and book reviewer who has written for the Times Literary Supplement, Literary Review, Evening Standard, the Sunday Telegraph and other publications.

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Claire Tomalin

Claire Tomalin (née Delavenay; born 20 June 1933) is an English journalist and biographer known for her biographies of Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Samuel Pepys, Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft.

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Clare Pollard

Clare Pollard FRSL (born 1978, England) is a British writer (poet, novelist and playwright), literary translator and (prize jury) critic.

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Claudia Rankine

Claudia Rankine (born September 4, 1963) is an American poet, essayist, playwright and the editor of several anthologies.

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Colin Grant (author)

Colin Grant (born 1961, Hitchin, England) is a British writer of Jamaican origin, who is the author of several books, including a 2008 biography of Marcus Garvey entitled Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey and His Dream of Mother Africa and a 2012 memoir, Bageye at the Wheel.

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Colin Thubron

Colin Gerald Dryden Thubron (born 14 June 1939) is a British travel writer and novelist.

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Colm Tóibín

Colm Tóibín (born 30 May 1955) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, critic, playwright and poet.

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Companion of Literature

The title Companion of Literature is the highest award bestowed by the Royal Society of Literature.

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Connop Thirlwall

Connop Thirlwall (11 January 1797 – 27 July 1875) was an English bishop (in Wales) and historian.

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Cornelia Funke

Cornelia Maria Funke (born 10 December 1958) is a German author of children's fiction.

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Craig Raine

Craig Anthony Raine, FRSL (born 3 December 1944) is an English contemporary poet.

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Cressida Connolly

Cressida Connolly FRSL (born 14 January 1960) is an English novelist, biographer, journalist and critic.

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Cressida Cowell

Cressida Cowell FRSL (born 15 April 1966) is a British children's author, popularly known for the book series, How to Train Your Dragon, which has subsequently become an award-winning film franchise as adapted by DreamWorks Animation.

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Croatian language

Croatian (hrvatski) is the standardised variety of the Serbo-Croatian pluricentric language mainly used by Croats.

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Cynan Jones

Cynan Jones (born 1975) is a Welsh writer, who lives and works in Ceredigion.

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D. J. Taylor (writer)

David John Taylor (born 1960) is a British critic, novelist and biographer, who was born and raised in Norfolk.

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Daisy Hay

Daisy Hay is Associate Professor in English Literature and Life Writing at the University of Exeter and an author of non-fiction.

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Daljit Nagra

Daljit Nagra (born 1966) is a British poet whose debut collection, Look We Have Coming to Dover! – a title alluding to W. H. Auden's Look, Stranger!, D. H. Lawrence's Look! We Have Come Through! and by epigraph also to Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach" – was published by Faber in February 2007.

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Dame

Dame is an honorific title and the feminine form of address for the honour of damehood in many Christian chivalric orders, as well as the British honours system and those of several other Commonwealth realms, such as Australia and New Zealand, with the masculine form of address being Sir.

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Damian Barr

Damian Leighton Barr (born 20 July 1976) is a Scottish writer and broadcaster.

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Daniel Hahn

Daniel Hahn (born 26 November 1973) is a British writer, editor and translator.

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David Almond

David Almond (born 15 May 1951) is a British author who has written many novels for children and young adults from 1998, each one receiving critical acclaim.

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David Baddiel

David Lionel Baddiel (born 28 May 1964) is an English comedian, presenter, screenwriter, author and singer.

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David Cairns (writer)

David Adam Cairns (born 8 June 1926, Loughton, Essex) is a British journalist, non-fiction writer and musician.

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David Cannadine

Sir David Nicholas Cannadine (born 7 September 1950) is a British author and historian who specialises in modern history, Britain and the history of business and philanthropy.

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David Caute

John David Caute (born 16 December 1936 in Alexandria, Egypt) is a British author, novelist, playwright, historian and journalist.

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David Constantine

David John Constantine (born 1944) is an English poet, author and translator.

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David Dabydeen

David Dabydeen FRSL (born 9 December 1955) is a Guyanese-born broadcaster, novelist, poet and academic.

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David Dilks

David N. Dilks, FRHistS, FRSL (born 17 March 1938) is a British historian and former professor of International History at the University of Leeds.

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David Edgar (playwright)

David Edgar (born 26 February 1948) is a British playwright and writer who has had more than sixty of his plays published and performed on stage, radio and television around the world, making him one of the most prolific dramatists of the post-1960s generation in Great Britain.

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David Gilmour (historian)

The Honourable Sir David Robert Gilmour, 4th Baronet, (born 14 November 1952) is a British writer and historian.

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David Grossman

David Grossman (דויד גרוסמן; born January 25, 1954) is an Israeli author.

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David Hare (playwright)

Sir David Rippon Hare is an English playwright, screenwriter and theatre director.

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David Harsent

David Harsent (born in Devon in 1942) is an English poet who for some time earned his living as a TV scriptwriter and crime novelist.

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David Kynaston

David Thomas Anthony Kynaston (born 30 July 1951 in Aldershot) is an English historian specialising in the social history of England.

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David Lodge (author)

David John Lodge CBE (born 28 January 1935) is an English author and critic.

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David Malouf

David George Joseph Malouf (born 20 March 1934) is an Australian poet, novelist, short story writer, playwright and librettist.

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David Mitchell (author)

David Stephen Mitchell (born 12 January 1969) is an English novelist, television writer, and screenwriter.

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David Morley (poet)

David Morley is a British poet, professor, and ecologist.

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David Olusoga

David Adetayo Olusoga (born January 1970) is a British historian, writer, broadcaster, presenter and filmmaker.

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David Plante

David Robert Plante (born March 4, 1940, in Providence, Rhode Island) is an American novelist, diarist, and memoirist of both French-Canadian and North American Indian descent.

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David Profumo

David John Profumo, FRSL (born 20 October 1955), is an English novelist.

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David Pryce-Jones

David Eugene Henry Pryce-Jones (born 15 February 1936) is a British conservative author and commentator.

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David Runciman

David Walter Runciman, 4th Viscount Runciman of Doxford, (born 1 March 1967), is an English academic and podcaster who until 2024 taught politics and history at the University of Cambridge, where he was Professor of Politics.

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David Sutton (writer)

David Sutton (born 1966) is the current editor of the Fortean Times magazine.

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Dea Birkett

Dea Birkett (born 1958) is a British writer, journalist, broadcaster and a former circus performer.

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Debjani Chatterjee

Debjani Chatterjee MBE (born 21 November 1952) is an Indian-born British poet and writer.

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Deborah Jay

Deborah Jay (born 24 October 1961) is a British diver.

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Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy (born 6 August 1959) is a British novelist, playwright and poet.

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Deborah Moggach

Deborah Moggach (née Hough; born 28 June 1948) is an English novelist and screenwriter.

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Deborah Smith (translator)

Deborah Smith (born 15 December 1987) is a British translator of Korean fiction.

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Deirdre Osborne

Deirdre Osborne Hon.

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Denise Riley

Denise Riley (born 1948, Carlisle) is an English poet and philosopher.

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Deryn Rees-Jones

Deryn Rees-Jones (born 1968) is an Anglo-Welsh poet, who lives and works in Liverpool.

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Diana Evans

Diana Omo Evans FRSL (born 1972) is a British novelist, journalist and critic who was born and lives in London.

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Diana Souhami

Diana Souhami (born 25 August 1940) is an English writer of biographies, short stories and plays.

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Dick Davis (translator)

Dick Davis (born 1945) is an English–American Persophile and Iranologist, poet, university professor, a vocal dissident critic of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and award-winning translator of Persian verse, who is affiliated with the literary movement known as New Formalism in American poetry.

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Diran Adebayo

Oludiran "Diran" Adebayo FRSL (born 30 August 1968) is a British novelist, cultural critic and academic best known for his 1996 novel Some Kind of Black.

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Don Mee Choi

Don Mee Choi is a Korean-American poet and translator.

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Don Paterson

Donald Paterson (born 1963 in Dundee) is a Scottish poet, writer and musician.

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Donald Adamson

Donald Adamson, (30 March 1939 – 18 January 2024), was a British literary scholar and historian.

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Dorothea Smartt

Dorothea Smartt FRSL (born 1963) is an English-born poet of Barbadian descent.

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Douglas Dunn

Douglas Eaglesham Dunn, OBE (born 23 October 1942) is a Scottish poet, academic, and critic.

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Dubravka Ugrešić

Dubravka Ugrešić (27 March 1949 – 17 March 2023) was a Yugoslav-Croatian and Dutch writer.

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Duke of Albany

Duke of Albany is a peerage title that has occasionally been bestowed on younger sons in the Scottish and later the British royal family, particularly in the Houses of Stuart and Hanover.

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Duncan Fallowell

Duncan Fallowell (born 26 September 1948) is an English novelist, travel writer, memoirist, journalist and critic.

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Earl of Gainsborough

Earl of Gainsborough is a title that has been created twice, once in the Peerage of England and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

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Edmund de Waal

Edmund Arthur Lowndes de Waal, (born 10 September 1964) is a contemporary English artist, master potter and author.

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Edna O'Brien

Josephine Edna O'Brien (15 December 1930 – 27 July 2024) was an Irish novelist, memoirist, playwright, poet, and short-story writer.

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Edward Lucie-Smith

John Edward McKenzie Lucie-Smith (born 27 February 1933), known as Edward Lucie-Smith, is a Jamaican-born English writer, poet, art critic, curator and broadcaster.

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Edward Mendelson

Edward Mendelson (born March 15, 1946) is a professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University.

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Edward St Aubyn

Edward St Aubyn (born 1960) is an English author and journalist.

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Elaine Showalter

Elaine Showalter (born January 21, 1941) is an American literary critic, feminist, and writer on cultural and social issues.

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Eley Williams

Eleanor Williams is a British writer.

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Elif Shafak

Elif Shafak (Elif Şafak,; née Bilgin; born 25 October 1971) is a Turkish-British novelist, essayist, public speaker, political scientist and activist.

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Elizabeth Day

Elizabeth Day (born 10 November 1978) is an English novelist, journalist and broadcaster.

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Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 19268 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022.

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Ella Hickson

Ella Hickson (born 1985) is a British playwright and theatrical director, living in London.

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Ellah Wakatama Allfrey

Ellah Wakatama, OBE, Hon. FRSL (born 16 September 1966), is the Editor-at-Large at Canongate Books, a senior Research Fellow at Manchester University, and Chair of the AKO Caine Prize for African Writing.

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Elleke Boehmer

Elleke Boehmer, FRSL, FRHistS (born 1961) is Professor of World Literature in English at the University of Oxford, and a Professorial Governing Body Fellow at Wolfson College.

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Emily Berry

Emily Berry (born 1981) is an English poet and writer.

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Emma Dabiri

Emma Dabiri FRSL (born 25 March 1979) is an Irish author, academic, and broadcaster.

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Emma Rice

Emma Juliet Rice (born August 1967) is a British actor, director and writer.

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Emma Thompson

Dame Emma Thompson (born 15 April 1959) is a British actress and writer.

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Encore Award

The £15,000 Encore Award for the best second novel was first awarded in 1990.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Erica Wagner

Erica Wagner is an American author and critic, living in London, England.

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Esther Freud

Esther Freud (born 2 May 1963) is a British novelist.

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Eva Hoffman

Eva Hoffman (born Ewa Wydra on 1 July 1945) is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning writer and academic.

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Evie Wyld

Evelyn Rose Strange "Evie" Wyld (born 16 June 1980) is an Anglo-Australian author.

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F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich

Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon, (1 November 1782 – 28 January 1859), styled The Honourable F. J. Robinson until 1827 and known between 1827 and 1833 as The Viscount Goderich (pronounced), the name by which he is best known to history, was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1827 to 1828.

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Faïza Guène

Faïza Guène (born 7 June 1985) is a French writer and director, best known for her two novels, Kiffe kiffe demain and Du rêve pour les oufs.

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Fellow

A fellow is a concept whose exact meaning depends on context.

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Ferdinand Dennis

Ferdinand Dennis (born 18 March 1956), British Council, Literature Matters.

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Ferdinand Mount

Sir William Robert Ferdinand Mount, 3rd Baronet, FRSL (born 2 July 1939), is a British writer, novelist, and columnist for The Sunday Times, as well as a political commentator.

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Fiammetta Rocco

Fiammetta Rocco is a journalist and author.

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Fiona Mozley

Fiona Mozley (born 1988)Vogue interview, 16 October 2017 is an English novelist and medievalist.

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Fiona Sampson

Fiona Ruth Sampson, Born 1963 is a British poet, writer, editor, translator and academic who was the first woman editor of Poetry Review since Muriel Spark.

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Fleur Adcock

Fleur Adcock (born 10 February 1934) is a New Zealand poet and editor, of English and Northern Irish ancestry, who has lived much of her life in England.

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Fountain pen

A fountain pen is a writing instrument that uses a metal nib to apply water-based ink, or special pigment ink—suitable for fountain pens—to paper.

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Frances Coady

Frances Coady is a veteran British publisher.

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Frances Ryan

Frances Ryan FRSL is a British journalist, author, and activist for people with disabilities.

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Frances Spalding

Frances Spalding (née Crabtree, born 16 July 1950) is a British art historian, writer and a former editor of The Burlington Magazine.

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Frances Wilson (writer)

Frances Wilson (born 1964) is an English author, academic, and critic.

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Francesca Martinez

Francesca Martinez (born 1978) is an English comedian, writer and actress.

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Francis Spufford

Francis Spufford FRSL (born 1964) is an English author and teacher of writing whose career has seen him shift gradually from non-fiction to fiction.

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Frank Cottrell-Boyce

Frank Cottrell-Boyce (born 23 September 1959)"COTTRELL-BOYCE, Frank", Who's Who 2010, A & C Black, 2010; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2009; online edn, Nov 2009.

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Fred D'Aguiar

Fred D'Aguiar (born 2 February 1960) is a British-Guyanese poet, novelist, and playwright of Portuguese descent.

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Frederic Raphael

Frederic Michael Raphael FRSL (born 14 August 1931) is an American-born British novelist, biographer, journalist and Oscar-winning screenwriter, known for writing the screenplays for ''Darling'', Far from the Madding Crowd, Two for the Road, and Stanley Kubrick's last film Eyes Wide Shut.

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French language

French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Gabriel Gbadamosi

Gabriel Gbadamosi (born 1961)Killam, G. Douglas, and Alicia L. Kerfoot,, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2008, p. 14.

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Gabriel Josipovici

Gabriel David Josipovici (born 8 October 1940) is a British novelist, short story writer, critic, literary theorist, and playwright.

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Gaby Wood

Gaby Wood, Hon.

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Gao Xingjian

Gao Xingjian (高行健 in Chinese; born January 4, 1940) is a Chinese émigré and later French naturalized novelist, playwright, critic, painter, photographer, film director, and translator who in 2000 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for an oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity." He is also a noted translator (particularly of Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco), screenwriter, stage director, and a celebrated painter.

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Gary Younge

Gary Andrew Younge, (born January 1969) is a British journalist, author, broadcaster and academic.

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Gavin Francis

Gavin Francis (born 1975) is a Scottish physician and a writer on travel and medical matters.

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Geoff Dyer

Geoff Dyer (born 1958) is an English author.

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Geoffrey Ashe

Geoffrey Thomas Leslie Ashe (29 March 1923 – 30 January 2022) was a British cultural historian and lecturer, known for his focus on King Arthur.

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George Agar-Ellis, 1st Baron Dover

George James Welbore Agar-Ellis, 1st Baron Dover PC FRS FSA (14 January 1797 – 10 July 1833) was a British politician and man of letters.

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George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist.

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George Eliot

Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.

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George Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle

George William Frederick Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle, (18 April 1802– 5 December 1864), styled Viscount Morpeth from 1825 to 1848, was a British statesman, orator, and writer.

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George IV

George IV (George Augustus Frederick; 12 August 1762 – 26 June 1830) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from 29 January 1820 until his death in 1830.

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George Szirtes

George Szirtes (born 29 November 1948) is a British poet and translator from the Hungarian language into English.

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Geraldine McCaughrean

Geraldine McCaughrean (born 6 June 1951) is a British children's novelist.

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Gerard Woodward

Gerard Woodward (born 4 December 1961 in Enfield, London) is a British novelist, poet and short story writer, best known for his trilogy of novels concerning the troubled Jones family, the second of which, I'll Go to Bed at Noon, was shortlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize.

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Germaine Greer

Germaine Greer (born 29 January 1939) is an Australian writer and public intellectual, regarded as one of the major voices of the second-wave feminism movement in the latter half of the 20th century.

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German language

German (Standard High German: Deutsch) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol.

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Giles St Aubyn Awards for Non-Fiction

The Royal Society of Literature Giles St Aubyn Awards for Non-Fiction are annual awards, granted by the Royal Society of Literature (RSL) to authors engaged in writing their first non-fiction book for a mainstream audience.

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Gillian Beer

Dame Gillian Patricia Kempster Beer, (née Thomas; born 27 January 1935) is a British literary critic and academic.

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Gillian Clarke

Gillian Clarke (born 8 June 1937) is a Welsh poet and playwright, who also edits, broadcasts, lectures and translates from Welsh into English.

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Gillian Slovo

Gillian Slovo (born 15 March 1952) is a South African-born writer who lives in the UK.

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Gillian Tindall

Gillian Tindall (born 4 May 1938) is a British writer and historian.

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Gita Mehta

Gita Mehta (née Patnaik; 12 December 1943 – 16 September 2023) was an Indian-American writer and documentary filmmaker.

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Glenn Patterson

Glenn Patterson FRSL (born 1961) is a writer from Belfast, Northern Ireland, best known as a novelist.

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Glyn Maxwell

Glyn Maxwell (born 1962) is a British poet, playwright, novelist, librettist, and lecturer.

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Grace Nichols

Grace Nichols FRSL (born 1950) is a Guyanese poet who moved to Britain in 1977, before which she worked as a teacher and journalist in Guyana.

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Graham Robb

Graham Macdonald Robb FRSL (born 2 June 1958, in Manchester) is a British author and critic specialising in French literature.

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Graham Swift

Graham Colin Swift FRSL (born 4 May 1949) is a British writer.

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Guy Gunaratne

Guy Gunaratne (born 1984) is a British journalist, filmmaker and novelist.

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Gwendoline Riley

Gwendoline Riley (born 19 February 1979) is an English writer.

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Gwyneth Lewis

Gwyneth Denver Davies, FLSW (born 1959), known professionally as Gwyneth Lewis, is a Welsh poet, who was the inaugural National Poet of Wales in 2005.

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Han Kang

Han Kang (born November 27, 1970) is a South Korean writer.

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Hanan al-Shaykh

Hanan al-Shaykh (حنان الشيخ; born 12 November 1945, Beirut) is a Lebanese author of contemporary literature.

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Hanif Kureishi

Hanif Kureishi (born 5 December 1954) is a British Pakistani playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker, and novelist.

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Hannah Lowe

Hannah Lowe (born 1976) is a British writer, known for her collection of poetry Chick (2013), her family memoir Long Time, No See (2015) and her research into the historicising of the HMT ''Empire Windrush'' and postwar Caribbean migration to Britain.

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Hardinge Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury

Hardinge Stanley Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury, PC (3 September 1823 – 11 December 1921) was a British barrister and Conservative politician.

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Hari Kunzru

Hari Mohan Nath Kunzru (born 1969) is a British novelist and journalist.

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Hassan Abdulrazzak

Hassan Abdulrazzak (Arabic: حسن عبد الرزاق) is an Iraqi playwright and writer.

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Hebrew language

Hebrew (ʿÎbrit) is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family.

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Helen Castor

Helen Ruth Castor (born 4 August 1968) is a British historian of the medieval and Tudor period and a BBC broadcaster.

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Helen Edmundson

Helen Edmundson (born 1964) is a British playwright, screenwriter and producer.

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Helen Mort

Helen Mort (born 28 September 1985, Sheffield) is a British poet and novelist.

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Helen Oyeyemi

Helen Oyeyemi FRSL (born 10 December 1984) is a British novelist and writer of short stories.

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Helen Simpson (author)

Helen Simpson (born 1957) is an English novelist and short story writer.

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Helen Wilcox

Helen Elizabeth Wilcox (born 1955) is a British literary scholar who specializes in Early Modern English literature.

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Henry Hallam

Henry Hallam (9 July 1777 – 21 January 1859) was an English historian.

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Henry Hitchings

Henry Hitchings (born 11 December 1974) is an author, reviewer and critic, specializing in narrative non-fiction, with a particular emphasis on language and cultural history.

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Henry Simpson (Poets' Club founder)

Henry Simpson, (22 October 1868 - 20 November 1960) was a banker and the founder and president of the Poets' Club in London in 1908.

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Hermione Lee

Dame Hermione Lee, (born 29 February 1948) is a British biographer, literary critic and academic.

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Hilary Mantel

Dame Hilary Mary Mantel (born Thompson; 6 July 1952 – 22 September 2022) was a British writer whose work includes historical fiction, personal memoirs and short stories.

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Hilary Spurling

Susan Hilary Spurling CBE FRSL (Forrest; born 25 December 1940) is a British writer, known for her work as a journalist and biographer.

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Hisham Matar

Hisham Matar (هشاممطر) (born 1970) is an American born British-Libyan writer.

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Homi K. Bhabha

Homi Kharshedji Bhabha (born 1 November 1949) is an Indian scholar and critical theorist.

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Howard Brenton

Howard John Brenton FRSL (born 13 December 1942) is an English playwright and screenwriter, often ranked alongside contemporaries such as Edward Bond, Caryl Churchill, and David Hare.

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Howard Jacobson

Howard Eric Jacobson (born 25 August 1942) is a British novelist and journalist.

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Hugo Williams

Hugo Williams (born Hugh Anthony Mordaunt Vyner Williams on 20 February 1942) is an English poet, journalist and travel writer.

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Iain Sinclair

Iain Sinclair FRSL (born 11 June 1943) is a writer and filmmaker.

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Ian Duhig

Robert Ian Duhig (born 9 February 1954 London) is a British-Irish poet.

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Ian McDonald (Guyanese writer)

Ian McDonald (born 18 April 1933) is a Caribbean-born poet and writer who describes himself as "Antiguan by ancestry, Trinidadian by birth, Guyanese by adoption, and West Indian by conviction." His ancestry on his father's side is Antiguan and Kittitian, and Trinidadian on his mother's side.

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Ian McEwan

Ian Russell McEwan (born 21 June 1948) is a British novelist and screenwriter.

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Ian McMillan (poet)

Ian McMillan (born 21 January 1956) is an English poet, journalist, playwright, and broadcaster.

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Ian Rankin

Sir Ian James Rankin (born 28 April 1960) is a Scottish crime writer and philanthropist, best known for his Inspector Rebus novels.

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Ian Thomson (writer)

Ian Thomson (born 1961) is an English author, best known for his biography Primo Levi (2002), and reportage, The Dead Yard: Tales of Modern Jamaica (2009).

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Imtiaz Dharker

Imtiaz Dharker (born 31 January 1954) is a Pakistani-born British poet, artist, and video film maker.

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Inua Ellams

Inua Marc Mohammed Onore de Ellams II (born 23 October 1984) is a Nigerian-born British poet, playwright and performer.

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Irenosen Okojie

Irenosen Iseghohi Okojie FRSL is a Nigerian-born short story and novel writer working in London.

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Isabel Quigly

Elizabeth (Isabel) Madeleine Quigly (17 September 1926 – 14 September 2018) was a British writer, translator and film critic.

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J. K. Rowling

Joanne Rowling (born 31 July 1965), known by her pen name, is a British author and philanthropist.

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J. M. Coetzee

John Maxwell Coetzee FRSL OMG (born 9 February 1940) is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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J. R. R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philologist.

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Jack Scarisbrick

Professor John Joseph Scarisbrick MBE FRHistS (often shortened to J.J. Scarisbrick) is a British historian who taught at the University of Warwick.

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Jack Thorne

Jack Thorne FRSL (born 6 December 1978) is a British playwright, television writer, screenwriter, and producer.

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Jackie Kay

Jacqueline Margaret Kay, (born 9 November 1961), is a Scottish poet, playwright, and novelist, known for her works Other Lovers (1993), Trumpet (1998) and Red Dust Road (2011).

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Jacob Polley

Jacob Polley (born 1975) is a British poet and novelist.

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Jacob Ross

Jacob Ross FRSL (born 1956) is a Grenada-born poet, playwright, journalist, novelist and creative writing tutor, based in the UK since 1984.

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Jacqueline Crooks

Jacqueline Crooks is a British writer whose debut novel, Fire Rush, was shortlisted for the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction.

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Jacqueline Rose

Jacqueline Rose, FBA, FRSL (born 1949 in London) is a British academic who is Professor of Humanities at the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities.

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Jacqueline Wilson

Dame Jacqueline Wilson (Aitken; born 17 December 1945) is an English novelist known for her popular children's literature.

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Jamaica Kincaid

Jamaica Kincaid (born May 25, 1949) is an Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer.

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James Buchan

James Buchan (born 11 June 1954) is a Scottish novelist and historian.

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James Currey

James Currey is an academic publisher specialising in African Studies that since 2008 has been an imprint of Boydell & Brewer.

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James Fenton

James Martin Fenton (born 25 April 1949) is an English poet, journalist and literary critic.

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James Graham (playwright)

James Graham is a British playwright and screenwriter.

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James Hamilton-Paterson

James Hamilton-Paterson (born 6 November 1941) is a poet and novelist.

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James Lasdun

James Lasdun (born 8 June 1958) is an English novelist and poet.

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James Meek (author)

James Meek (born 1962) is a British novelist and journalist, author of The People's Act of Love.

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James Wood (critic)

James Douglas Graham Wood (born 1 November 1965) is an English literary critic, essayist and novelist.

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Jamie McKendrick

Jamie McKendrick (born 27 October 1955) is a British poet and translator.

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Jamila Gavin

Jamila Gavin (born 9 August 1941) is a British writer who is known mainly for children's books, including several with Indian contexts.

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Jan Carson

Jan Carson FRSL is a writer from Northern Ireland.

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Jane Draycott

Jane Draycott FRSL is a British poet and poetic translator.

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Jane Dunn

Jane Dunn is a British author.

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Jane Gardam

Jane Mary Gardam (born 11 July 1928) is an English writer of children's and adult fiction.

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Jane Ridley

The Honourable Jane Ridley FRSL (born 15 May 1953) is an English historian, biographer, author and broadcaster, and Professor of Modern History at the University of Buckingham.

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Jane Rogers (novelist)

Jane Rogers (born 21 July 1952) is a British novelist, editor, scriptwriter, lecturer, and teacher.

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Janice Galloway

Janice Galloway FRSL (born 1955 in Saltcoats, Scotland) is a Scottish writer of novels, short stories, prose-poetry, non-fiction and libretti.

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Japanese language

is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people.

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Javier Marías

Javier Marías Franco (20 September 1951 – 11 September 2022) was a Spanish author, translator, and columnist.

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Jay Bernard (writer)

Jay Bernard (born 1988), FRSL, is a British writer, artist, film programmer, and activist from London, UK.

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Jean Rhys

Jean Rhys, (born Ella Gwendoline Rees Williams; 24 August 1890 – 14 May 1979) was a British novelist who was born and grew up in the Caribbean island of Dominica.

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Jean Sprackland

Jean Sprackland (born 1962) is an English poet and writer, the author of five collections of poetry and two books of essays about place and nature.

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Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson (born 27 August 1959) is an English author.

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Jeffrey Meyers

Jeffrey Meyers (born 1 April 1939 in New York City) is an American biographer and literary, art, and film critic.

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Jen Hadfield

Jen Hadfield (born 1978) is a British poet and visual artist.

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Jenn Ashworth

Jenn Ashworth is an English writer born in 1982 in Preston, Lancashire.

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Jenni Fagan

Dr Jenni Fagan FRSL (born 1977) is a Scottish novelist and poet.

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Jennifer Johnston (novelist)

Jennifer Johnston (born 12 January 1930) is an Irish novelist.

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Jenny Uglow

Jennifer Sheila Uglow ((accessed 5 February 2008). (accessed 19 August 2022). born 1947) is an English biographer, historian, critic and publisher.

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Jeremy Hooker

Jeremy Hooker FRSL FLSW (born 1941 in Warsash, Hampshire) is an English poet, critic, teacher, and broadcaster.

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Jeremy Treglown

Jeremy Treglown (born 24 May 1946) is a biographer, cultural historian, critic, and Emeritus Professor at the University of Warwick.

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Jerwood Award

The Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Awards for Non-Fiction were financial awards made to assist new writers of non-fiction to carry out new research, and/or to devote more time to writing.

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Jez Butterworth

Jeremy "Jez" Butterworth is an English playwright, screenwriter, and film director.

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Jill Dawson

Jill Dawson (born 8 April 1962) is an English poet and novelist who grew up in Durham, England.

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Jim Crace

James Crace (born 1 March 1946) is an English novelist, playwright and short story writer.

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Jo Shapcott

Jo Shapcott FRSL (born 24 March 1953, London) is an English poet, editor and lecturer who has won the National Poetry Competition, the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Costa Book of the Year Award, a Forward Poetry Prize and the Cholmondeley Award.

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Joanna Kavenna

Joanna Kavenna (born 1974) is an English novelist, essayist and travel writer of Welsh extraction.

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Joanne Harris

Joanne Michèle Sylvie Harris (born 3 July 1964) is an English-French author, best known for her 1999 novel Chocolat, which was adapted into a film of the same name.

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Joanne Limburg

Joanne Limburg (born 1970) is a British writer and poet based in Cambridge.

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Joelle Taylor

Joelle Taylor RSL (born 1967) is a poet, playwright and author.

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John Agard

John Agard FRSL (born 21 June 1949) is a Guyanese playwright, poet and children's writer, now living in Britain.

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John Banville

William John Banville (born 8 December 1945) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, adapter of dramas and screenwriter.

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John Burnside

John Burnside FRSL FRSE (19 March 1955 – 29 May 2024) was a Scottish writer.

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John Carey (critic)

John Carey, (born 5 April 1934) is a British literary critic, and post-retirement (2002) emeritus Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford.

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John Cornwell (writer)

John Cornwell FRSL (born 21 May 1940) is a British journalist, author, and academic.

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John Fuller (poet)

John Fuller FRSL (born 1 January 1937) is an English poet and author, and Fellow Emeritus at Magdalen College, Oxford.

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John Gribbin

John R. Gribbin (born 19 March 1946) is a British science writer, an astrophysicist, and a visiting fellow in astronomy at the University of Sussex.

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John Haffenden

John Haffenden (born 19 August 1945) is emeritus professor of English literature at the University of Sheffield.

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John Hemming (explorer)

John Henry Hemming (born January 5, 1935) is a historian, explorer, and expert on the Incas and indigenous peoples of the Amazon basin.

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John Lanchester

John Henry Lanchester (born 25 February 1962) is a British journalist and novelist.

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John Spurling (businessman)

Sir John Damian Spurling, KCVO, OBE (born 1939) is a businessman.

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John Sutherland (author)

John Andrew Sutherland (born 9 October 1938) is a British academic, newspaper columnist and author.

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Jonathan Bate

Sir Andrew Jonathan Bate, CBE, FBA, FRSL (born 26 June 1958), is a British academic, biographer, critic, broadcaster, scholar, and occasional novelist, playwright and poet.

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Jonathan Coe

Jonathan Coe (born 19 August 1961) is an English novelist and writer.

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Jonathan Keates

Jonathan B. Keates FRSL (born 1946) is an English writer, biographer, novelist and former chairman of the Venice in Peril Fund.

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Jonathan Meades

Jonathan Turner Meades (born 21 January 1947) is an English writer and film-maker, primarily on the subjects of place, culture, architecture and food.

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Joseph Coelho

Joseph Aaron Coelho is a British poet and children's book author who was Children's Laureate from 2022-2024.

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Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Juan Gabriel Vásquez (born 1973) is a Colombian writer, journalist and translator.

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Julia Abel Smith

Julia Mary Seton Abel Smith is a British historian and historical preservationist.

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Julia Blackburn

Julia Blackburn (born 1948) is a British author of both fiction and non-fiction.

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Julian Gloag

Julian Gloag (2 July 1930 – 12 September 2023) was an English novelist and screenwriter.

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Julian Mitchell

Charles Julian Humphrey Mitchell, FRSL (born 1 May 1935) is an English playwright, screenwriter and occasional novelist.

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Juliet Barker

Juliet R. V. Barker (born 1958) is an English historian, specialising in the Middle Ages and literary biography.

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Justin Marozzi

Justin Marozzi (born 1970) is an English journalist, historian and travel writer.

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Kadija Sesay

Kadija George, Hon.

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Kae Tempest

Kae Tempest (formerly Kate Tempest) is an English spoken word performer, poet, recording artist, novelist and playwright.

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Kaite O'Reilly

Kaite O'Reilly FRSL is UK-based playwright, author and dramaturge of Irish descent.

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Kamila Shamsie

Kamila Shamsie FRSL (born 13 August 1973) is a Pakistani and British writer and novelist who is best known for her award-winning novel Home Fire (2017).

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Karen Armstrong

Karen Armstrong (born 14 November 1944) is a British author and commentator of Irish Catholic descent known for her books on comparative religion.

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Karen McCarthy Woolf

Karen McCarthy Woolf (born 1966) is a poet of English and Jamaican parentage.

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Kate Atkinson (writer)

Kate Atkinson (born 20 December 1951) is an English writer of novels, plays and short stories.

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Kate Clanchy

Kate Clanchy MBE (born 1965) is a British poet, freelance writer and teacher.

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Kate Mosse

Katherine Louise Mosse (born 1961) is a British novelist, non-fiction and short story writer and broadcaster.

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Kate Pullinger

Kate Pullinger is a Canadian novelist and author of digital fiction, and a professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, England.

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Kate Summerscale

Kate Summerscale (born 2 September 1965) is an English writer and journalist.

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Katherine Rundell

Katherine Rundell (born 10 July 1987) is an English author and academic.

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Kathleen Jamie

Kathleen Jamie FRSL (born 13 May 1962) is a Scottish poet and essayist.

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Kathryn Hughes

Kathryn Hughes (born 1959) is a British academic, journalist and biographer.

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Kayo Chingonyi

Kayo Chingonyi FRSL (born 1987) is a Zambian-British poet and editor who is the author of two poetry collections, Kumukanda and A Blood Condition. He has also published two pamphlets, Some Bright Elegance (Salt, 2012) and The Colour of James Brown’s Scream (Akashic, 2016). He is a writer and presenter for the music and culture podcast Decode.

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Kazuo Ishiguro

is a Japanese-born British novelist, screenwriter, musician, and short-story writer.

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Kei Miller

Kei Miller (born 24 October 1978) is a Jamaican poet, fiction writer, essayist and blogger.

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Keith Alldritt

Keith Alldritt is a contemporary British novelist, biographer and critic.

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Kerry Hudson

Kerry Hudson (born 1980) is a British writer.

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Kevin Crossley-Holland

Kevin John William Crossley-Holland (born 7 February 1941) is an English translator, children's author and poet.

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Khadijah Ibrahiim

Khadijah Ibrahiim is a literary activist, theatre maker and writer from Leeds.

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Kikuyu language

Kikuyu or Gikuyu (Gĩkũyũ) (also known as Gĩgĩkũyũ) is a Bantu language spoken by the Gĩkũyũ (Agĩkũyũ) of Kenya.

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Kim Hyesoon

Kim Hyesoon is a South Korean poet.

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Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Kiran Millwood Hargrave FRSL (born 29 March 1990) is a British poet, playwright and novelist.

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Kirsty Gunn

Kirsty Gunn (born 1960, New Zealand) is a novelist and writer of short stories.

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Kit de Waal

Mandy Theresa O'Loughlin (born 26 July 1960), known professionally as Kit de Waal, is a British/Irish writer.

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Kit Fan

Kit Fan FRSL (范進傑; born 1979) is an author and poet from Hong Kong who now lives in York in the United Kingdom.

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Kit Wright

Kit Wright (born 17 June 1944) is an English writer who is the author of more than twenty-five books, for both adults and children, and the winner of awards including an Arts Council Writers' Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, the Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize and the Heinemann Award.

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Korean language

Korean (South Korean: 한국어, Hangugeo; North Korean: 조선말, Chosŏnmal) is the native language for about 81 million people, mostly of Korean descent.

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Kwame Anthony Appiah

Kwame Akroma-Ampim Kusi Anthony Appiah (born 8 May 1954) is a British-American philosopher and writer who has written about political philosophy, ethics, the philosophy of language and mind, and African intellectual history.

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Kwame Kwei-Armah

Kwame Kwei-Armah (born Ian Roberts; 24 March 1967 in Hillingdon, London) is a British actor, playwright, director and broadcaster.

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Lady

Lady is a term for a woman who behaves in a polite way.

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Laline Paull

Laline Paull FRSL is a British novelist.

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Laura Bates

Laura Carolyn Bates (born 27 August 1986) is an English feminist writer.

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Laurence Kelly (writer)

Laurence Kelly (born 11 April 1933) is an English writer.

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Lavinia Greenlaw

Lavinia Elaine Greenlaw (born 30 July 1962) is an English poet, novelist and non-fiction writer.

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Lawrence Sail

Lawrence Sail (born 29 October 1942) is a contemporary British poet and writer.

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Lawrence Scott

Lawrence Scott FRSL (born in Trinidad, 1943) is a novelist and short-story writer from Trinidad and Tobago, who divides his time between London and Port of Spain.

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Learned society

A learned society (also learned academy, scholarly society, or academic association) is an organization that exists to promote an academic discipline, profession, or a group of related disciplines such as the arts and sciences.

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Lee Langley

Lee Langley is a British writer born in Calcutta, India.

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Leila Aboulela

Leila Fuad Aboulela (Arabic:ليلى فؤاد ابوالعلا; born 1964) is a fiction writer, essayist, and playwright of Sudanese origin based in Aberdeen, Scotland.

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Lemn Sissay

Lemn Sissay FRSL (born 21 May 1967) is a British author and broadcaster.

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Lennie Goodings

Lennie Goodings (born 1953) is a Canadian-born publisher active in the United Kingdom.

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Leone Ross

Leone Ross FRSL (born 26 June 1969) is a British novelist, short story writer, editor, journalist and academic, who is of Jamaican and Scottish ancestry.

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Leontia Flynn

Leontia Flynn is a poet and writer from Northern Ireland.

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Lesley Glaister

Lesley Glaister (born 4 October 1956) is a British novelist, poet and playwright.

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Linda Colley

Dame Linda Jane Colley, (born 13 September 1949 in Chester, England) is an expert on British, imperial and global history from 1700.

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Linda France

Linda France is a British poet, writer and editor.

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Linda Grant

Linda Grant (born 15 February 1951) is an English novelist and journalist.

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Linton Kwesi Johnson

Linton Kwesi Johnson OD (born 24 August 1952), also known as LKJ, is a Jamaica-born, British-based dub poet and activist.

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Lisa Appignanesi

Lisa Appignanesi (born Elżbieta Borensztejn; 4 January 1946) is a Polish-born British-Canadian writer, novelist, and campaigner for free expression.

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Lisa McGee

Elizabeth "Lisa" McGee (born August 1980) is an Irish playwright and screenwriter.

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List of lifetime achievement awards

Lifetime achievement awards are awarded by various organizations, to recognize contributions over the whole of a career, rather than or in addition to single contributions.

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Literature

Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially novels, plays, and poems.

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Liz Jensen

Liz Jensen (born 1959) is an English novelist living in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Loki (rapper)

Darren McGarvey FRSL, who goes by the stage name Loki, is a Scottish rapper and social commentator.

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Lola Young, Baroness Young of Hornsey

Margaret Omolola Young, Baroness Young of Hornsey (born 1 June 1951) is a British actress, author, crossbench peer, and Chancellor of the University of Nottingham.

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Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was a British poet and peer.

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Lorna Goodison

Lorna Gaye Goodison CD (born 1 August 1947)Ring, Deborah A.,. 2009.

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Louis de Bernières

Louis de Bernières (born 8 December 1954) is an English novelist.

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Louisa Young

Louisa Young is a British novelist, songwriter, short-story writer, biographer and journalist, whose work has appeared in 32 languages.

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Louise Doughty

Louise Doughty is an English novelist and screenwriter.

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Lucy Caldwell

Lucy Caldwell (born 1981) is a Northern Irish playwright and novelist.

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Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Lucy Angela Hughes-Hallett (born 7 December 1951) is a British cultural historian, biographer and novelist.

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Lucy Kirkwood

Lucy Ann Kirkwood (born) is a British playwright and screenwriter.

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Lucy Prebble

Lucy Ashton Prebble (born 18 December 1980) is a British playwright and producer.

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Lyndall Gordon

Lyndall Gordon (born 4 November 1941) is a British-based biographical and former academic writer, known for her literary biographies.

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Lynne Truss

Lynne Truss (born 31 May 1955) is an English author, journalist, novelist, and radio broadcaster and dramatist.

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Maggie Fergusson

Magdalen Margaret Christian Fergusson is a British biographer and editor.

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Maggie Gee (novelist)

Maggie Mary Gee (born 2 November 1948) is an English novelist.

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Maggie O'Farrell

Maggie O'Farrell, RSL (born 27 May 1972), is a novelist from Northern Ireland.

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Mair Bosworth

Mair Bosworth is a British radio producer.

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Malika Booker

Malika Booker (born 1970) at Forward Arts Foundatione.

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Malorie Blackman

Malorie Blackman (born 8 February 1962) is a British writer who held the position of Children's Laureate from 2013 to 2015.

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Mandarin Chinese

Mandarin is a group of Chinese language dialects that are natively spoken across most of northern and southwestern China.

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Margaret Atwood

Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian novelist, poet, and literary critic.

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Margaret Busby

Margaret Yvonne Busby,, Hon.

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Margaret Drabble

Dame Margaret Drabble, Lady Holroyd, (born 5 June 1939) is an English biographer, novelist and short story writer.

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Margaret Jull Costa

Margaret Elisabeth Jull Costa OBE, OIH (born 2 May 1949) is a British translator of Portuguese- and Spanish-language fiction and poetry, including the works of Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, Eça de Queiroz, Fernando Pessoa, Paulo Coelho, Bernardo Atxaga, Carmen Martín Gaite, Javier Marías, and José Régio.

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Margaret MacMillan

Margaret Olwen MacMillan, (born December 23, 1943) is a Canadian historian and professor at the University of Oxford.

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Margreta de Grazia

Margreta de Grazia (born 1946), Emerita Professor of English and the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania, is a scholar of Early Modern studies.

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Maria Stepanova (poet)

Maria Mikhailovna Stepanova (Russian: Мари́я Миха́йловна Степа́нова; born June 9, 1972) is a Russian poet, novelist, and journalist.

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Marina Salandy-Brown

Marina Salandy-Brown FRSA, Hon.

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Marina Warner

Dame Marina Sarah Warner, (born 9 November 1946) is an English historian, mythographer, art critic, novelist and short story writer.

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Mark Lawson

Mark Gerard Lawson is an English journalist, broadcaster and author.

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Martin Bax

Martin Charles Owen Bax (13 August 1933 – 24 March 2024) was a British consultant paediatrician, who, in addition to his medical career, founded the Arts magazine Ambit in 1959.

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Martina Evans

Martina Evans (born 1961) is an Irish poet and novelist who lives in London.

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Mary Beard (classicist)

Dame Winifred Mary Beard, (born 1 January 1955) is an English classicist specialising in Ancient Rome.

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Mary Gaitskill

Mary Gaitskill (born November 11, 1954) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer.

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Mary-Kay Wilmers

Mary-Kay Wilmers, Hon.

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Maryse Condé

Maryse Condé (née Marise Liliane Appoline Boucolon; 11 February 1934 – 2 April 2024) was a French novelist, critic, and playwright from the French Overseas department and region of Guadeloupe.

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Matt Ridley

Matthew White Ridley, 5th Viscount Ridley, (born 7 February 1958), is a British science writer, journalist and businessman.

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Matthew Kneale

Matthew Kneale (born 24 November 1960) is a British writer.

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Maura Dooley

Maura Dooley (born 18 May 1957) is a British poet and writer.

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Maureen Duffy

Maureen Patricia Duffy (born 21 October 1933) is an English poet, playwright, novelist and non-fiction author.

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Maureen Freely

Maureen Deidre Freely FRSL (born July 1952) is an American novelist, professor, and translator.

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Max Egremont

John Max Henry Scawen Wyndham, 7th Baron Leconfield, 2nd Baron Egremont, FRSL, DL (born 21 April 1948), generally known as Max Egremont, is a British biographer and novelist.

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Max Hastings

Sir Max Hugh Macdonald Hastings (born 28 December 1945) is a British journalist and military historian, who has worked as a foreign correspondent for the BBC, editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph, and editor of the Evening Standard.

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Max Porter (writer)

Max Porter (born 1981) is an English writer, formerly a bookseller and editor, best known for his debut novel Grief is the Thing with Feathers.

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Maya Jaggi

Maya Jaggi is a British writer, literary critic, editor and cultural journalist.

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Meena Kandasamy

Ilavenil Meena Kandasamy (born 1984) is an Indian poet, fiction writer, translator and activist from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

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Meera Syal

Meera Syal FRSL (born Feroza Syal; 27 June 1961) is an English comedian, writer, playwright, singer, journalist and actress.

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Meg Rosoff

Meg Rosoff (born 16 October 1956) is an American writer based in London, United Kingdom.

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Melvin Burgess

Melvin Burgess (born 25 April 1954) is a British writer of children's fiction.

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Melvyn Bragg

Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg, (born 6 October 1939) is an English broadcaster, author and parliamentarian.

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Menna Elfyn

Menna Elfyn, FLSW (born 1952) is a Welsh poet, playwright, columnist, and editor who writes in Welsh.

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Michael Arditti

Michael Arditti is an English writer.

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Michael Asher (explorer)

Michael Asher (born 1953) is an English desert explorer, writer, historian, deep ecologist, and educator.

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Michael Codron

Sir Michael Victor Codron (born 8 June 1930) is a British theatre producer, known for his productions of the early work of Harold Pinter, Christopher Hampton, David Hare, Simon Gray and Tom Stoppard.

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Michael Frayn

Michael Frayn, FRSL (born 8 September 1933) is an English playwright and novelist.

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Michael Hofmann

Michael Hofmann (born 25 August 1957) is a German-born poet, translator, and critic.

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Michael Holroyd

Sir Michael de Courcy Fraser Holroyd (born 27 August 1935) is an English biographer.

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Michael Longley

Michael Longley, (born 27 July 1939, Belfast, Northern Ireland), is an Irish poet.

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Michael Morpurgo

Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo (né Bridge; 5 October 1943) is an English book author, poet, playwright, and librettist who is known best for children's novels such as War Horse (1982).

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Michael Ondaatje

Philip Michael Ondaatje (born 12 September 1943) is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer and essayist.

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Michael Palin

Sir Michael Edward Palin (born 5 May 1943) is an English actor, comedian, writer, and television presenter.

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Michael Rosen

Michael Wayne Rosen (born 7 May 1946) is a British children's author, poet, presenter, political columnist, broadcaster, activist, and academic, who is a professor of children's literature in the Department of Educational Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London.

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Michael Schmidt (poet)

Michael Schmidt OBE FRSL (born 2 March 1947) is a Mexican-British poet, author, scholar and publisher.

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Michael Symmons Roberts

Michael Symmons Roberts FRSL (born 1963 in Preston, Lancashire) is a British poet.

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Michael Wood (historian)

Michael David Wood, (born 23 July 1948) is an English historian and broadcaster.

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Michaela Coel

Michaela Ewuraba Boakye-Collinson (born 1 October 1987), known professionally as Michaela Coel, is a British actress, filmmaker and poet.

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Michèle Roberts

Michèle Brigitte Roberts FRSL (born 20 May 1949) is a British writer, novelist and poet.

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Mick Herron

Mick Herron is a British mystery and thriller novelist.

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Mike Leigh

Mike Leigh (born 20 February 1943) is an English writer-director with a career spanning film, theatre and television.

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Mike Phillips (writer)

Michael Angus Phillips (born 8 August 1941), is a British writer and broadcast journalist of Guyanese descent.

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Mimi Khalvati

Mimi Khalvati (born 28 April 1944) is an Iranian-born British poet.

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Miranda Carter

Miranda Carter (born 1965) is an English historian, writer and biographer, who also publishes fiction under the name MJ Carter.

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Miranda Seymour

Miranda Jane Seymour (born 8 August 1948) is an English literary critic, novelist and biographer of Robert Graves, Mary Shelley and Jean Rhys among others.

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Mohit Bakaya

Mohit Bakaya, Hon.

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Moira Buffini

Moira Buffini (born 29 May 1965) is an English dramatist, director, and actor.

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Mona Arshi

Mona Arshi is a British poet.

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Monica Ali

Monica Ali (মনিকা আলী; born 20 October 1967) is a British writer of Bangladeshi and English descent.

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Monique Roffey

Monique Pauline Roffey (born 1965) is a Trinidadian-born British writer and memoirist.

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Moniza Alvi

Moniza Alvi FRSL (born 2 February 1954) is a British-Pakistani writer and poet.

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Muriel Spark

Dame Muriel Sarah Spark (1 February 1918 – 13 April 2006).

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Musa Okwonga

Musa Okwonga (born 11 October 1979) is a British author, podcaster, and musician.

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Nadeem Aslam

Nadeem Aslam FRSL (born 11 July 1966 in Gujranwala, Pakistan) is a British Pakistani novelist.

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Nadifa Mohamed

Nadifa Mohamed (Nadiifa Maxamed, نظيفة محمد) (born 1981) is a Somali-British novelist.

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Neil Gaiman

Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman (born Neil Richard Gaiman on 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre, and screenplays.

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Nell Dunn

Nell Mary Dunn (born 9 June 1936) is an English playwright, screenwriter and author.

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Nell Leyshon

Nell Leyshon is a British novelist and award-winning dramatist.

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Nesrine Malik

Nesrine Malik is a Sudanese-born journalist and author of We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent (W&N, 2019).

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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (born James Ngugi; 5 January 1938) is a Kenyan author and academic, who has been described as "East Africa's leading novelist".

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Niall Griffiths

Niall Griffiths (born 1966) is an English author of novels and short stories, set predominantly in Wales.

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Nicholas Hytner

Sir Nicholas Robert Hytner (born 7 May 1956) is an English theatre director, film director, and film producer.

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Nicholas Rankin

Nicholas Rankin (born 1950) is an English writer and broadcaster.

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Nicholas Shakespeare

Nicholas William Richmond Shakespeare FRSL (born 3 March 1957) is a British novelist and biographer, described by the Wall Street Journal as "one of the best English novelists of our time".

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Nick Cave

Nicholas Edward Cave (born 22 September 1957) is an Australian musician, writer and actor.

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Nick Hornby

Nicholas Peter John Hornby (born 17 April 1957) is an English writer and lyricist.

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Nick Laird

Nicholas Laird (born 1975) is a Northern Irish novelist and poet.

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Nigel Williams (author)

Nigel Williams (born 20 January 1948) is an English novelist, screenwriter and playwright.

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Nii Parkes

Nii Ayikwei Parkes (born 1 April 1974), born in the United Kingdom to parents from Ghana, where he was raised, is a performance poet, writer, publisher and sociocultural commentator.

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Nikesh Shukla

Nikesh Shukla (born 8 July 1980) is a British author and screenwriter.

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Nikolai Tolstoy

Count Nikolai Dmitrievich Tolstoy-Miloslavsky (Граф Николай Дмитриевич Толстой-Милославский; born 23 June 1935), known as Nikolai Tolstoy, is a British monarchist and revisionist historian.

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Nina Raine

Nina Raine is an English theatre director and playwright, the only daughter of Craig Raine and Ann Pasternak Slater, and a grand niece of the Russian novelist Boris Pasternak.

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Noel Malcolm

Sir Noel Robert Malcolm, (born 26 December 1956) is an English political journalist, historian and academic who is a senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford.

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Norman Davies

Ivor Norman Richard Davies (born 8 June 1939) is a British and Polish historian, known for his publications on the history of Europe, Poland and the United Kingdom.

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Norman Manea

Norman Manea (born 19 July 1936) is a Romanian writer and author of short fiction, novels, and essays about the Holocaust, daily life in a communist state, and exile.

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Olga Tokarczuk

Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk (born 29 January 1962) is a Polish writer, activist, and public intellectual.

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Olivia Laing

Olivia Laing (born 14 April 1977) is a British writer, novelist and cultural critic.

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Ondaatje Prize

The Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize is an annual literary award given by the Royal Society of Literature.

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Orlando Figes

Orlando Guy Figes (born 20 November 1959) is a British historian and writer.

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Owen Sheers

Owen Sheers (born 20 September 1974) is a Welsh poet, author, playwright and television presenter.

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P. J. Kavanagh

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Pankaj Mishra

Pankaj Mishra (born 9 February 1969) is an Indian essayist, novelist, and socialist.

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Pascale Petit (poet)

Pascale Petit (born 20 December 1953), is a French-born British poet of French, Welsh and Indian heritage.

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Pat Barker

Patricia Mary W. Barker,, Hon FBA (Drake; born 8 May 1943) is a British writer and novelist.

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Patience Agbabi

Patience Agbabi FRSL (born 1965) is a British poet and performer who emphasizes the spoken word.

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Patrice Lawrence

Patrice Lawrence MBE, FRSL (born 1960s) is a British writer and journalist, who has published fiction both for adults and children.

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Patricia Cumper

Patricia Cumper, MBE, FRSA, FRSL (born 1954), also known as Pat Cumper, is a British playwright, producer, director, theatre administrator, critic and commentator.

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Patrick Colquhoun (lawyer)

Sir Patrick MacChombaich de Colquhoun (13 April 1815 – 18 May 1891) was a British diplomat, legal writer and sculler who influenced early Cambridge rowing.

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Patrick Gale

Patrick Evelyn Hugh Sadler Gale (born 31 January 1962) is a British novelist.

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Patrick Marber

Patrick Albert Crispin Marber (born 19 September 1964) is an English comedian, playwright, director, actor, and screenwriter.

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Patrick Marnham

Patrick Marnham is an English writer, journalist and biographer.

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Patrick McGrath (novelist)

Patrick McGrath (born 7 February 1950) is a British novelist, whose work has been categorised as gothic fiction.

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Patrick McGuinness

Patrick McGuinness FRSL FLSW (born 1968) is a British academic, critic, novelist, and poet.

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Patrick Ness

Patrick Ness FRSL (born 17 October 1971) is an American-British author, journalist, lecturer, and screenwriter.

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Paul Bailey (British writer)

Paul Bailey FRSL (born 16 February 1937) is a British novelist and critic, as well as a biographer of Cynthia Payne and Quentin Crisp.

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Paul Davies

Paul Charles William Davies (born 22 April 1946) is an English physicist, writer and broadcaster, a professor in Arizona State University and director of BEYOND: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science.

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Paul Farley

Paul Farley FRSL (born 1965) is a British poet, writer and broadcaster.

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Paul Gilroy

Paul Gilroy (born 16 February 1956) is an English sociologist and cultural studies scholar who is the founding Director of the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Race and Racism at University College London (UCL).

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Paul Levy (journalist)

Paul Levy (born 26 February 1941 in Lexington, Kentucky) is a US/British author and journalist.

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Paul Muldoon

Paul Muldoon is an Irish poet.

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Pauline Melville

Pauline Melville FRSL (born 1948) is an English-Guyanese writer and former actress of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry, who is currently based in London, England.

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Penelope Lively

Dame Penelope Margaret Lively (née Low; born 17 March 1933) is a British writer of fiction for both children and adults.

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Peter Ackroyd

Peter Ackroyd (born 5 October 1949) is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a specialist interest in the history and culture of London.

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Peter Carey (novelist)

Peter Philip Carey AO (born 7 May 1943) is an Australian novelist.

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Peter Conradi

Peter Conradi is a British author and journalist who is the Europe Editor of The Sunday Times of London.

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Peter Frankopan

Peter Frankopan (born 22 March 1971) is a British historian, writer, and hotelier.

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Peter Gill (playwright)

Peter Gill (born 7 September 1939) is a Welsh theatre director, playwright, and actor.

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Peter Green (historian)

Peter Morris Green (born 22 December 1924), Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series.

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Peter Hobbs (novelist)

Peter Hobbs (born 1973) is a British novelist.

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Peter J. Conradi

Peter J. Conradi (born 8 May 1945) is a British author and academic, best known for his studies of writer and philosopher, Iris Murdoch, who was a close friend.

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Peter Parker (author)

Peter Parker (born 2 June 1954) is a British biographer, historian, journalist and editor.

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Peter Pomerantsev

Peter Pomerantsev (born Pyotr Igorevich Pomerantsev, label; born 1977) is a Soviet-born British journalist, author and TV producer.

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Peter Stothard

Sir Peter Stothard (born 28 February 1951) is a British author, journalist and critic.

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Philip Hensher

Philip Michael Hensher FRSL (born 20 February 1965) is an English novelist, critic and journalist.

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Philip Mansel

Philip Robert Rhys Mansel (born 1951) is a British historian of courts and cities, and the author of a number of books about the history of France and the Ottoman Empire.

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Philip Marsden

Philip Marsden, also known as Philip Marsden-Smedley (born 11 May 1961), is an English travel writer and novelist.

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Philip Pullman

Sir Philip Nicholas Outram Pullman (born 19 October 1946) is an English writer.

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Philippe Sands

Philippe Joseph Sands, KC (born 17 October 1960) is a British and French writer and lawyer at 11 King's Bench Walk and Professor of Laws and Director of the Centre on International Courts and Tribunals at University College London.

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Piers Brendon

Piers Brendon (born 21 December 1940) is a British historian and writer, known for historical and biographical works.

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Piers Paul Read

Piers Paul Read FRSL (born 7 March 1941) is a British novelist, historian and biographer.

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Polish language

Polish (język polski,, polszczyzna or simply polski) is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic group within the Indo-European language family written in the Latin script.

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Polly Atkin

Polly Rowena Atkin (born 1980) is an English poet and non-fiction writer based in Grasmere, Cumbria.

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Polly Pattullo

Polly Pattullo Hon.

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Polly Stenham

Polly Stenham (born 16 July 1986) is an English playwright known for her play That Face, which she wrote when she was 19 years old.

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Posy Simmonds

Rosemary Elizabeth "Posy" Simmonds MBE, FRSL (born 9 August 1945) is a British newspaper cartoonist, and writer and illustrator of both children's books and graphic novels.

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Preti Taneja

Preti Taneja FRSL is a British writer, screenwriter and educator.

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Prince Edward, Duke of Kent

Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (Edward George Nicholas Paul Patrick; born 9 October 1935) is a member of the British royal family.

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Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany

Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (Leopold George Duncan Albert; 7 April 185328 March 1884) was the eighth child and youngest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

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Priyamvada Gopal

Priyamvada Gopal (born 1968) is an Indian-born academic, writer and public intellectual who is Professor of Postcolonial Studies at the University of Cambridge.

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Queen Camilla

Camilla (born Camilla Rosemary Shand, later Parker Bowles, 17 July 1947) is Queen of the United Kingdom and the 14 other Commonwealth realms as the wife of King Charles III.

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Quentin Blake

Sir Quentin Saxby Blake, (born 16 December 1932) is an English cartoonist, caricaturist, illustrator and children's writer.

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Quill

A quill is a writing tool made from a moulted flight feather (preferably a primary wing-feather) of a large bird.

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R. F. Foster (historian)

Robert Fitzroy 'Roy' Foster (born 16 January 1949), publishing as R. F. Foster, is an Irish historian and academic.

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Rab Butler

Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, (9 December 1902 – 8 March 1982), also known as R. A.

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Rachael Boast

Rachael Boast (born 1975) is a British poet.

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Rachel Cusk

Rachel Cusk (born 8 February 1967) is a British novelist and writer.

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Rachel Hewitt

Rachel Hewitt is a writer of creative non-fiction, and lecturer in creative writing at Newcastle University.

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Raja Shehadeh

Raja Shehadeh (Arabic: رجا شحادة, born 6 July 1951) is a Palestinian lawyer, human rights activist and writer.

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Raman Mundair

Raman Mundair (Punjabi: ਰਮਨ ਮੰਡੈਰ) is a British poet, writer, artist and playwright.

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Ray Monk

Ray Monk (born 15 February 1957) is a British biographer who is renowned for his biographies of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell, and J. Robert Oppenheimer.

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Raymond Antrobus

Raymond Antrobus is a British poet, educator and writer, who has been performing poetry since 2007.

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Rebecca Lenkiewicz

Rebecca Lenkiewicz (born 1968) is a British playwright, screenwriter and former actress.

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Rebecca Stott

Rebecca Stott (born 1964) is a British writer and broadcaster and, until her retirement from teaching in 2021, was Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.

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Redmond O'Hanlon

Redmond O'Hanlon FRGS FRSL is an English writer and scholar.

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Reni Eddo-Lodge

Reni Eddo-Lodge (born 25 September 1989) is a British journalist and author, whose writing primarily focuses on feminism and exposing structural racism.

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Richard Barber

Richard William Barber (born 30 October 1941) is a British historian who has published several books about medieval history and literature.

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Richard Cohen (fencer)

Richard A Cohen (born 9 May 1947) is a retired British fencer who competed at three Olympic Games and the author of four books, Making History, The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past, Chasing the Sun, the story of man's relationship to that star, How to Write Like Tolstoy, A Journey into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers, and By the Sword, a history of sword fighting.

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Richard Davenport-Hines

Richard Peter Treadwell Davenport-Hines (born 21 June 1953 in London) is a British historian and literary biographer, and a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

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Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins (born 26 March 1941) is a British evolutionary biologist, zoologist, and author.

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Richard Eyre

Sir Richard Charles Hastings Eyre (born 28 March 1943) is an English film, theatre, television and opera director.

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Richard Ford

Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944) is an American novelist and short story author, and writer of a series of novels featuring the character Frank Bascombe.

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Richard Fortey

Richard Alan Fortey (born 15 February 1946 in London) is a British palaeontologist, natural historian, writer and television presenter, who served as president of the Geological Society of London for its bicentennial year of 2007.

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Richard Harries, Baron Harries of Pentregarth

Richard Douglas Harries, Baron Harries of Pentregarth, FLSW (born 2 June 1936) is a retired bishop of the Church of England and former British Army officer.

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Richard Hollis

Richard Hollis Hon.

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Richard Holmes (biographer)

Richard Gordon Heath Holmes, OBE, FRSL, FBA (born 5 November 1945) is a British author and academic best known for his biographical studies of major figures of British and French Romanticism.

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Richard J. Evans

Sir Richard John Evans (born September 29, 1947) is a British historian of 19th- and 20th-century Europe with a focus on Germany.

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Richard Mabey

Richard Thomas Mabey (born 20 February 1941) is a writer and broadcaster, chiefly on the relations between nature and culture.

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Richard Murphy (architect)

Richard Murphy OBE (born 24 April 1955) is a British architect and businessman.

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Richard Sennett

Richard Sennett (born 1 January 1943) is the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and former University Professor of the Humanities at New York University.

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Robert Ardrey

Robert Ardrey (October 16, 1908 – January 14, 1980) was an American playwright, screenwriter and science writer perhaps best known for The Territorial Imperative (1966).

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Robert Crawford (Scottish poet)

Robert Crawford (born 1959) is a Scottish poet, scholar and critic.

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Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe

Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe, (12 January 185820 June 1945), known as The Honourable Robert Milnes from 1863 to 1885, The Lord Houghton from 1885 to 1895 and as The Earl of Crewe from 1895 to 1911, was a British Liberal politician, statesman and writer.

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Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst is a British author.

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Robert Fraser (writer)

Robert Fraser FRSL (born 10 May 1947) is a British author and biographer.

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Robert Harris (novelist)

Robert Dennis Harris (born 7 March 1957) is a British novelist and former journalist.

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Robert Icke

Robert Icke (born 29 November 1986) is an English writer and theatre director.

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Robert Irwin (writer)

Robert Graham Irwin (23 August 194628 June 2024) was a British scholar and novelist.

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Robert Macfarlane (writer)

Robert Macfarlane (born 15 August 1976) is a British writer and Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

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Robert Skidelsky

Robert Jacob Alexander Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky, (born 25 April 1939) is a British economic historian.

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Robert Wells (poet)

Robert Wells (born 1947) is a UK poet and fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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Robin Briggs

Robin Briggs, (born 26 May 1942) is an English historian who has spent his entire academic career at All Souls College, Oxford.

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Robin Lane Fox

Robin James Lane Fox, (born 5 October 1946) is an English classicist, ancient historian, and gardening writer known for his works on Alexander the Great.

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Robin Robertson

Robin Robertson (born in 1955) is a Scottish poet.

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Roddy Doyle

Roderick Doyle (born 8 May 1958) is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter.

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Roger McGough

Roger Joseph McGough (born 9 November 1937) is an English poet, performance poet, broadcaster, children's author and playwright.

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Roger Robinson (poet)

Roger Robinson is a British writer, musician and performer who lives between England and Trinidad.

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Roger Scruton

Sir Roger Vernon Scruton, (27 February 194412 January 2020) was an English philosopher, writer, and social critic who specialised in aesthetics and political philosophy, particularly in the furtherance of traditionalist conservative views.

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Rohinton Mistry

Rohinton Mistry (born 1952) is an Indian-born Canadian writer.

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Roland Huntford

Roland Huntford (Horwitch;Race To The Pole: Tragedy, Heroism, and Scott's Antarctic Quest, Ranulph Fiennes, Hyperion, 2004, p. 387 born 1927) is an author, principally of biographies of Polar explorers.

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Romesh Gunesekera

Romesh Gunesekera FRSL (born 1954) is a Sri Lankan-born British author, who was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for his novel Reef in 1994.

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Rory MacLean

Rory MacLean FRSL (born 5 November 1954) is a British-Canadian historian and travel writer who lives and works in Berlin and the United Kingdom.

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Rory Stewart

Roderick James Nugent Stewart (born 3 January 1973), known as Rory Stewart, is a British academic, broadcaster, writer and former diplomat and politician.

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Rosalind Belben

Rosalind Loveday Belben (born 1 February 1941) is an English novelist.

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Rose Tremain

Dame Rose Tremain (born 2 August 1943) is an English novelist, short story writer, and former Chancellor of the University of East Anglia.

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Rosemary Ashton

Rosemary Doreen Ashton, (née Thomson; born 11 April 1947) is a Scottish literary scholar.

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Rosemary Hill

Rosemary Hill (born 10 April 1957) is an English writer and historian.

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Rosie Garland

Rosie Garland FRSL (born 1960) is a British novelist, poet and singer with post-punk band The March Violets.

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Ross Raisin

Ross Raisin FRSL (born 1979) is a British novelist.

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Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan FRSL (born 2 June 1989) is a British and American writer.

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Rowan Williams

Rowan Douglas Williams, Baron Williams of Oystermouth, (born 14 June 1950) is a Welsh Anglican bishop, theologian and poet.

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Roy Hattersley

Roy Sydney George Hattersley, Baron Hattersley, (born 28 December 1932) is a British politician, author and journalist from Sheffield.

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Roy Jenkins

Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead, (11 November 1920 – 5 January 2003) was a British politician and writer who served as the sixth president of the European Commission from 1977 to 1981.

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Roy Strong

Sir Roy Colin Strong, (born 23 August 1935) is an English art historian, museum curator, writer, broadcaster and landscape designer.

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RSL Christopher Bland Prize

The RSL Christopher Bland Prize was inaugurated by the Royal Society of Literature to encourage the work of older writers.

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Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)The Times, (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12.

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Rupert Christiansen

Rupert Christiansen (born 1954) is an English writer, journalist and critic.

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Rupert Thomson

Rupert Thomson, FRSL (born November 5, 1955) is an English writer.

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Russell T Davies

Stephen Russell Davies (born 27 April 1963), better known as Russell T Davies, is a Welsh screenwriter and television producer.

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Russian language

Russian is an East Slavic language, spoken primarily in Russia.

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Ruth Borthwick

Ruth Borthwick, Hon. FRSL, is a British arts administrator, literature executive and educator, who for more than three decades has worked with writers in bookselling and publishing, and as an advocate for literature in the UK and internationally.

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Ruth Fainlight

Ruth Fainlight FRSL (born 2 May 1931) is an American-born poet, short story writer, translator and librettist based in the United Kingdom.

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Ruth Padel

Ruth Sophia Padel FRSL FZS (born 8 May 1946) is a British poet, novelist and non-fiction author, known for her poetic explorations of migration, both animal and human, and her involvement with classical music, wildlife conservation and Greece, ancient and modern.

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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (7 May 19273 April 2013) was a British and American novelist and screenwriter.

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Ruth Scurr

Dr Ruth Scurr FRSL, aka Lady Stothard, is a British writer, historian and literary critic.

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S. F. Said

S.

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Sabrina Mahfouz

Sabrina Mahfouz is a British-Egyptian poet, playwright, performer and writer from South London, England.

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Saidiya Hartman

Saidiya Hartman (born 1961) is an American academic and writer focusing on African-American studies.

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Salena Godden

Salena Godden is an English poet, author, activist, broadcaster, memoirist and essayist.

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Salman Rushdie

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British-American novelist.

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Samar Yazbek

Samar Yazbek (سمر يزبك, born 1970 in Jableh, Syria) is a Syrian writer and journalist.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 October 177225 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets with his friend William Wordsworth.

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Sandeep Parmar

Sandeep Parmar is a contemporary poet, who was born in Nottingham, England, and raised in Southern California.

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Sandra Agard

Sandra Agard Hon.

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Sara Wheeler

Sara Diane Wheeler (born 20 March 1961) is an English travel author and biographer, noted for her accounts of polar regions.

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Sarah Ardizzone

Sarah Ardizzone Hon. FRSL (née Adams) is a literary translator, working from French to English.

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Sarah Bakewell

Sarah Bakewell (born 1963) is a British author and professor.

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Sarah Dunant

Sarah Dunant (born 8 August 1950) is a British novelist, journalist, broadcaster, and critic.

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Sarah Hall (writer)

Sarah Hall (born 1974) is an English novelist and short story writer.

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Sarah Howe

Sarah Howe (born 1983) is a Chinese-British poet, editor and researcher in English literature.

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Sarah Ladipo Manyika

Sarah Ladipo Manyika FRSL is a British-Nigerian writer of novels, short stories and essays and an active member of the literary community, particularly supporting and amplifying young writers and female voices.

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Sarah Moss

Sarah Moss (born 1975) is an English writer and academic.

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Sarah Perry

Sarah Grace Perry (born 28 November 1979) is an English author.

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Sarah Waters

Sarah Ann Waters (born 21 July 1966) is a Welsh novelist.

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Sasha Dugdale

Sasha Dugdale FRSL is a British poet, playwright, editor and translator.

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Sathnam Sanghera

Sathnam Sanghera FRSL (born 1976) is an Indian-British journalist and best-selling author.

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Scholastique Mukasonga

Scholastique Mukasonga (born 1956) is a French-Rwandan author born in the former Gikongoro province of Rwanda.

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Sean O'Brien (writer)

Sean O'Brien FRSL (born 19 December 1952) is a British poet, critic and playwright.

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Seán Hewitt

Seán Hewitt FRSL (born 1990) is a poet, lecturer and literary critic.

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Sebastian Barry

Sebastian Barry is an Irish novelist, playwright and poet.

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Sebastian Faulks

Sebastian Charles Faulks (born 20 April 1953) is a British novelist, journalist and broadcaster.

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Selina Hastings (writer)

Lady Selina Shirley Hastings (born 5 March 1945) is a British journalist, author and biographer.

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Shena Mackay

Shena Mackay FRSL (born 1944) is a Scottish novelist born in Edinburgh.

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Sigrid Rausing

Sigrid Maria Elisabet Rausing (born 29 January 1962) is a Swedish philanthropist, anthropologist and publisher.

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Simon Armitage

Simon Robert Armitage (born 26 May 1963) is an English poet, playwright, musician and novelist.

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Simon Brett

Simon Anthony Lee Brett OBE FRSL (born 28 October 1945 in Worcester Park, Surrey, England) is a British author of detective fiction, a playwright, and a producer-writer for television and radio.

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Simon Jenkins

Sir Simon David Jenkins FLSW (born 10 June 1943) is a British author, a newspaper columnist and editor.

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Simon Schama

Sir Simon Michael Schama (born 13 February 1945) is an English historian and television presenter.

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Simon Sebag Montefiore

Simon Jonathan Sebag Montefiore (born 27 June 1965) is a British historian, television presenter and author of history books and novels, including Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (2003), Jerusalem: The Biography (2011), The Romanovs 1613–1918 (2016), and The World: A Family History of Humanity (2022).

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Sinéad Morrissey

Sinéad Morrissey (born 24 April 1972 in Portadown, County Armagh) is a Northern Irish poet.

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Sir

Sir is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages.

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Somerset House

Somerset House is a large Renaissance complex situated on the south side of the Strand in central London, overlooking the River Thames, just east of Waterloo Bridge.

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Sophie Hannah

Sophie Hannah (born 1971) is a British poet and novelist.

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Spanish language

Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.

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Spencer Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton

Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton (2 January 1790 – 17 January 1851), known as Lord Compton from 1796 to 1812 and as Earl Compton from 1812 to 1828, was a British nobleman and patron of science and the arts.

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Stanley Stewart

Stanley Stewart FRSL is a British writer, who is the author of three travel books: Old Serpent Nile, Frontiers of Heaven, and In the Empire of Genghis Khan about journeys to the source of the Nile, through China to Xinjiang province, and across Mongolia by horse.

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Stanley Wells

Sir Stanley William Wells, (born 21 May 1930) is an English Shakespearean scholar, writer, professor and editor who has been honorary president of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, professor emeritus at Birmingham University, and author of many books about Shakespeare, including Shakespeare Sex and Love, and is general editor of the Oxford Shakespeare and New Penguin Shakespeare series.

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Stella Tillyard

Stella Tillyard FRSL (born 1957) is a British author and historian, educated at Oxford and Harvard Universities and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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Stephen Fry

Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English actor, broadcaster, comedian, director, narrator, and writer.

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Stephen Poliakoff

Stephen Poliakoff (born 1 December 1952) is a British playwright, director and screenwriter.

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Stephen Romer

Stephen Romer, FRSL (born 1957) is an English poet, academic and literary critic.

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Steve Jones (biologist)

John Stephen Jones DSc FLSW (born 24 March 1944) is a British geneticist and, from 1995 to 1999 as well as from 2008 to June 2010, was Head of the Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment at University College London.

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Stevie Davies

Stevie Davies is a Welsh novelist, essayist and short story writer.

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SuAndi

Susan Maria Andi, Hon.

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Sue Gee

Sue Gee (born 1947) is a British novelist.

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Sulaiman Addonia

Sulaiman S.M.Y. Addonia (Tigrinya: ሱላእማን ኣድዶንኣ)(born 1974, Omhajer, Eritrea) is an Eritrea-born British author who also works at a creative writing academy for refugees.

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Sunetra Gupta

Sunetra Gupta (born 15 March 1965) is an Indian-born British infectious disease epidemiologist and a professor of theoretical epidemiology at the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

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Suniti Namjoshi

Suniti Namjoshi (born 1941 in Mumbai, India) is a poet and a fabulist.

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Sunjeev Sahota

Sunjeev Sahota (born 1981) is a British novelist whose first novel, Ours are the Streets, was published in January 2011 and whose second novel, The Year of the Runaways, was shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize and was awarded a European Union Prize for Literature in 2017.

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Sunny Singh (writer)

Sunny Singh FRSL (born 20 May 1969) is an Indian-born academic and writer of fiction and creative non-fiction.

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Susan Bassnett

Susan Edna Bassnett, (born 21 October 1945) is a translation theorist and scholar of comparative literature.

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Susan Cooper

Susan Mary Cooper (born 23 May 1935) is an English author of children's books.

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Susannah Clapp

Susannah Clapp (born 1949) is a British writer, who has been the theatre critic of The Observer since 1997 and is a contributor to the BBC Radio 3 Nightwaves programme.

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Susheila Nasta

Susheila Nasta, MBE, Hon.

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Susie Boyt

Susie Boyt (born January 1969) is a British novelist.

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Susie Orbach

Susie Orbach (born 6 November 1946) is a British psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, writer and social critic.

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Sybille Bedford

Sybille Bedford, OBE (16 March 1911 – 17 February 2006) was a German-born English writer of non-fiction and semi-autobiographical fiction books.

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Syima Aslam

Syima Aslam Hon.

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Sylvia Whitman

Sylvia Whitman Hon.

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T. S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 18884 January 1965) was a poet, essayist and playwright.

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Tade Thompson

Tade Thompson FRSL is a British-born Nigerian psychiatrist and writer of Yoruba descent.

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Tahmima Anam

Tahmima Anam (তাহমিমা আনাম; born 8 October 1975) is a Bangladeshi-born British writer, novelist and columnist.

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Tanika Gupta

Tanika Gupta (born 1 December 1963) is a British playwright.

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Tash Aw

Tash Aw, whose full name is Aw Ta-Shi (born 4 October 1971) is a Malaysian writer living in London.

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Terence Blacker

Terence Blacker (born 5 February 1948, near Hadleigh, Suffolk) is an English songwriter, author and columnist.

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Tessa Hadley

Tessa Jane Hadley (born 28 February 1956; née Nichols) is a British author, who writes novels, short stories and nonfiction.

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Tessa McWatt

Tessa McWatt FRSL is a Guyanese-born Canadian writer.

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The Bookseller

The Bookseller is a British magazine reporting news on the publishing industry.

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The Right Reverend

The Right Reverend (abbreviated as The Rt Rev'd or The Rt Rev.) is an honorific style given to certain religious figures and members of a clergy.

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Theodore Zeldin

Theodore Zeldin (born 22 August 1933) is a scholar and current Associate Fellow of Green-Templeton College, Oxford.

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Thomas Burgess (bishop of Salisbury)

Thomas Burgess (18 November 175619 February 1837) was an English author, philosopher, Bishop of St Davids and Bishop of Salisbury, who was greatly influential in the development of the Church in Wales.

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Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet.

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Thomas Keneally

Thomas Michael Keneally, AO (born 7 October 1935) is an Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, and actor.

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Thomas Kilroy

Thomas F. Kilroy (23 September 1934 – 7 December 2023) was an Irish playwright and novelist.

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Tibor Fischer

Tibor Fischer (born 15 November 1959) is a British novelist and short-story writer.

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Tim Hilton

Tim Hilton (7 July 1941 - 6 January 2024) was a British journalist and author.

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Tim Pears

Tim Pears (born 15 November 1956) is an English novelist.

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Timberlake Wertenbaker

Timberlake Wertenbaker is a British-based playwright, screenplay writer, and translator who has written plays for the Royal Court, the Royal Shakespeare Company and others.

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Timothy Garton Ash

Timothy Garton Ash (born 12 July 1955) is a British historian, author and commentator.

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Tishani Doshi

Tishani Doshi FRSL (born 9 December 1975) is an Indian poet, journalist and dancer based in Chennai.

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Tobias Hill

Tobias Fleet Hill (30 March 1970 – 26 August 2023) was a British poet, essayist, writer of short stories and novelist.

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Toby Litt

Toby Litt (born 1968) is an English writer and academic based at the University of Southampton.

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Tom Holland (author)

Thomas Holland (born 5 January 1968) is an English author and popular historian who has published best-selling books on topics including classical and medieval history, and the origins of Islam.

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Tom Stoppard

Sir Tom Stoppard (born italic, 3 July 1937) is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter.

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Tom Sutcliffe (broadcaster)

Thomas Sutcliffe (born 12 August 1956 at Debrett's ''People of Today''. Retrieved 2011-01-23. in Yorkshire, England.

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Tony Birch

Tony Birch (born 1957) is an Aboriginal Australian author, academic and activist.

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Tony Bradman

Tony Bradman (born 22 January 1954) is an English writer of children's books and short speculative fiction best known for the Dilly the Dinosaur book series.

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Tony Connor

John Anthony Connor (born 1930) is an English poet and playwright.

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Tony Curtis (Welsh poet)

Tony Curtis FRSL (born 1946) is a Welsh poet who writes in English.

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Tony Harrison

Tony Harrison (born 30 April 1937) is an English poet, translator and playwright.

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Tracy Chevalier

Tracy Rose Chevalier (born 19 October 1962) is an American-British novelist.

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Tsitsi Dangarembga

Tsitsi Dangarembga (born 4 February 1959) is a Zimbabwean novelist, playwright and filmmaker.

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Ursula Owen

Ursula Margaret Owen Hon.

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V. S. Pritchett

Sir Victor Sawdon Pritchett (also known as VSP; 16 December 1900 – 20 March 1997) was a British writer and literary critic.

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Vahni Capildeo

Vahni Anthony Ezekiel Capildeo (born Surya Vahni Priya Capildeo, 1973) is a Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer, and a member of the extended Capildeo family that has produced notable Trinidadian politicians and writers (including V. S. Naipaul, a cousin of Capildeo's, and Neil Bissoondath).

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Val McDermid

Valarie McDermid, (born 4 June 1955) is a Scottish crime writer, best known for a series of novels featuring clinical psychologist Dr. Tony Hill, in a sub-genre known as Tartan Noir.

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Valeria Luiselli

Valeria Luiselli (born August 16, 1983) is a Mexican-American author.

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Verna Wilkins

Verna Allette Wilkins FRSL (born 1943) is a Grenada-born publisher and author, now resident in London.

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Vesna Goldsworthy

Vesna Goldsworthy FRSL (Bjelogrlic, Bjelogrlić, pronounced: Byelogerlitch), is a Serbian writer and poet.

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Victor Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton

Victor Alexander George Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton, (9 August 1876 – 25 October 1947), styled Viscount Knebworth from 1880 to 1891, was a British politician and colonial administrator.

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Victoria Glendinning

Victoria Glendinning (née Seebohm; born 23 April 1937) is a British biographer, critic, broadcaster and novelist.

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Victoria Hislop

Victoria Hislop (née Hamson; born 1959) is an English author.

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Vikram Seth

Vikram Seth (born 20 June 1952) is an Indian novelist and poet.

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Vinay Patel

Vinay Patel (born 1986) is a British-Indian screenwriter and playwright.

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Virginia Nicholson

Virginia Nicholson (née Bell; born 1955) is an English non-fiction author known for her works of women's history in the first half of the twentieth century.

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Vona Groarke

Vona Groarke is a leading Irish poet.

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W. B. Yeats

William Butler Yeats (13 June 186528 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature.

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W. N. Herbert

W.

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Warsan Shire

Warsan Shire (born 1 August 1988) is a British writer, poet, editor and teacher, who was born to Somali parents in Kenya.

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Warwick Gould

Warwick Leslie Gould, (born 7 April 1947) is a literary scholar born in Sydney.

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Wayback Machine

The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web founded by the Internet Archive, an American nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, California.

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Wendy Cope

Wendy Cope (born 21 July 1945) is a contemporary English poet.

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Will Eaves

Will Eaves (born 1967) is a British writer, poet and professor at the University of Warwick.

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William Boyd (writer)

William Andrew Murray Boyd (born 7 March 1952) is a Scottish novelist, short story writer and screenwriter.

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William Dalrymple

William Benedict Hamilton-Dalrymple (born 20 March 1965) is an India-based liberal Scottish historian and art historian, as well as an activist, curator, broadcaster and critic.

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William Fiennes (author)

William John Fiennes FRSL (born 7 August 1970) is an English author best known for his memoirs The Snow Geese (2002) and The Music Room (2009).

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William Hague

William Jefferson Hague, Baron Hague of Richmond, (born 26 March 1961) is a British politician and life peer who was Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1997 to 2001.

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William Nicholson (writer)

William Benedict Nicholson, OBE, FRSL (born 12 January 1948) is a British screenwriter, playwright, and novelist who has been nominated twice for an Oscar.

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William Sieghart

William Matthew Timothy Stephen Sieghart (born 1960) is a British entrepreneur, publisher and philanthropist and the founder of the Forward Prizes for Poetry.

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Winsome Pinnock

Winsome Pinnock FRSL (born 1961) is a British playwright of Jamaican heritage, who is "probably Britain's most well known black female playwright".

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Wole Soyinka

Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde "Wole" Soyinka (Akínwándé Olúwọlé Babátúndé "Wọlé" Ṣóyíinká,; born 13 July 1934) is a Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist in the English language.

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Xiaolu Guo

Xiaolu Guo FRSL (born 20 November 1973) is a Chinese-born British novelist, memoirist and film-maker, whose films and writing explore migration, alienation, memory, personal journeys, feminism, translation and transnational identities.

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Yaa Gyasi

Yaa Gyasi (born 1989) is a Ghanaian-American novelist.

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Yan Lianke

Yan Lianke (born August 24, 1958) is a Chinese writer of novels and short stories based in Beijing. His work is highly satirical, which has resulted in some of his most renowned works being banned in China. He has admitted to self-censorship while writing his stories in order to avoid censorship. His novels include Serve the People!, Lenin's Kisses, and Dream of Ding Village.

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Yann Martel

Yann Martel, (born June 25, 1963) is a Canadian author who wrote the Man Booker Prize–winning novel Life of Pi, an international bestseller published in more than 50 territories.

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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (née Damji; born 10 December 1949) is a British journalist and author.

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Yōko Ogawa

is a Japanese writer.

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Yiyun Li

Yiyun Li (born November 4, 1972) is a Chinese-born writer and professor in the United States.

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Yussef El Guindi

Yussef El Guindi (يوسف الجندى; born 1960) is an Egyptian-American playwright.

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Yvvette Edwards

Yvvette Edwards FRSL is a British novelist born in London, England, of Caribbean heritage.

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Zachary Leader

Zachary Leader (born 1946) is an Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Roehampton.

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Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith FRSL (born Sadie; 25 October 1975) is an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer.

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Zawe Ashton

Zawedde Emma Ashton (born 25 July 1984) is a British actress and playwright.

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2021 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2021.

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2022 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2022.

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2023 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2023.

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See also

1820 establishments in the United Kingdom

• Charlotte Square
• John Bull (magazine)
• Retrospective Review
• Royal Astronomical Society
• Royal Society of Literature

British literature

• 12 Books That Changed the World
• Amatory fiction
• American piracy of British literature
• Anglo-Latin literature
• Arthurian legend
• Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society
• Bloomsbury 21
• British literature
• British literature in languages other than English
• British philosophy
• British poetry
• British regional literature
• British women's literature of World War I
• C ya laterrrr
• Celtic folklore
• Characteristics of Harold Pinter's work
• Charles Lynn Batten
• Cornish literature
• De nugis curialium
• Gardners Books
• Harold Pinter and academia
• Harold Pinter and politics
• Isaac Bickerstaff
• List of real London pubs in literature
• Literature of England
• Literature of Northern Ireland
• Manx literature
• Metaphysical poets
• Muslim Literary Society
• One out of Many (story)
• Opus Majus
• Passion's Triumph over Reason
• Puritan casuistry
• Roxburghe Club
• Royal Society of Literature
• SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900
• Scottish literature
• Spiritual autobiography
• Texas Studies in Literature and Language
• The Chaucer Review
• The John Murray Archive
• United Kingdom Literacy Association
• Welsh literature
• Women Writers' Suffrage League

Organizations established in 1820

• Académie Nationale de Médecine
• Edinburgh Phrenological Society
• Medical Society of Virginia
• New York Eye and Ear Infirmary
• Royal Society of Literature
• The Musical Fund Society
• The Society for the Relief of the Homeless Poor

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Society_of_Literature

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