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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) »
- 1820 establishments in the United Kingdom
- British literature
- 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.
See Royal Society of Literature and Abdulrazak Gurnah
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.
See Royal Society of Literature and Adam Foulds
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.
See Royal Society of Literature and Adam Sisman
Adam Thirlwell
Adam Thirlwell (born 22 August 1978) is a British novelist.
See Royal Society of Literature and Adam Thirlwell
Adam Zamoyski
Adam Zamoyski (born 11 January 1949) is a British historian and author descended from the historically important Polish nobility.
See Royal Society of Literature and Adam Zamoyski
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
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