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Richard Collins
Richard Collins

Richard Collins lives near Aberystwyth and has worked as a farm labourer, gardener and estate worker...

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B. R. Collins

B. R. Collins was born in 1981 and lives in Kent. She studied English at Kings College, Cambridge, t...

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Stewart Conn

Stewart Conn was born in Glasgow and grew up in Ayrshire. After studying at the University of Glasgo...

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David J. Constantine

Freelance writer, poet and translator, David Constantine was born in Salford, Lancashire, in 1944. H...

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Dominic Cooke

Dominic Cooke was born in 1966. He is currently Associate Director at the Royal Shakespeare Company,...

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Sophie Cooke

Sophie Cooke was born in 1976 and grew up in Stirlingshire. She studied Social Anthopology at the Un...

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Wendy Cope
Wendy Cope

Poet Wendy Cope was born in Erith, Kent in 1945 and read History at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She ...

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Julia Copus
Julia Copus

Julia Copus is a poet and radio dramatist. She was born in London in 1969, and studied Latin at Durh...

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Charlotte Cory

Charlotte Cory was born in 1956 in Bristol, England. She read English at the University of Bristol a...

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Professor Andrew Cowan

Andrew Cowan was born in Corby, Northamptonshire in 1960, and studied at the University of East Angl...

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Jim Crace

Novelist Jim Crace was born in Hertfordshire, England, in 1946 and was brought up in north London. H...

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Robert Crawford

Poet and critic Robert Crawford was born in Belshill, Lanarkshire, Scotland, in 1959, and grew up ne...

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Gillian Cross

Gillian Cross was born in London in 1945, and studied at Somerville College, Oxford and the Universi...

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Kevin Crossley-Holland

Kevin Crossley-Holland was born in 1941 in North Buckinghamshire and grew up in the Chilterns. He st...

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Professor Valentine Cunningham

Valentine Cunningham is Professor of English Language and Literature at Oxford University, and Tutor...

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Tony Curtis

Tony Curtis was born in Carmarthen in west Wales in 1946. He studied at Swansea University and Godda...

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Rachel Cusk

Rachel Cusk was born in Canada in 1967 and spent much of her childhood in Los Angeles before finishi...

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Fred D'Aguiar

Poet, novelist and playwright Fred D'Aguiar was born in London in 1960 to Guyanese parents. He lived...

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Selma Dabbagh

Selma Dabbagh is a writer of prose, plays and essays who lives in London. She is of British Palestin...

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David Dabydeen
David Dabydeen

Critic, writer and novelist David Dabydeen was born in 1955 in Berbice, Guyana, moving to England wi...

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