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Taiye Selasi

Selasi was born in London, England, and raised in Brookline, Massachusetts, the elder of twin daught...

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Will Self

Will Self was born in London in 1961. He graduated from Oxford University and began writing fiction,...

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Sudeep Sen

Sudeep Sen studied at St Columba's School in New Delhi and read English Literature for an honours de...

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Vikram Seth

Born in 1952 in Calcutta, India, Vikram Seth was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Stanfor...

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Qaisra Shahraz

Qaisra Shahraz is a prize-winning and critically-acclaimed novelist, scriptwriter, peace and gender ...

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Nicholas Shakespeare

Novelist and biographer Nicholas Shakespeare was born in Worcester, England, in 1957. He spent his c...

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Kamila Shamsie

Kamila Shamsie, novelist, was born in 1973 in Pakistan.Her first novel, In the City by the Sea, was ...

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Jo Shapcott

Poet Jo Shapcott was born in London in 1953. She was an undergraduate at Trinity College, Dublin. Sh...

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William Shawcross

Writer and broadcaster William Shawcross was born on 28 May 1946 in Sussex, England, the son of Lord...

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Owen Sheers

Owen Sheers was born in Fiji in 1974 and brought up in Abergavenny, South Wales. He was educated at ...

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Jeremy Sheldon

Jeremy Sheldon was born in 1971 in London. He gained an MA in Creative Writing from the University o...

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Warsan Shire
Warsan Shire

Warsan Shire was born in Kenya in 1988 and is a London-based Somali-British writer. She is the autho...

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Henry Shukman

Henry Shukman is a poet, travel writer and fiction writer who lives in New Mexico. His novel, Sandst...

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Penelope Shuttle

Penelope Shuttle was born in 1947 in Middlesex, and has lived in Falmouth, Cornwall since 1970, a pl...

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Hannah Silva

Hannah Silva is an award winning writer and theatre maker. She was born in Dorset, grew up in Suffol...

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Posy Simmonds

Posy Simmonds was born in 1945 and grew up in Berkshire. She studied Graphic Design at the Central S...

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Helen Simpson

Helen Simpson was born in Bristol and grew up in London. She read English at Oxford University, wher...

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Iain Sinclair

Iain Sinclair was born in 1943 in Cardiff, and studied at Trinity College, Dublin, the Courtauld Ins...

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Simon Singh

Simon Singh is an author, journalist and television producer, specialising in science and mathematic...

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Indra Sinha

Indra Sinha was born in 1950, the son of an Indian naval officer and an English writer, Irene Elizab...

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