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Lemn Sissay

Lemn Sissay is the author of five poetry collections: Tender Fingers in a Clenched Fist (1988); Rebe...

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Zoë Skoulding

Zoë Skoulding was born in 1967 and has lived in north Wales since 1991, having previously grown up m...

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Gillian Slovo

Novelist Gillian Slovo was born in 1952 in South Africa, the daughter of Joe Slovo, leader of the So...

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Dorothea Smartt

Dorothea Smartt was born and brought up in London and is of Barbadian heritage. She worked for many ...

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Ali Smith 2015 Sarah Wood website
Ali Smith

Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962 and lives in Cambridge.   Her books have won and been shortl...

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Zadie Smith Credit Dominique Nabokov 2012 website
Zadie Smith

Novelist Zadie Smith was born in North London in 1975 to an English father and a Jamaican mother. Sh...

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Ahdaf Soueif website
Ahdaf Soueif

Novelist Ahdaf Soueif was born in Cairo and educated in Egypt and England, where she studied for a P...

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Wole Soyinka

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Alan Spence

Alan Spence was born in Glasgow and is a poet, novelist, short story writer and playwright. He is Pr...

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Jean Sprackland

Jean Sprackland was born and brought up in Burton-on-Trent and lived for many years in Southport, Me...

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Hilary Spurling

Biographer Hilary Spurling was born in Stockport, England, in 1940. Educated at Somerville College,...

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Atima Srivastava

Novelist and short-story writer Atima Srivastava was born in Mumbai, India, in 1961 and has lived in...

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Lisa St Aubin de Teran

Lisa St Aubin de Terán was born in London in 1953. She left England at the age of sixteen and, with ...

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Edward St Aubyn

Edward St Aubyn was born in 1960 in London, and was educated at Westminster School and Oxford Univer...

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Professor George Steiner

Professor George Steiner was born in Paris on 23 April 1929. His family moved to the United States i...

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Shelagh Stephenson website
Shelagh Stephenson

Playwright Shelagh Stephenson was born in Northumberland and read drama at Manchester University. Sh...

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Greta Stoddart

Greta Stoddart was born in Henley-on-Thames in 1966, and grew up in Belgium and Oxford. Her poetry h...

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Dr Patsy Stoneman

Dr Patsy Stoneman is Reader in English at the University of Hull, where she has taught since 1966. H...

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Tom Stoppard

Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard was born Tomás Straüssler on 3 July 1937 in Zlín, Czechoslovakia. He gre...

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Zoe Strachan

Zoe Strachan was born in 1975, brought up in Kilmarnock, Scotland, and later moved to Glasgow. She w...

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