Writers Directory

Fflur Dafydd is a novelist, critic and musician from Carmarthen, West Wales. She was born in 1978 an...

Genres:

• Drama
• Fiction
• Poetry

William Dalrymple was born and brought up in Scotland. He wrote his first book, In Xanadu: A Quest (...

Genres:

• Fiction
• Non-Fiction

Achmat Dangor was born in Johannesburg in 1948, and after high school, lived in several small rural ...

Genres:

• Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Poetry

Toni Davidson was born in Ayr, Scotland in 1965. He is the editor of two anthologies of short storie...

Genres:

• Drama
• Fiction
• Poetry
• Short Stories

Peter Ho Davies was born in 1966 to Welsh and Chinese parents. He has degrees in Physics and English...

Genres:

• Fiction
• Short Stories

Stevie Davies, novelist and historian, was born in Wales; she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Li...

Genres:

• Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Poetry

Carys Davies is the author of a novel, West, and two collections of short stories, Some New Ambush a...

Genres:

• Fiction
• Short Stories

Lindsey Davis has been a historical novelist for nearly thirty years.  She began writing about the R...

Genres:

• Fiction
• Graphic novels and Illustration

Jill Dawson was born in Durham and grew up in Staffordshire, Essex and Yorkshire. She read American ...

Genres:

• Children
• Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Poetry
• Short Stories

Juno Dawson grew up in West Yorkshire and now lives in Brighton. She worked for some years as a teac...

Novelist Louis de Bernières was born in London in 1954. He joined the army at 18 but left after spen...

Genres:

• Drama
• Fiction
• Poetry
• Short Stories

Born in 1969, writer Alain de Botton moved to England with his family from Switzerland when he was e...

Genres:

• Fiction
• Non-Fiction

Critic, poet and novelist Seamus Deane was born in 1940 in Derry in Northern Ireland. He was educate...

Genres:

• Drama
• Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Poetry

John F. Deane was born on Achill Island in 1943. He is the author of several poetry collections and ...

Genres:

• Drama
• Fiction
• Poetry
• Short Stories
• Translation

Meaghan Delahunt was born in 1961 in Melbourne, Australia. Since 1992 she has lived in Edinburgh, Sc...

Genres:

• Fiction

Born in 1955, Joolz Denby is a writer, poet, spoken-word performer, illustrative and fine artist, cu...

Genres:

• Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Poetry

Novelist, short-story writer and children's author Anita Desai was born in 1937 in Mussoorie, India....

Genres:

• Children
• Drama
• Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Short Stories

Kiran Desai was born in India in 1971 and grew up there before moving to England, aged fourteen year...

Genres:

• Fiction
• Non-Fiction

Imtiaz Dharker was born in Pakistan, raised in Glasgow, and now lives between London and Mumbai.She ...

Genres:

• Children
• Drama
• Fiction
• Poetry

Farrukh Dhondy was born in Poona, India in 1944 in a Parsi family. He obtained a Bachelor of Science...

Genres:

• Drama
• Fiction
• Non-Fiction