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Joe Dunthorne 2011 credit Angus Muir
Joe Dunthorne

Joe Dunthorne was born and brought up in Swansea, and is a graduate of the University of East Anglia...

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Durcan Paul Credit Mark Condren web
Paul Durcan

Poet Paul Durcan was born in Dublin, Ireland, on 16 October 1944. He was educated at University Coll...

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Geoff Dyer by Matt Stuart
Geoff Dyer

Geoff Dyer was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, in 1958 and was educated at Corpus Christi Colle...

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Terry Eagleton

Professor Terry Eagleton, Chair within the Department of English and Creative Writing at Lancaster U...

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David Edgar

Playwright David Edgar was born in Birmingham on 26 February 1948. He was educated at Oundle School ...

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Zena Edwards

Zena Edwards is a poet and performer who uses song, movement and global influences as a jump-off for...

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Yvvette Edwards

Yvvette Edwards was born in Barnet and grew up in Hackney, London. She has worked for some time in h...

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Susan Elderkin

Susan Elderkin was born in 1968 and grew up in Leatherhead, Surrey. She studied English at Cambridge...

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Elfyn John Briggs web
Menna Elfyn

Menna Elfyn was born in 1951 near Swansea, Wales and is known first and foremost as a poet. She is a...

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Inua Ellams

Inua Ellams was born in Nigeria in 1984 and moved to the UK as a child. He is a poet, performer, pla...

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Lucy Ellmann

Novelist Lucy Ellmann was born on 18 October 1956 in Evanston, Illinois, the daughter of biographer ...

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Margaret Elphinstone

Margaret Elphinstone was born in 1948 in Kent, and educated at Queen's College, London and the Unive...

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Tan Twan Eng

Tan Twan Eng was born in Penang in 1972 and grew up in Malaysia. He worked as an intellectual proper...

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Lucy English

Lucy English was born in Sri Lanka and grew up in England. She studied English and American Literatu...

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Anne Enright

Anne Enright was born in Dublin in 1962, studied English and Philosophy at Trinity College, Dublin, ...

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Kodwo Eshun

Music journalist Kodwo Eshun is the author of More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Ficti...

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Bernardine Evaristo 2013 credit Hayley Madden web
Bernardine Evaristo

Bernardine Evaristo was born in London to an English mother and Nigerian father.The fourth of eight ...

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Michel Faber 8 c Eva Youren web
Michel Faber

Novelist and short-story writer Michel Faber was born in Holland. He moved with his family to Austra...

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Jenni Fagan 2013 cr Urszula Soltys
Jenni Fagan

Jenni Fagan’s critically acclaimed debut novel, The Panopticon, was published in 2012 and named one ...

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Ruth Fainlight

Ruth Fainlight was born in New York City in 1931. She was educated in the United States and England,...

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