Writers Directory

Andrew Greig was born on 23 September 1951 in Bannockburn, Scotland and grew up in Anstruther, Fife....

Genres:

• Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Poetry

David Greig was born in Edinburgh in 1969 and brought up in Nigeria. He studied drama at Bristol Uni...

Genres:

• Children
• Drama

Kate Grenville was born in Sydney, Australia, and holds degrees from the University of Sydney, the U...

Genres:

• Fiction
• Non-Fiction

Niall Griffiths was born in Liverpool in 1966, studied English, and now lives and works in Aberystwy...

Genres:

• Fiction

Trevor Griffiths was born in 1935 in Manchester. He graduated from Manchester University with a BA i...

Genres:

• Children
• Drama
• Fiction
• Short Stories

Philip Gross was born in 1952 in North Cornwall. His father's history as a wartime refugee from Esto...

Genres:

• Drama
• Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Poetry

Romesh Gunesekera was born in 1954 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He grew up in Sri Lanka and the Philippine...

Genres:

• Drama
• Fiction

Kirsty Gunn was born in 1960 in New Zealand and educated at Queen Margaret College and Victoria Univ...

Genres:

• Fiction
• Short Stories

Xiaolu Guo is a novelist, essayist, screenwriter and film maker. She was born in south-eastern China...

Genres:

• Drama
• Fiction
• Non-Fiction

Sunetra Gupta was born in Calcutta, India, on 15 March 1965 and spent her childhood in Ethiopia and ...

Genres:

• Fiction
• Non-Fiction

Tanika Gupta was born in 1963 in Chiswick, and is a British playwright of Bengali origin. She read m...

Genres:

• Drama
• Poetry

Novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in 1948 on the island of Zanzibar off the coast of East Africa. ...

Genres:

• Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Short Stories

Professor Andrew (John) Gurr was born on 23 December 1936 in Leicester. He grew up in New Zealand an...

Genres:

• Fiction
• Libretto
• Non-Fiction
• Poetry
• Short Stories
• Translation

John Guy was born in Australia in 1949 and came to England in 1952, growing up in Watford and Lancas...

Genres:

• Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Short Stories

Poet and prose fiction writer Helon Habila studied Literature at the University of Jos and lectured ...

Genres:

• Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Poetry
• Short Stories

Mark Haddon was born in Northampton in 1962.He graduated from Oxford University in 1981, returning l...

Genres:

• Children
• Drama
• Fiction
• Graphic novels and Illustration
• Libretto
• Non-Fiction
• Poetry
• Translation

Jen Hadfield was born in Cheshire in 1978, and studied English Language and Literature at the Univer...

Genres:

• Fiction
• Poetry

Tessa Hadley lives in Cardiff and teaches Literature and Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, he...

Genres:

• Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Poetry

Ben Haggarty became a professional performance storyteller in 1981, having first worked as an 'image...

Genres:

• Fiction
• Storytelling

A Western novelist with Eastern roots, Zia Haider Rahman was born in the Bangladesh region of Sylhet...

Genres:

• Fiction