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Alan Jenkins

Alan Jenkins was born in Surrey in 1955 and brought up in London. He studied at the University of Su...

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Catherine Johnson

Catherine Johnson is a novelist and screenwriter who lives in London. She was born in 1962 and studi...

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Jennifer Johnston

Born in Dublin in 1930, Jennifer Johnston's first published novel was The Captains and the Kings (19...

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Kathleen Jones

Kathleen Jones has published poetry, feature articles and short fiction in a variety of magazines in...

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Susanna Jones

Susanna Jones was born in 1967 and grew up in Yorkshire. She studied drama at London University wher...

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Cynan Jones

Cynan Jones was born in 1975 near Aberaeron, Wales where he now lives and works. His first novel was...

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Gareth P Jones

Gareth Phillips Jones was born 30th December, 1973 in the semi-mythical city of Birmingham. At the t...

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Owen Jones

Born in Sheffield, Owen spent his childhood in Stockport, Greater Manchester. Degree studies took hi...

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Emma Jones

The poet Emma Jones was born in Sydney and studied at the universities of Sydney and Cambridge. Her ...

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Anthony Joseph

Anthony Joseph is a Trinidad-born poet, musician and lecturer. In 2004, he was chosen by Decibel and...

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Anjali Joseph

Anjali Joseph was born in Bombay in 1978. Her family moved to England in 1985 and she later studied ...

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Alan Judd

Alan Judd (real name Alan Edwin Petty) was born in the UK in 1946. A graduate of Oxford University, ...

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Panos Karnezis

Panos Karnezis was born in Greece in 1967 and came to England in 1992. He studied engineering and wo...

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Kapka Kassabova

Kapka Kassabova was born and raised in Bulgaria in the 1970s and 1980s, and educated at the French C...

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Joanna Kavenna

Joanna Kavenna grew up in various parts of Britain, and has also lived in the USA, France, Germany, ...

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Jackie Kay

Jackie Kay was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1961 to a Scottish mother and a Nigerian father. She w...

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Billy Kay

Writer and broadcaster Billy Kay was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, in 1951 and read English Literature...

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Jonathan Keates

Jonathan Keates was born in Paris, France in 1946. Educated at Bryanston and Magdalen College, Oxfor...

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Charlotte Keatley

Charlotte Keatley was born in London on 5 January 1960. She studied drama at the University of Manch...

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Brigid Keenan

Brigid Keenan was born in India in 1939. Her career as a journalist began on the Daily Express, movi...

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