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Aoife Mannix

Aoife Mannix is the author of four collections of poetry: The Trick of Foreign Words (2002); The Ele...

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Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel was born in Glossop, Derbyshire, England on 6 July 1952. She studied Law at the London...

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Sarfraz Manzoor

Sarfraz Manzoor is a writer, journalist and broadcaster. He was born near Faisalabad in 1971 and lef...

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Jack Mapanje

Malawian poet Jack Mapanje taught in Malawi Secondary Schools before he joined the Department of Eng...

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Patrick Marber

Writer (and occasional director and actor) Patrick Marber was born in London in 1964. He was educate...

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Adam Marek
Adam Marek

Adam Marek is an award-winning short story writer. He won the 2011 Arts Foundation Short Story Fello...

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Benjamin Markovits

Benjamin Markovits grew up in Texas, London and Berlin. He studied literature at Yale, and left an u...

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Adam Mars-Jones

Writer and critic Adam Mars-Jones was born in London in 1954. Educated at Westminster School and Tri...

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Yann Martel

Yann Martel was born in Salamanca, Spain, in 1963, of Canadian parents who were doing graduate studi...

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S. I. Martin

S. I. Martin was born in Bedford and has worked as a journalist for The Voice and Bulletin. He is th...

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Valerie Mason-John

Valerie Mason-John was born in 1962 in Cambridge, and used the stage name ‘Queenie’, and is now know...

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Allan Massie

Allan Massie was born on 19 October 1938 in Singapore, and was educated at Trinity College, Glenalmo...

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Hisham Matar

Hisham Matar was born in 1970 in New York City, where his father was working for the United Nations....

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Simon Mawer

Simon Mawer was born in 1948 and spent his childhood in England, Cyprus and Malta. He studied zoolog...

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Glyn Maxwell

Glyn Maxwell was born in 1962 in Welwyn Garden City, England. He read English at Oxford University a...

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Sarah May

Sarah May was born in Northumberland, England in 1972. She studied English at London University and ...

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Eimear McBride
Eimear McBride

Eimear McBride was born in Liverpool in 1976 to Irish parents. The family moved back to Ireland when...

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Patrick McCabe

Playwright and novelist Patrick McCabe was born in 1955 in Clones, County Monaghan, Ireland. He was ...

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Brian McCabe

Born in a small mining community near Edinburgh, Brian McCabe has been a freelance writer since 1980...

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Alexander McCall Smith

Alexander McCall Smith was born in Zimbabwe and educated both there and in Scotland. He worked as a ...

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