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22Jul/17
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Reni Eddo-Lodge

22 July 2017Non-fiction, Profiles, WritersReni Eddo-Lodgeadmin

Reni Eddo-Lodge (1989– ) is a journalist, podcaster, and author. She was born in London in 1989 to Nigerian parents and raised by her care-worker mother.
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21Jul/17
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Inua Ellams

21 July 2017Drama, Performance, Poetry, Profiles, WritersInua Ellamsadmin

Inua Ellams Biography Writing Ellams’s lyricism and cultural references point to influences ranging from Shakespeare’s Hamlet to the intellectual playfulness of Terry Pratchett, with a strong undertow running throughout of Nigerian oralRead More…

21Jul/17
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Diana Evans

21 July 2017Fiction, Profiles, WritersDiana Evansadmin

Diana Evans was born in 1972. Of mixed white British and Nigerian descent, she described herself in a BBC radio interview as ‘a Londoner’, one who has ‘lived in London all her life’.
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21Jul/17
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Bernardine Evaristo

21 July 2017Drama, Fiction, Poetry, Profiles, WritersBernardine Evaristoadmin

Born in London, Bernardine Evaristo (1959– ) studied at Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama and went on to co-found the Theatre of Black Women in 1982.
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21Jul/17
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Caleb Femi

21 July 2017Performance, Poetry, Profiles, WritersCaleb Femiadmin

Caleb Femi (1990– ) is a poet, filmmaker, and photographer. Born in Kano, Nigeria, he moved to London when he was seven years old, settling in Peckham…
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20Jul/17
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Aminatta Forna

20 July 2017Fiction, Non-fiction, Profiles, WritersAminatta Fornaadmin

Born in Scotland in 1964, the acclaimed novelist Aminatta Forna moved to Sierra Leone with her Scottish mother and Sierra Leonean father when she was six months old.
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19Jul/17
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Xiaolu Guo

19 July 2017Fiction, Non-fiction, Profiles, WritersXiaolu Guoadmin

Xiaolu Guo (1973– ) is a British-Chinese novelist, filmmaker and essayist. Guo’s first English language novel, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, was published in 2007.
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19Jul/17
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Abdulrazak Gurnah

19 July 2017Fiction, Profiles, WritersAbdulrazak Gurnahadmin

Born in Zanzibar, Tanzania in 1948, Abdulrazak Gurnah is a novelist and academic. He moved to the UK in 1968, in part to escape violence against Zanzibari Arabs…
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19Jul/17
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Sarah Howe

19 July 2017Poetry, Profiles, WritersSarah Howeadmin

The daughter of an English father and Chinese mother, Sarah Howe was born in 1983 in Hong Kong. At the age of seven she moved with her family moved to London.
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19Jul/17
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Kazuo Ishiguro

19 July 2017Fiction, Profiles, WritersKazuo Ishiguroadmin

Kazuo Ishiguro left Nagasaki at age five when his family moved to Surrey. Born in 1954, he first visited Japan again over three decades later, and currently lives in London.
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