In A God in Every Stone (2014) Pakistani novelist Kamila Shamsie weaves in elegant, captivating prose a story that takes the reader through time and across continents […]
From the outset Ben Okri’s work has engaged the question of how African writing can be British writing and world writing, and, also, how world writing is African writing. […]
As for much of Dabbagh’s writing, Out of It is a powerfully spatial text – the title raises issues of geography and place, of no longer being present in a specific location.
Leila Aboulela Biography Writing In Aboulela’s fiction, we witness how an engagement with colonial history can help to make sense of the present, particularly the often-fraught relationship between Islam and the West.Read More…
Known as Diran Adebayo, Oludiran Adebayo (1968– ) was born in north London in 1968 to Nigerian parents. He is the acclaimed author of Some Kind of Black (1996)…
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Poet Patience Agbabi FRSL was born ‘waxing lyrical’ in 1965 in London to Nigerian parents. She was fostered from an early age by white parents in North Wales.
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Akala Biography Writing Since the publication of Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire, Akala has become a prominent commentator on empire and race, both in Britain and globally. WrittenRead More…
Monica Ali Biography Writing Besides Brick Lane, Monica Ali’s major works include the novels Alentejo Blue (2006), In the Kitchen (2009), and Untold Story (2011). In each of these works, she turnsRead More…
Born in Lahore, Pakistan in 1954, Moniza Alvi’s parents moved to England while she was an infant. She grew up in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, before attending the…
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A Londoner born in a British-Jamaican home in 1986, Raymond Antrobus started his career as a teacher and studied for an MA in Spoken Word at Goldsmiths….
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