22Jul/17
Kwame Dawes
Kwame Dawes is a poet, critic, editor, playwright, storyteller, broadcaster, actor and musician, born in Ghana and raised in Jamaica. The author of twenty books of poetry…
Profile and resources
22Jul/17
Kit de Waal
Kit de Waal Overview Born in Birmingham, the child of a Caribbean father and an Irish mother, the novelist and memoirist Kit de Waal made her name with her debut novel, MyRead More…
22Jul/17
Reni Eddo-Lodge
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.
Profile and resources
21Jul/17
Inua Ellams
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
Diana Evans
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’.
Profile and resources
21Jul/17
Bernardine Evaristo
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.
Profile and resources
21Jul/17
Caleb Femi
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…
Profile and resources
20Jul/17
Aminatta Forna
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.
Profile and resources
19Jul/17
Romesh Gunesekera
Romesh Gunesekera Biography Writing Most of Romesh Gunesekera’s works are set in his native Ceylon, or Sri Lanka from the 1960s. His fiction opens an expansive window onto the ethereal, yet politicallyRead More…
19Jul/17
Xiaolu Guo
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.
Profile and resources