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26Jul/17
diran adebayo

Diran Adebayo

26 July 2017Fiction, Profiles, WritersDiran Adebayoadmin

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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26Jul/17
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Patience Agbabi

26 July 2017Performance, Poetry, Profiles, WritersPatience Agbabiadmin

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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25Jul/17
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Akala

25 July 2017Non-fiction, Performance, Profiles, WritersAkalaadmin

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…

25Jul/17
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Moniza Alvi

25 July 2017Poetry, Profiles, WritersMoniza Alviadmin

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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25Jul/17
raymond antrobus

Raymond Antrobus

25 July 2017Poetry, Profiles, WritersRaymond Antrobusadmin

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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25Jul/17
nadeem aslam

Nadeem Aslam

25 July 2017Fiction, Profiles, WritersNadeem Aslamadmin

Nadeem Aslam was born in Pakistan in 1966. He moved to Britain at the age of 14 when his communist father fled the country to escape President Zia-Ul-Haq’s military dictatorship.
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24Jul/17
malorie blackman

Malorie Blackman

24 July 2017Fiction, Profiles, WritersMalorie Blackmanadmin

Born in Clapham, London to Barbadian parents in 1962, Malorie Blackman OBE is the author of the best-selling and television-adapted series Noughts and Crosses.
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24Jul/17
vahni capildeo

Vahni Capildeo

24 July 2017Poetry, Profiles, WritersVahni Capildeoadmin

Born Surya Vahni Priya Capildeo in Port of Spain in 1973, Vahni Capildeo comes from a vaunted and controversial political and literary Trinidadian family. As an established poet…
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23Jul/17
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Brian Chikwava

23 July 2017Fiction, Profiles, WritersBrian Chikwavaadmin

Brian Chikwava (1972– ) is a Zimbabwean writer, journalist, and musician currently living and working in London. He is the author of the acclaimed novel Harare North (2009).
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23Jul/17
kayo chingonyi

Kayo Chingonyi

23 July 2017Poetry, Profiles, WritersKayo Chingonyiadmin

Soft spoken and charming in person, Kayo Chingonyi raises his voice and his political verve in performance. Born in Zambia in 1987, Chingonyi moved to the UK at age six…
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