26Jul/17
Diran Adebayo
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
Patience Agbabi
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
Moniza Alvi
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
Nadeem Aslam
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
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
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
Brian Chikwava
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
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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22Jul/17
Teju Cole
Teju Cole – author, critic, and photographer – was born in 1975 in Kalamazoo, Michigan to Nigerian parents, and raised in Lagos. At the age of 17, he returned…
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22Jul/17
Selma Dabbagh
Selma Dabbagh (1970– ) is a British Palestinian writer currently based in London, but whose fiction is mainly – though not always – set in the contemporary Middle East.
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