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
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
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
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
19Jul/17
Abdulrazak Gurnah
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…
Profile and resources
19Jul/17
Sarah Howe
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.
Profile and resources
19Jul/17
Kazuo Ishiguro
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.
Profile and resources