19Jul/17
Mimi Khalvati
Mimi Khalvati was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1944 and moved to the Isle of Wight, England, when she was six years old. She grew up on the Isle of Wight…
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19Jul/17
Hari Kunzru
Born in London to a Kashmiri father and a British mother, Hari Kunzru (1969– ) is a British novelist and journalist. He began his writing career in journalism…
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18Jul/17
Kwame Kwei-Armah
Kwame Kwei-Armah was born in Hillingdon, London in 1967 to parents from Grenada. He grew up in Southall and observed fraught relationships between the communities…
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18Jul/17
Linton Kwesi Johnson
Linton Kwesi Johnson was born in 1952 in Chapelton, a small rural town in Jamaica. He moved to London at the age of 11 to join his mother who had immigrated two years earlier.
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18Jul/17
Christy Lefteri
Christy Lefteri was born in 1980 to refugees who escaped Cyprus following the partition of 1974. Raised in London, she released her first novel A Watermelon, a Fish and a Bible…
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18Jul/17
Andrea Levy
Andrea Levy was born in London in 1956, and describes herself as ‘a Londoner.’ Her parents were from Jamaica: her father came to England on the Empire Windrush in 1948.
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18Jul/17
Gautam Malkani
A journalist at The Financial Times by day, Gautam Malkani is the author of the highly-anticipated Londonstani. Born to a Ugandan mother of Indian descent […]
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18Jul/17
Kei Miller
Born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1978, Kei Miller FRSL is an essayist, poet, and fiction author best known for his collections of poems and essays.
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17Jul/17
Nadifa Mohamed
Nadifa Mohamed was born in Hargeisa, Somaliland, in 1981 and moved to London in 1986 – a move that was initially intended as temporary but became permanent…
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16Jul/17
Daljit Nagra
Born in London to Sikh Punjabi immigrants, the poet Daljit Nagra (1966– ) draws influence from both his British and Punjabi identities in his award-winning work.
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