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20Jul/17
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Aminatta Forna

20 July 2017Fiction, Non-fiction, Profiles, WritersAminatta FornaErica Lombard

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.
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19Jul/17
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Romesh Gunesekera

19 July 2017Fiction, Non-fiction, Profiles, WritersRomesh GunesekeraErica Lombard

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
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Xiaolu Guo

19 July 2017Fiction, Non-fiction, Profiles, WritersXiaolu GuoErica Lombard

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.
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19Jul/17
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Abdulrazak Gurnah

19 July 2017Fiction, Profiles, WritersAbdulrazak GurnahErica Lombard

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…
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19Jul/17
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Sarah Howe

19 July 2017Poetry, Profiles, WritersSarah HoweErica Lombard

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.
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19Jul/17
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Kazuo Ishiguro

19 July 2017Fiction, Profiles, WritersKazuo IshiguroErica Lombard

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.
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19Jul/17
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Linton Kwesi Johnson

19 July 2017Performance, Poetry, Profiles, WritersLinton Kwesi JohnsonErica Lombard

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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19Jul/17
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Anthony Joseph

19 July 2017Fiction, Performance, Poetry, Profiles, WritersAnthony JosephErica Lombard

Anthony Joseph (1966– ) is an unmatched presence in contemporary literature, touted as ‘the leader of the black avant-garde in Britain’ and nominated…
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19Jul/17
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Jackie Kay

19 July 2017Drama, Fiction, Poetry, Profiles, WritersJackie KayErica Lombard

Jackie Kay Biography Writing Since her first attempt at writing a novel aged twelve – One Person, Two Names – Kay has written a myriad of works for adults and children: twoRead More…

19Jul/17
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Mimi Khalvati

19 July 2017Poetry, Profiles, WritersMimi KhalvatiErica Lombard

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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Postcolonial Writers Make Worlds (Principal Investigator: Professor Elleke Boehmer, Postdoctoral Research Fellow: Dr Erica Lombard) is an initiative of the University of Oxford Faculty of English Language and Literature, supported by the John Fell Oxford University Press (OUP) Research Fund.

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