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22Jul/17
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Selma Dabbagh

22 July 2017Drama, Fiction, Profiles, WritersSelma Dabbaghadmin

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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22Jul/17
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Kwame Dawes

22 July 2017Drama, Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, Profiles, WritersKwame Dawesadmin

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…
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21Jul/17
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Inua Ellams

21 July 2017Drama, Performance, Poetry, Profiles, WritersInua Ellamsadmin

Inua Ellams Biography Writing Ellams’s lyricism and cultural references point to influences ranging from Shakespeare’s Hamlet to the intellectual playfulness of Terry Pratchett, with a strong undertow running throughout of Nigerian oralRead More…

21Jul/17
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Bernardine Evaristo

21 July 2017Drama, Fiction, Poetry, Profiles, WritersBernardine Evaristoadmin

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.
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18Jul/17
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Kwame Kwei-Armah

18 July 2017Drama, Profiles, WritersKwame Kwei-Armahadmin

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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15Jul/17
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Courttia Newland

15 July 2017Drama, Fiction, Profiles, WritersCourttia Newlandadmin

Courttia Newland is a novelist and playwright, born in 1973 in London to parents of West Indian heritage. Newland published his first novel, The Scholar, in 1997.
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13Jul/17
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Caryl Phillips

13 July 2017Drama, Fiction, Non-fiction, Profiles, WritersCaryl Phillipsadmin

Caryl Phillips is one of the major British writers of his generation. He is, however, known to be resistant to pigeonholing and to all the labels that have tried to circumscribe his art.
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11Jul/17
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Lemn Sissay

11 July 2017Drama, Non-fiction, Poetry, Profiles, WritersLemn Sissayadmin

Born in Wigan in 1967 to a mother who moved to Lancashire from Ethiopia the previous year, Sissay was placed directly into foster care and raised by a family…
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11Jul/17
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Benjamin Zephaniah

11 July 2017Drama, Fiction, Performance, Poetry, Profiles, WritersBenjamin Zephaniahadmin

The artist and activist Benjamin Zephaniah was born in Birmingham to Caribbean parents. His mother, a Jamaican Windrush immigrant, recalls Zephaniah and his twin sister’s date of birth…
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