Hanif Kureishi Biography Writing From the 1980s, Hanif Kureishi, the British-born, mixed-race Indian/Pakistani and English writer, playwright and filmmaker, has redefined British multiculturalism and what it means to be British. Published inRead More…
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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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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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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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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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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V. S. Naipaul was born in Chaguanas, Trinidad in 1932. The grandson of indentured labourers brought over from India to work on the Trinidad sugar plantations…
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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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Ben Okri (1958– ) is a Nigerian-born British novelist and poet. Ben Okri has published eight novels, including the Booker-winner The Famished Road (1991) and Starbook…
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Born in Nigeria in 1984, Helen Olajumoke Oyeyemi moved with her family at the age of four to London. At 18, she began work her first novel, The Icarus Girl (2005)…
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