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18Jul/17
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Hanif Kureishi

18 July 2017Drama, Fiction, Non-fiction, Profiles, WritersHanif KureishiErica Lombard

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…

18Jul/17
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Christy Lefteri

18 July 2017Fiction, Profiles, WritersChristy LefteriErica Lombard

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
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Andrea Levy

18 July 2017Fiction, Profiles, WritersAndrea LevyErica Lombard

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
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Gautam Malkani

18 July 2017Fiction, Profiles, WritersGautam MalkaniErica Lombard

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
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Kei Miller

18 July 2017Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, Profiles, WritersKei MillerErica Lombard

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
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Nadifa Mohamed

17 July 2017Fiction, Profiles, WritersNadifa MohamedErica Lombard

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
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V. S. Naipaul

16 July 2017Fiction, Non-fiction, Profiles, WritersV. S. NaipaulErica Lombard

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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15Jul/17
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Courttia Newland

15 July 2017Drama, Fiction, Profiles, WritersCourttia NewlandErica Lombard

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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14Jul/17
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Ben Okri

14 July 2017Fiction, Poetry, Profiles, WritersBen OkriErica Lombard

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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13Jul/17
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Helen Oyeyemi

13 July 2017Fiction, Profiles, WritersHelen OyeyemiErica Lombard

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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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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