16Jul/17
V. S. Naipaul
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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13Jul/17
Caryl Phillips
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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13Jul/17
Johny Pitts
Johny Pitts Biography Writing One ‘cold October morning I set out in search of the Afropeans’, Johny Pitts begins his travelogue Afropean. The hope that fired him was to see the ‘restRead More…
12Jul/17
Kamila Shamsie
Kamila Shamsie was born in 1973 in Pakistan. She grew up in Karachi, studied in the US, and now lives in London. Her first novel In the City by the Sea was published in 1998.
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11Jul/17
Nikesh Shukla
Nikesh Shukla Biography Writing Shukla is one of the UK’s leading voices on race, diversity, and identity. After reading Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me (2015) and Claudia Rankine’s Citizen (2014),Read More…
11Jul/17
Lemn Sissay
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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