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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15Jul/17
Courttia Newland
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
Ben Okri
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
Helen Oyeyemi
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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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…
13Jul/17
Yousif M. Qasmiyeh
Yousif M. Qasmiyeh Biography Writing Yousif M. Qasmiyeh has been vocal about his effort to write poetry that ‘sits precisely on the threshold’. In an interview with the Poetry Book Society, heRead More…
12Jul/17
Roger Robinson
Roger Robinson Biography Writing In 2001, Robinson moved from having his poetry printed in a number of influential anthologies – notably, The Fire People (ed. Lemn Sissay, 1998) and The Penguin BookRead 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
Warsan Shire
Warsan Shire is a poet born to Somali parents in Kenya in 1988. When she was only a year old her family migrated to England. She has been described as a ‘refugee poet’…
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