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Nikesh Shukla

Nikesh Shukla

Nikesh Shukla is the author of three novels. Most recently, he authored the critically acclaimed The One…
Gillian Slovo

Gillian Slovo

Gillian Slovo has published thirteen novels, a family memoir and has also written three verbatim…
Pascale Petit

Pascale Petit

Pascale Petit is of French, Welsh and Indian heritage. Her seventh poetry collection Mama Amazonica…
Justin Marozzi

Justin Marozzi

Justin Marozzi is a historian who has written a number of books about the Middle…
Edmund de Waal

Edmund de Waal

Edmund de Waal is a contemporary British ceramicist and author. He was known for both his…
Ian Thomson

Ian Thomson

Ian Thomson is an acclaimed biographer, reporter and literary critic. His biography, Primo Levi: A Life,…
Rory Stewart

Rory Stewart

Rory Stewart, OBE, FRSL FRSGS is a British politician, diplomat, and writer. After a brief period in the British army,…
Louisa Waugh

Louisa Waugh

Louisa Waughs first book, Hearing Birds Fly, won the inaugural RSL Ondaataje Prize in 2004….
Inua Ellams

Inua Ellams

Born in Nigeria in 1984, Inua Ellams is an internationally touring poet, playwright, performer, graphic…
Irenosen Okojie

Irenosen Okojie

Irenosen Okojie is a Nigerian British writer. Her debut novel Butterfly Fish won a Betty…
Nell Leyshon

Nell Leyshon

Nell Leyshon is a novelist and playwright. Her first novel, Black Dirt, was long-listed for…
Barney Norris

Barney Norris

Barney Norris founded the touring theatre company Up in Arms with the director Alice Hamilton….
Daisy Hay

Daisy Hay

Daisy Hay is the author of Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives…
David Morley

David Morley

David Morley, an ecologist and naturalist by background, is Professor of Writing at Warwick University….
Michèle Roberts

Michèle Roberts

Michèle Roberts is the author of twelve highly acclaimed novels, including The Looking Glass and Daughters of the House,…
Alexandra Harris

Alexandra Harris

Alexandra Harris is the author of Romantic Moderns, Weatherland, a short book on Virginia Woolf…
Rebecca Lenkiewicz

Rebecca Lenkiewicz

Rebecca Lenkiewicz  is a playwright and scriptwriter was elected as a Fellow of the Royal…
David Hare

David Hare

David Hare is a  playwright, screenwriter and theatre and film director. He has written over thirty stage plays which include Plenty (1978), Pravda…
Artemis Cooper

Artemis Cooper

Artemis Cooper has written several books, including wartime histories of Cairo and Paris (the latter…
Sathnam Sanghera

Sathnam Sanghera

Sathnam Sanghera graduated from Christ’s College, Cambridge with a first class degree in English Language…
Patience Agbabi

Patience Agbabi

Patience Agbabi is a poet known for her formal dexterity and live readings. Her fourth…
Daljit Nagra

Daljit Nagra

Daljit Nagra is from a Sikh background and was born and grew up in west…
Ian Rankin

Ian Rankin

Ian Rankin is the award-winning author of the Inspector Rebus novels, along with other fiction,…
Fiona Sampson

Fiona Sampson

Fiona Sampson has received various national and international awards for poetry. She’s published in thirty-seven…
Sarah Hall

Sarah Hall

Sarah Hall is an award winning novelist and short story writer. Her novels include, Haweswater (2003)…
Grace Nichols

Grace Nichols

Grace Nichols has written books for both adults and children and has received several awards…
Fleur Adcock

Fleur Adcock

Fleur Adcock was born in New Zealand, with which she retains fond links, but has…
China Miéville

China Miéville

China Miéville lives and works in London. He is three-time winner of the prestigious Arthur…
Claire Harman

Claire Harman

Claire Harman began her career in publishing, at Carcanet Press and the Manchester-based poetry magazine PN Review, where…
Eva Hoffman

Eva Hoffman

Eva Hoffman emigrated from Poland to Canada and the U. S. in her teens, and…
Adam Foulds

Adam Foulds

Adam Foulds’ first novel, The Truth About These Strange Times (2007) won the 2008 Sunday…
Bernardine Evaristo

Bernardine Evaristo

Bernardine Evaristo is the award-winning author of seven books of fiction and verse fiction, most…
Romesh Gunesekera

Romesh Gunesekera

Booker short-listed author of nine books. Most recent book of fiction is Noontide Toll published…
Maggie Gee

Maggie Gee

Maggie Gee has written 14 books and was the first woman to Chair the RSL’s…
Yann Martel

Yann Martel

Yann Martel  is a Spanish-born Canadian author best known for the Man Booker Prize-winning novel…
Margaret Jull Costa

Margaret Jull Costa

Margaret Jull Costa has been a literary translator for nearly thirty years and has translated…
Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel is the two-time winner of the Man Booker Prize for her best-selling novels,…
Jamila Gavin

Jamila Gavin

As is probably evident by my choice of books, I am a child of the…
Lisa Appignanesi

Lisa Appignanesi

Lisa Appignanesi is the new Chair of the RSL Council. She has been President of…
Tessa Hadley

Tessa Hadley

Tessa Hadley has written six novels and two collections of short stories. Her latest novel, The…
Jim Crace

Jim Crace

Here are four novels that rocked my understanding of the world: all were written by…
Sarah Waters

Sarah Waters

Sarah Waters has written six novels. Her latest is The Paying Guests.