Contemporary Writers in the UK

This unique, searchable database contains up-to-date profiles of some of the UK and Commonwealth's most important living writers - their biographies, bibliographies, critical reviews, prizes and photographs. You can search these profiles by author, genre, nationality, gender, publisher, book title, date of publication and prize name and date. Also included are writers from the Republic of Ireland that the British Council has worked with.

Try browsing the index of authors or using the search box on the authors page to search for writers.

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