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New authors on site March 2008

New authors on the Contemporary Writers website March 2008: Leila Aboulela Frank Cottrell Boyce Daljit Nagra Redmond O’Hanlon Ifor Thomas Philip Wells more...

New authors on site January 2008

New authors and storytellers on Contemporary Writers for the month of January are: Lloyd Jones Christopher Logue Anne Enright Rachel Anderson more...

New authors on site for December 2007

New authors and storytellers on Contemporary Writers for the month of November and December are: Cat Weatherill Mohsin Hamid Ben Haggarty Lucy English Zo e Skoulding more...

New authors on site October 2007

The latest authors to be added to the Contemporary Writers database are: CN Adichie Trevor Griffiths Paul Henry Michael Rosen Alex Wheatle more...

New authors on site September 2007

The latest authors to be added to the Contemporary Writers database are: Rory MacLean Gwendoline Riley Aonghas MacNeacail Allen Fisher Penelope Shuttle more...

Literature Matters September 2007

The latest issue of the British Council’s Literature Matters newsletter is now available to read online here . This issue focuses on the 30th Cambridge Seminar on Contemporary Literature, which... more...

New authors on site August 2007

The latest authors to be added to the Contemporary Writers database are: Nicholas Blincoe Tim Bowler Gillian Cross Simon Gray more...

New authors on site June 2007

Eight new authors were added to the database in June 2007. Click on the following names to read their bibliographical and biographical details: Julie Bertagna ; Sujata Bhatt ; Alan... more...

New Writing 15 is published

New Writing 15 Edited by Bernardine Evaristo and Maggie Gee . Granta, 2007 £9.99 ISBN 978-1-86207-932-8 New Writing 15 is the British Council's annual anthology of the finest contemporary writing... more...

New authors on site May 2007

Click on the authors' names below to read their biographical and bibliographical details on the Contemporary Writers website: Kadija George Julia Golding Anthony Minghella Nicola Morgan Nii Ayikwei Parkes more...

New authors on site April 2007

The latest authors now added to the Contemporary Writers website are: Oliver Jeffers Robert McLiam Wilson Mihangel Morgan Stephen Poliakoff more...

New Authors on site March 2007

New authors added to the site: Matt Thorne Zena Edwards Rajeev Balasubramanyam Aidan Chambers Tash Aw more...

Celebration

We now have over 500 authors on the Contemporary Writers website. Photo: © J. Denby Joolz Denby was the 500th author to be added to the website. more...

New Authors on site February 2007

Authors recently added to the website: Sherry Ashworth William Dalrymple Meja Mwangi Wiliam Owen Roberts more...

Literature Matters November 2006

Welcome to the Autumn issue of Literature Matters - the e-zine from the Literature Department of the British Council. This issue is a fresh look at the work of the... more...