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Iain Bamforth was born in 1959 into a Plymouth Brethren family and grew up in Glasgow, where he attended the university. A poet, doctor and scientific translator, he now lives...
Iain Banks was born in Dunfermline, Fife, in Scotland in 1954 and was educated at Stirling University where he read English Literature, Philosophy and Psychology. He moved to London and...
Julie Bertagna writes for children and young adults. She was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, and studied English Language and Literature at Glasgow University. She then became editor of a small...
Alan Bissett was born in 1975 in Falkirk, Scotland, and studied at Stirling University. He taught English in secondary schools, before becoming a Creative Writing lecturer, first at the University...
William Boyd was born in Accra, Ghana, on 7 March 1952. He was educated at Gordonstoun School, Glasgow University and Jesus College, Oxford. His first novel, A Good Man in...
Novelist Christopher Brookmyre was born in Glasgow on 6 September 1968 and educated at Glasgow University. He has worked for the film magazine Screen International , and as sub-editor for...
Born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1965, poet Kate Clanchy was educated in Edinburgh and Oxford. She lived in London's East End for several years, before moving to Oxford where she...
Stewart Conn was born in Glasgow and grew up in Ayrshire. After studying at the University of Glasgow, he joined BBC Scotland, eventually becoming Senior Radio Drama Producer, a position...
Poet and critic Robert Crawford was born in Belshill, Lanarkshire, Scotland, in 1959, and grew up nearby. Educated at Glasgow University and at Oxford, he works as Professor of Modern...
Toni Davidson was born in Ayr, Scotland in 1965. He is the editor of two anthologies of short stories, And Thus Will I Freely Sing: An Anthology of Lesbian and...
Imtiaz Dharker was born in Pakistan, raised in Glasgow, and now lives between London and Mumbai. She works as a documentary film-maker in India, and is also an artist, having...
Des Dillon was born in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, Scotland, in 1960, and read English at Strathclyde University. A former teacher, he now writes for television, stage and radio and has taught...
Award-winning poet, author and playwright Chris Dolan was born in Glasgow, Scotland. His first play, The Veil, premiered at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh in 1991. His other plays include...
Poet, playwright and freelance writer Carol Ann Duffy was born on 23 December 1955 in Glasgow and read philosophy at Liverpool University. She is a former editor of the poetry...
Professor Douglas Dunn was born on on 23 October 1942 in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire. He was educated first at the Scottish School of Librarianship, and then at University of Hull, where...
Margaret Elphinstone was born in 1948 in Kent, and educated at Queen's College, London and the University of Durham. She is Professor of Writing at the University of Strathclyde in...
Aminatta Forna was born in Glasgow, raised in Sierra Leone and the United Kingdom and now divides her time between London and Sierra Leone. Her most recent published works are...
Janice Galloway’s first novel, The Trick is to Keep Breathing (1989), now widely regarded as a Scottish contemporary classic, was published in 1990 and won the MIND Book of the...
Alasdair Gray describes himself as a 'self-employed verbal and pictorial artist'. He was born in Riddrie, Glasgow, on 28 December 1934, and trained as a painter at the Glasgow School...
Andrew Greig was born on 23 September 1951 in Bannockburn, Scotland and grew up in Anstruther, Fife. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh and is a former Glasgow...
David Greig was born in Edinburgh in 1969 and brought up in Nigeria. He studied drama at Bristol University and is now a well-known writer and director of plays. He...
Jen Hadfield was born in Cheshire in 1978, and studied English Language and Literature at the University of Edinburgh. She was later awarded an M Litt (Distinction) from the Universities...
Playwright David Harrower was born in Edinburgh in 1966. His first play, Knives in Hens (1997), was first produced at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in 1995. He is also the...
Iain Heggie was born in Glasgow in 1953. His Mobil prize-winning play, A Wholly Healthy Glasgow (1988), and his John Whiting award-winning play, American Bagpipes (1989), both premiered at the...
Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, on 8 November 1954. He came to Britain in 1960 when his father began research at the National Institute of Oceanography, and was...
Crime novelist P. D. James was born in Oxford on 3 August 1920, the eldest daughter of an Inland Revenue Official. The family moved to Cambridge when she was 11,...
Jackie Kay was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1961 to a Scottish mother and a Nigerian father. She was adopted by a white couple at birth and was brought up...
James Kelman's early fiction includes the short-story collections An Old Pub Near the Angel (1973) and Not Not While the Giro (1983), and the novels The Busconductor Hines (1984) and...
Novelist and short-story writer A(lison) L(ouise) Kennedy was born in Dundee, Scotland on 22 October 1965. She studied English and Drama at Warwick University where she began writing dramatic monologues...
Andrea Levy was born in London, England in 1956 to Jamaican parents. She is the author of five novels, each of which explore - from different perspectives - the problems...
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