Achebe, Chinua
Ariaratnam, Suresh
Suresh Ariaratnam is the founder of Sprung Sultan, which represents writers from Black and Asian communities predominantly. Alongside the storyteller Jan Blake, he runs an advisory facilitating organisational change through storytelling, with a focus on equity, diversity, and inclusion. He is a trustee of Bath Festivals, Theatre Royal Bath, and Literature Works South West, and […]
Alibhai-Brown, Yasmin
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown was exiled from her birthplace, Uganda, in 1972 and is a journalist, broadcaster, and author. She writes for the i newspaper and Sunday Times magazine and has written for the Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times, Mail on Sunday, Daily Mail, New York Times, Time Magazine and other publications. She has won several awards including […]
Agard, Sandra
Sandra A. Agard is a professional storyteller, author, tutor, playwright, literary consultant, editor and cultural historian. She has worked for over forty years in libraries as a literature development officer. She has worked in educational, cultural institutions, organisations and literary festivals throughout the UK and in the United States. Her published works include numerous books, […]
Addonia, Sulaiman
Sulaiman Addonia is an Eritrean-Ethiopian-British novelist. His first novel, The Consequences of Love, shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, was translated into more than 20 languages. Silence is My Mother Tongue, his second novel, was longlisted for the 2019 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, and was a finalist for the 2021 Firecracker Awards in Fiction, […]
Arshi, Mona
Mona Arshi’s debut collection Small Hands won the Forward Prize for best first collection in 2015. Her second collection ‘Dear Big Gods’ was published in 2019 (both books published by Liverpool University Press’s Pavilion Poetry list). Her writing has been published in The Times, The Guardian, Granta, The Yale Review and The Times of India […]
Arditti, Michael
Michael Arditti has written twelve novels and a collection of short stories. He began his professional career writing plays for the radio and stage and has worked extensively as a literary and dramatic critic. His novels have been short- and long-listed for several major prizes. He has been a Leverhulme artist in residence at the […]
Atkin, Polly
Polly Atkin is a poet and nonfiction writer, living in the English Lake District. Her first poetry collection Basic Nest Architecture (Seren: 2017) is followed by Much With Body (Seren, 2021), awarded a 2020 Northern Writers Award. Her biography Recovering Dorothy: The Hidden Life of Dorothy Wordsworth (Saraband, 2021), is the first to focus on […]
Armitstead, Claire
Claire Armitstead is associate editor (culture) for the Guardian and Observer and a Guardian leader writer on literature and the arts. She worked for the South Wales Argus, the Hampstead & Highgate Express and the Financial Times before arriving at the Guardian in 1992, where her roles have included arts editor, literary editor and head […]
Andoh, Adjoa
Adjoa Andoh is one of Britain’s leading actors, and won global acclaim as Lady Danbury in the Netflix smash Bridgerton – a role that saw her nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress at the 2021 NAACP Image Awards. She has been celebrated for roles in the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre, including Condoleezza Rice […]
Ashton, Zawe
Zawe Ashton is an actor, director, producer, playwright and novelist. Her portrayal of Vod in Channel 4’s FRESH MEAT won her a cult following, and the diversity of her work across television, film, and stage has attracted numerous accolades and awards. Recent credits include the BBC/Netflix TV series WANDERLUST and the Netflix feature film VELVET BUZZSAW, in which she starred […]
Applebaum, Anne
Anne Applebaum is a journalist and a historian. She is a staff writer for The Atlantic and a senior fellow at the Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, where she co-leads a project on 21st century disinformation. Her books include Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine; Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956; Gulag: A History, which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction; and […]