Dillsworth, Elise
Elise Dillsworth is a literary agent. Previously she was a commissioning editor at Virago Press. In 2004 she co-founded the Diversity in Publishing Network to encourage people from diverse cultural backgrounds to enter the workforce. In 2012 she established Elise Dillsworth Literary Agency with the keen aim to reflect international writing. Her authors have won […]
Duncker, Patricia
Patricia Duncker is a novelist and an academic. Born and brought up in Jamaica, she was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge and St Hugh’s College, Oxford. She taught English Literature at several different universities in Britain and Europe. She is Professor Emeritus at the University of Manchester. Patricia Duncker is the author of Hallucinating Foucault […]
Day, Elizabeth
Elizabeth is an award-winning author and broadcaster. Her five novels include Scissors Paper Stone (which won a Betty Trask Award), The Party (a Richard & Judy Book Club pick) and the Sunday Times bestseller Magpie. She has also written four works of non-fiction, including How To Fail (which was born out of the chart-topping podcast […]
Dunant, Sarah
Sarah studied history at Newnham College, Cambridge from where she went on to become a writer, broadcaster, teacher and critic. She has written 12 novels, four of which have been shortlisted for awards, and edited two books of essays. She worked for many years for the BBC in radio and television including BBC 2’s arts […]
Dickinson, Peter
Donaghy, Michael
Michael Donaghy was a New York poet and musician, who lived in London from 1985. He published his first full collection, Shibboleth, in 1988 which won the National Poetry Competition. Errata followed in 1993, and Conjure in 2000. Recognition came in the form of the Geoffrey Faber and Cholmondeley awards and the Whitebread and Forward […]
Davidson, Lionel
Diski, Jenny
T Davies, Russell
Russell T Davies was awarded the 2006 Dennis Potter Award at BAFTA for his writing services to television and an OBE in the Queen’s 2008 Birthday Honours list for services to drama. Russell was born in Swansea in 1963. A graduate of Oxford University, he completed the BBC Director’s course before becoming a TV producer. […]
Dearden, Steve
Steve Dearden co-founded the Writing Squad in 2001 and it remains the only source of long-term support for young writers in the north of England, whatever they write and wherever they live. Squad writers have been broadcast by every UK channel, produced at all the national and many regional and fringe theatres, published by presses […]
Dennis, Ferdinand
Ferdinand Dennis attended the University of Leicester and Birkbeck College, University of London. His prose fiction works are the novels The Sleepless Summer, The Last Blues Dance, and Duppy Conqueror; and a short story collection, The Black and White Museum. His non-fiction books include Behind the Frontlines, Journey into Afro-Britain and Back to Africa, a […]
de Waal, Kit
Kit de Waal, born to an Irish mother and Caribbean father, was brought up among the Irish community of Birmingham in the ‘60s and ‘70s. Her debut novel My Name Is Leon was an international bestseller, shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and won the Kerry Group Irish […]