D’Aguiar, Fred
Fred D’Aguiar grew up in Guyana, returning to England in his teens. He is the author of five novels, including The Longest Memory, which won the David Higham Prize for Fiction and the Whitbread First Novel Award. His eighth poetry collection, Letters to America was a Poetry Book Society Choice. His numerous plays have been […]
Davies, Carys
Carys Davies’s debut novel West was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, runner up for the Society of Authors’ McKitterick Prize, and winner of the Wales Book of the Year for Fiction. Her second novel The Mission House was The Sunday Times 2020 Novel Of The Year. She is also the author of two collections […]
Daunt, James
James Daunt is the founder of Daunt Books – now a chain of six bookshops across London which manage to combine an independent ethos with commercial success. They are renowned for their good-quality stock, knowledgeable staff and literary events, and for welcoming customers to browse and read in comfortable chairs. In 2011, Daunt became Managing […]
de Grazia, Margreta
Margreta de Grazia is Emerita Professor of English and the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. The focus of her work is on Shakespeare and the manifold editorial and critical processes that have secured his cultural supremacy. Her first book Shakespeare Verbatim (Oxford, 1991) traces the emergence of Shakespeare as a modern author from late […]
Douglas, Jonathan
Jonathan Douglas CBE is CEO of the National Literacy Trust. He is a Trustee of the Philosophy Foundation and of World Book Day. He is passionate about promoting access to literature and addressing inequality through literacy, leading in depth work in the country’s14 most disadvantaged cities and national programmes. He has lobbied and campaigned extensively […]
de Waal, Edmund
Edmund de Waal CBE is both an acclaimed artist and a writer. He is best known for his large-scale installations of porcelain vessels, often created in response to collections and archives or the history of a particular place. His interventions have been made for diverse spaces and museums worldwide, including The British Museum, London; The […]
Dawson, Jill
Jill Dawson is the author of ten novels including The Language of Birds — the story of the nanny murdered in the Lucan household in 1974 — The Crime Writer (winner, East Anglian Book of the Year), Fred & Edie (shortlisted for The Whitbread and Orange Prize) and Watch Me Disappear (longlisted for the Orange Prize). The Great Lover, […]
Dugdale, Sasha
Sasha Dugdale has published six collections of poems with Carcanet, her latest, The Strongbox, was published in 2024. Joy, published in 2017, was a PBS Choice. She won the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem in 2016 and in 2017 she was awarded a Cholmondeley Prize for Poetry. Sasha Dugdale’s translations of the Russian poet Maria Stepanova are published […]
Draycott, Jane
Jane Draycott is a poet and translator. Her most recent collections from Carcanet include Over, shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize, Pearl — her award-winning translation of the medieval dream-elegy — and The Occupant, written following her time as Writer in Residence in Amsterdam. A Next Generation poet, her work has been nominated three […]
Delany, Paul
Paul Delany is a biographer and literary critic. Born in England, he taught at Columbia University and then at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. He wrote two biographies about a central figure in the context of his friends: D. H. Lawrence’s Nightmare (about the writer during the First World War) and The Neo-Pagans (about Rupert Brooke […]
De Angelis, April
April De Angelis’s plays include Jumpy (Royal Court West End, Sydney), Playhouse Creatures ( Old Vic, Chichester), The Village ( Stratford East), Flight – libretto (Glyndebourne, International), A Laughing Matter (National Theatre), and My Brilliant Friend – an adaptation of the Ferrante novels (Olivier Theatre).
Dawes, Kwame
Kwame Dawes spent most of his childhood and early adult life in Jamaica. He is the Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner and Chancellor’s Professor of English at the University of Nebraska- Lincoln. He has written 21 books of poetry and numerous books of fiction, criticism and essays. He is director of the African Poetry […]