Ellmann, Lucy
Lucy Ellmann is a novelist. Her first novel, Sweet Desserts, won the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1988. Her most recent, Ducks, Newburyport, was shortlisted for the Booker, won the Goldsmiths Prize and the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction, and shared Sweden’s Kulturhuset Stadsteatern’s 2023 International Book of the Year award with its translator. Born […]
Eshun, Ekow
Ekow Eshun is a writer, curator and broadcaster. He is the author of books including The Strangers, longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and the Jhalak Prize, and the memoir Black Gold of the Sun, shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. Hailed by the Guardian as ‘a cultural polymath’, he was the first Black editor of […]
Evans, Martina
Martina Evans is an Irish poet, novelist and teacher. She grew up in County Cork and has lived in London since 1988. The author of thirteen books of prose and poetry, Evans’s first novel, Midnight Feast, (Sinclair-Stevenson) won a Betty Trask Award in 1996. This was followed by The Glass Mountain (Sinclair-Stevenson 1997) and her third […]
Eco, Umberto
Enright, D.J.
Dennis Joseph ‘D.J.’ Enright was a British academic, poet, novelist and critic. He spent the best part of twenty five years lecturing abroad in Japan, Thailand and Singapore to name but a few of the Far East countries he explored. By 1974 he was director of publishing house Chatto and Windus. In 1981 Enright was awarded […]
Eddo-Lodge, Reni
Reni Eddo-Lodge is a journalist, author, and podcaster. Her debut nonfiction book, Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, was published in June 2017 to critical acclaim. In 2020, she made history by becoming the first Black British author to have written the number one selling book in the British book charts. A Sunday […]
Edwards, Yvvette
Yvvette Edwards is a British East Londoner of Montserratian origin and author of two novels, A Cupboard Full of Coats and The Mother. Her short stories have been published in anthologies and broadcast on radio. Her work has been nominated for a number of literary awards including the Booker Prize. She is particularly interested in writing that challenges […]
Eaves, Will
Will Eaves is a novelist, poet, teacher and musician. He has been Arts Editor of The Times Literary Supplement (1995–2011) and Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Warwick (2011–2020). His books have been shortlisted for many prizes. His most recent novel, Murmur (2018), won the tenth anniversary Wellcome Book Prize and […]
Evans, Diana
Diana Evans is the author of the novels Ordinary People, The Wonder and 26a, which was the inaugural winner of the Orange Award for New Writers. Ordinary People won the 2019 South Bank Sky Arts Award for Literature and was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Rathbones Folio Prize and the Orwell Prize […]
Ellams, Inua
Inua Ellams, born in Nigeria, is a poet, playwright and performer, graphic artist and designer. He is a Complete Works poet alumnus and facilitates workshops in creative writing where he explores recurring themes in his work – identity, displacement and destiny – in accessible ways for participants of all ages and backgrounds. Inua has written […]
Evans, Sir Richard
Egremont (Lord Egremont), Max
