Farr, David
David Farr is a playwright, screenwriter and novelist. He was previously Artistic Director of London’s Gate Theatre, Bristol Old Vic and The Lyric Hammersmith. He has written six original plays, published by Faber and Faber. His adaptations for stage include Kafka’s Metamorphosis and Homer’s The Odyssey. His first film The Ones Below premiered in 2015 […]
France, Linda
Linda has published 10 collections of poetry since 1990. Her latest include Laurel Prize winner The Knucklebone Floor and Startling. Linda was named inaugural Environmental Poet of the Year 2022-23 in the Michael Marks Awards. She won the Poetry Society’s National Poetry Competition in 2013 and has received a Society of Authors’ Cholmondeley Award. A […]
Freud, Annie
Annie’s debut pamphlet was published by Donut Press and followed by four collections with Picador. The Best Man That Ever was awarded the Dimplex Prize and The Mirabelles was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2015, and was followed by The Remains. Hiddensee is her most recent collection. She taught a thriving poetry composition […]
Faber, Sir Richard
Sir Richard Faber wrote well-crafted books of 19th-century English history, and a biography of the courtier Sir William Temple. He ended his diplomatic career as Ambassador to Algeria. Faber was appointed CMG in 1977, and was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, which he served as honorary treasurer from 1986 to 1991.
Fussell, Paul
Furbank, P.N.
Forster, Margaret
Fry, Christopher
Christopher Fry was an English poet and playwright. He is best known for his verse dramas, notably The Lady’s Not for Burning. He was, with T.S. Eliot, the leading figure in the revival of poetic drama that took place in Britain in the late 1940s.
Fan, Kit
Kit Fan is a poet, novelist and critic. His first book of poems, Paper Scissors Stone (2011), won the inaugural HKU International Poetry Prize. As Slow As Possible (2018) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and one of the Irish Times’ Books of the Year. He has also won a Northern Writers Award, the Times […]
Flynn, Leontia
Leontia Flynn has published four collections of poetry with Jonathan Cape. She has won the Forward prize for best First Collection, the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Lawrence O’Shaughnessy award for Irish poetry, and the AWB Vincent American Ireland Fund literary award. Her most recent poetry Collection, The Radio (2017) was shortlisted for the […]
Francis, Joy
Joy is co-founder and executive director of Words of Colour, which has developed, facilitated, produced and promoted writers of colour since 2006. A creative entrepreneur and writer, Joy is a longstanding activist for racial equality and cultural inclusion in literature, publishing and the media, collaborating with universities, theatres, publishers, booksellers, writers and artists of all genres, here and […]
Franklin, Dan
Dan Franklin was born in 1949. He read English and American Literature and History at UEA, graduating in 1970. His publishing career began at Peter Owen Ltd. From there he moved to the Harvill Press, then Collins, then Heinemann, where he was Editorial Director for non-fiction. He then became Publishing Director of Secker & Warburg, […]