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Khalil, Hannah

Playwright Hannah Khalil is the Resident Writer at Shakespeare’s Globe 2022. Her stage plays include The Fir Tree and Henry VIII (Globe), A Museum in Baghdad (RSC ) The Scar Test (Soho Theatre), Scenes from 68* Years (Arcola) and Interference (National Theatre of Scotland). Hannah has also written extensively for television and radio. She was […]

Kapil, Bhanu

Bhanu Kapil is a poet. Her newest book, How To Wash A Heart (Liverpool University Press), won the T.S. Eliot Prize. Kapil lives and writes in Cambridge, where she is a Fellow of Churchill College. The recipient of a Windham-Campbell Prize and a Cholomondeley Award, both for poetry, she is the author of six full-length […]

Kirkwood, Lucy

Lucy Kirkwood is a playwright and screenwriter. Her plays include It Felt Empty When the Heart Went At First But It Is Alright Now (nominated for an Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright, winner of the John Whiting Award 2010), NSFW, Chimerica (Olivier, Evening Standard, Critics’ Circle and Susan Smith Blackburn awards), The Children […]

Kerr, Philip

Philip Kerr was an advertising copywriter before becoming a full-time writer in 1989. He wrote over 30 books, and is known for the Bernie Gunther series of historical thrillers set in Germany and elsewhere during the 1930s, the Second World War and the Cold War.

Keating, Roly

Roly Keating has been Chief Executive of the British Library since 2012. He has overseen a series of significant developments, including the historic move to large-scale digital collecting through legal deposit; the incorporation into the Library of the Public Lending Right service; the Library’s successful and popular 800th-anniversary commemorations of Magna Carta; and the launch […]

Kennedy QC, Baroness Helena

Baroness Helena Kennedy QC has long been one of our great barristers, creating new law for women in the process. During her tenure as Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford, she raised money for a new Human Rights Centre as well as hosting a regular stream of writers and human rights champions for public talks. She […]