Palmer, Judith
Judith Palmer has been Director of The Poetry Society since 2008, where she has focused on developing new generations of poets and commissioning new work. A writer, broadcaster and journalist, she has a background in literature development (including at the Southbank Centre and the Women’s Library) in publishing, and curating public event programmes. She has […]
Persaud, Ingrid
Ingrid Persaud is a Trinidadian writer, artist and former legal academic who lives in London. Her prize-winning debut novel Love After Love, (Faber & Faber 2020) won the Costa First Novel Award (2020), Author’s Club First Novel Award (2020) and the Indie Book Award for Fiction (2021). Her short story The Sweet Sop also won the BBC National Short […]
Parkes, Nii Ayikwei
Nii Ayikwei is a curator, editor and writer. His debut novel, Tail of the Blue Bird, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize and won France’s two major prizes for translated fiction – Prix Baudelaire and Prix Laure Bataillon – in 2014. Translated in multiple languages, he has also written for National Geographic, Financial Times, the […]
Pollard, Clare
Clare has published five collections of poetry, most recently Incarnation. Her play The Weather was performed at The Royal Court Theatre. Her translations include Ovid’s Heroines, which she toured as a one-woman show. She has also written the non-fiction Fierce Bad Rabbits: The Tales Behind Childrens’ Picture Book, a children’s novel, The Untameables, and two […]
Polley, Jacob
Jacob was born and grew up in Cumbria. He has published five books of poems with Picador, UK. His fourth, Jackself, won the 2016 T.S. Eliot Prize for poetry; his third, The Havocs, won the 2012 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. His 2009 novel, Talk of the Town, set in and around Carlisle on one day […]
Pullinger, Kate
Kate writes for both print and digital platforms. Her most recent novel, Forest Green, was published by Doubleday in 2020. Her most recent digital fiction Breathe, a ghost story for smartphones, was shortlisted for the New Media Writing Prize 2019, and is available for free on your phone. In 2009, Pullinger’s novel The Mistress of […]
Pearce, Phillipa
Author of Tom’s Midnight Garden, Ann Philippa Pearce was a beloved writer of children’s fiction. She was also an editor, nurturing the careers of many other writers. Writing a great many children’s books following a career in the BBC writing scripts for broadcasting, she was awarded an OBE in 1997 for contribution to children’s literature.
Press, John
John Press was not only a great poet but an advocate for the arts, campaigning tirelessly for the creation of a Department of Literature within the British Council to celebrate the long history of British proficiency in writing. He was also an editor for a number of anthologies, striving to do justice to the English […]
Paget (The Marquess of Anglesey), Henry
Phelps, Humphrey
Painter, George
George Painter, known as George D. Painter, was an English author most famous as a biographer of Marcel Proust. His two-volume biography of Proust was published in 1959 and 1965. According to Miron Grindea, this was, ‘rightly greeted as one of the great achievements in literary history’, and it is still widely considered to be one […]