Shoneyin, Lola

Lola Shoneyin is a Nigerian poet, novelist and publisher. She is the author of three poetry collections, ten children’s books and the novel The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives. Longlisted for the Orange Prize, it won the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award. It was been widely translated and adapted for stage and screen. […]

Terry, Philip

Philip Terry was born in Belfast, and is a poet and translator. The Penguin Book of Oulipo, which he edited, was published in Penguin Modern Classics in 2020, and Carcanet published his edition of Jean-Luc Champerret’s The Lascaux Notebooks, the first ever anthology of Ice Age poetry, in 2022. His version of Dante’s Purgatorio, relocated […]

Taylor, Joelle

Joelle Taylor is the author of 4 collections of poetry. Her most recent collection C+NTO & Othered Poems (Westbourne Press) won the 2021 T.S Eliot Prize; and is the subject of a Radio 4 arts documentary Butch. She is co-curator and host of Out-Spoken Live, resident at the Southbank Centre, and the current editor of […]

Thompson, Emma

Dame Emma Thompson is one of the world’s most critically-lauded and respected talents for her versatility in acting as well as screenwriting.  She is the sole artist thus far to have received an Academy Award for both acting (Howards End) and screenwriting (Sense and Sensibility). In June of 2018 she was appointed a Dame Commander of […]

Tonkin, Boyd

Boyd Tonkin is a journalist, editor and critic who currently writes on literature and other arts for international media including The Economist, The Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and The Spectator. As Literary Editor and then Senior Writer of The Independent, he re-founded The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, with Arts Council England, and judged it […]

Thorne, Jack

Jack Thorne is a writer of film, television and theatre. In film, his credits include Wonder, The Aeronauts, Radioactive and The Secret Garden. His television work includes National Treasure, Kiri, Don’t Take My Baby, The Virtues, His Dark Materials and The Eddy. For theatre, his plays include Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, When You Cure Me, Hope, A Christmas Carol and the end of […]

Tillyard, Stella

Stella Tillyard was educated at Oxford and Harvard Universities and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She is the author of 8 books, including The Impact of Modernism, Aristocrats, Citizen Lord, and, most recently, The Great Level. Her work has been translated into several languages and sold hundreds of thousands of copies. […]