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USA | 2005, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2016 Andrew Sean Greer, born in 1970 in Washington D.C., is the bestselling author of The Story of a Marriage and The Confessions of Max Tivoli, which was named a [...]

Tasmania | 2005 Richard Flanagan was born in 1961, descended from Irish convicts transported to Van Diemens Land (later renamed Tasmania) during the Great Famine. He left school at sixteen to [...]

UK | 2005, 2008 Nadeem Aslam was born in 1966 in Gujranwala – Pakistan. He came to Britain at the age of 14 when his father, a poet and a movie-maker, had to leave his country and went to live in [...]

Scotland | 2002 Helena McEwen’s first novel The Big House was shortlisted for the 2000 Booker Prize and the 2001 Whitbread First Novel Award. She grew up in Scotland and now lives in London. [...]

USA | 2004 Doug Wright won the 2000 Obie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Playwriting for his play Quills, and his screenplay adaptation was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. The film was [...]

Canada | 2004 Emma Richler grew up in London, England, and in Montreal. She trained as an actress at the Circle in the Square in New York City and has worked in the UK in theatre, film, [...]

USA | 2004 Maile Meloy is the author of the novel Liars and Saints and the story collection Half in Love . Her stories have been published in The New Yorker , The Paris Review , and other [...]

UK | 2004 Jon McGregor was born in Bermuda in 1976, and grew up in Norfolk. His first novel, If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things, was published in 2002 and won both the Betty Trask Prize and [...]

Greece | 2004 Panos Karnezis was born in Greece in 1967. He came to England in 1992 to study engineering, and worked in industry before starting to write. He was awarded an MA in Creative Writing [...]

France | 2004 Denis Grozdanovitch was born in Paris in 1946. A champion squash and tennis player, as well as professional chess player, he received a diploma from Institut des Hautes études [...]