UK | 2018 Lawrence Osborne (Born 1958) is a novelist, journalist and travel writer from the U.K. who is currently based in Bangkok. After being educated at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge and [...]
USA | 2018 Terry Tempest Williams (born 8 September 1955), is an American author, conservationist, and activist. Williams’ writing is rooted in the American West and has been significantly [...]
UK | 2018 Nadifa Mohamed (born 1981 in Hargeisa, Somalia) is a Somali-British novelist. She featured on Granta magazine’s list “Best of Young British Novelists” in 2013, and in 2014 on [...]
UK | 2018 Sean Borodale was born in London in 1973 and lives in Liverpool and Ireland. He works as a poet and artist, making scripts and documentary poems written on location. He was Resident [...]
USA | 2017 Zachary Mason (born 1974) is a computer scientist and novelist.[1] He wrote The Lost Books of the Odyssey (2007; revised edition 2010), a variation on Homer, and Void Star (2017), a [...]
Libya | 2009 Hisham Matar (Arabic: هشام مطر) (born 1970)[1] is an American born British-Libyan writer.[2] His memoir of the search for his father, The Return, won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for [...]
Australia | 2017 Abigail Ulman was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia. She has a bachelor of creative arts degree from the University of Melbourne and was a recent Wallace Stegner Fellow in [...]
Turkey | 2017 One of the Turkey’s best known novelists and political commentators who also have been published in The Guardian, The New York Times, Newstatesman, Frankfurter Allgemeine and Der [...]
UK | 2017 Helen Simpson is the author of six short-story collections: Four Bare Legs in a Bed (1990), Dear George (1995), Hey Yeah Right Get a Life (2000), Constitutional (2005), In-Flight [...]
Sweden, UK | 2017 Karin Altenberg was born in Sweden and moved to Britain in 1996. She currently lives in London. Her first novel, Island of Wings, was nominated for the Orange Prize, the Saltire [...]