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A. S. Byatt
A. S. Byatt (Dame Antonia Susan Duffy, née Drabble, 1936–2023), British novelist and critic; sister of Margaret Drabble; won the 1990 Booker Prize for Possession and wrote the Frederica Quartet.
Alan Sillitoe
Alan Sillitoe (1928–2010) was a British writer from Nottingham whose first two books, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, defined the postwar working-class novel.
Alasdair Gray
Alasdair Gray (1934–2019), Scottish writer and artist from Glasgow, author of Lanark, 1982 Janine, and Poor Things (Whitbread winner), muralist of the Òran Mór ceiling and author of the motto 'Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation'.
Andrea Levy
Andrea Levy (1956–2019), British novelist and Windrush-generation daughter, wrote Small Island (Orange Prize, Whitbread Book of the Year) and The Long Song (Booker shortlist, Walter Scott Prize).
Angela Carter
Angela Carter (1940-1992) was an English novelist and journalist known for The Bloody Chamber (1979), feminist fairy-tale rewritings, The Sadeian Woman, and magic-realist novels like Nights at the Circus and Wise Children.
Anne Enright
Anne Enright is an Irish novelist, short story writer, and essayist who won the 2007 Man Booker Prize for The Gathering and was the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction.
Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess, pen name of John Anthony Burgess Wilson, was an English novelist, critic, and composer who wrote 33 novels, most famously A Clockwork Orange (1962).
Ashani Lewis
Ashani Lewis is a British writer whose debut novel, Winter Animals (2024), won the 2025 Betty Trask Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award; her story collection Everest followed in 2024.
Barbara Pym
Barbara Pym, born Barbara Mary Crampton Pym (1913 to 1980), was an English novelist of comic manners about unmarried women and Anglican clergy, revived in 1977 after sixteen years unpublished.
Benjamin Wood (writer)
Benjamin Wood (born 1981) is a British novelist, author of The Bellwether Revivals, The Ecliptic, and the Booker-longlisted Seascraper (2025); not the academic or historian of the same name.
Bernardine Evaristo
Bernardine Evaristo is a British writer whose work spans fiction, verse fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction. Her novel Girl, Woman, Other shared the 2019 Booker Prize with Margaret Atwood's winning novel, making.
Beryl Bainbridge
Dame Beryl Bainbridge (1932–2010) was an English novelist known for short, darkly comic fiction; she was shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, more than anyone without winning.
Brian Moore (novelist)
Brian Moore (1921-1999), Belfast-born novelist also published as Bernard Mara and Michael Bryan, wrote some twenty novels including The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, Black Robe, and Lies of Silence, winning two Governor General's Awards and three Booker shortlistings; Graham Greene called him his favorite living novelist.
C. P. Snow
C. P. Snow (Charles Percy Snow) was an English novelist and physical chemist known for the Strangers and Brothers series and the 1959 "two cultures" lecture.
Carys Davies
Carys Davies, Welsh novelist and short story writer, author of West, The Mission House, and Clear; winner of the 2025 Ondaatje Prize, Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, Wales Book of the Year, and Frank O'Connor Short Story Award.
Chloe Michelle Howarth
Chloe Michelle Howarth (born 1996) is an Irish novelist from West Cork, author of Sunburn (2023), Heap Earth Upon It, and the forthcoming Aftertaste (2027), sapphic literary fiction set in rural Ireland.
Christy Brown
Christy Brown (1932–1981), Irish writer, painter, and poet with cerebral palsy who controlled only his left foot; author of My Left Foot (1954) and Down All the Days (1970); subject of Jim Sheridan's 1989 Oscar-winning film.
Coco Mellors
Coco Mellors (born 1989, London) is a British novelist, NYT bestselling author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein (2022) and Blue Sisters (2024), both translated into over thirty languages and adapted for screen.
Colm Tóibín
Colm Tóibín, Irish novelist (born 1955, Enniscorthy, County Wexford), author of The Master, Brooklyn, Nora Webster, and The Magician; three-time Booker shortlistee, Costa and IMPAC winner, Columbia professor, Laureate for Irish Fiction 2022–2024.
David Mitchell (author)
David Mitchell (born 1969) is the English novelist of Ghostwritten, Cloud Atlas, The Bone Clocks, and Utopia Avenue, twice Booker-shortlisted and known for genre-hopping interlinked novels sharing one universe. Not the comedian of the same name.
David Nicholls (writer)
David Nicholls is an English novelist and screenwriter, known for his third novel One Day, a multimillion-selling bestseller adapted for film and television, and the BAFTA-winning screenplay Patrick Melrose.
Djamel White
Djamel White is an Irish writer and editor from Dublin whose debut novel All Them Dogs (2026, John Murray Press/Riverhead) was longlisted for the 2026 Booker Prize, shortlisted for the 2026 Tom Wolfe Prize, and made him the youngest and only Irish author on the longlist.
Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing (Doris May Taylor, 1919-2013), British novelist born in Persia and raised in Southern Rhodesia, author of The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook, Nobel Prize in Literature 2007.
Edna O'Brien
Edna O'Brien (1930–2024), Irish novelist and short-story writer from Tuamgraney, County Clare. Her debut The Country Girls (1960) was banned in Ireland; later honors included the Saoi of Aosdána (2015) and the novel Girl (2019).
Edward St Aubyn
Edward St Aubyn (born 1960, London) is a British novelist, author of the semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose quintet including Mother's Milk, shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize.
Elizabeth Day
Elizabeth Day, British novelist, journalist and broadcaster, author of Scissors Paper Stone, The Party, Magpie and One of Us, and host of the How To Fail podcast.
Emma Donoghue
Emma Donoghue (born Dublin, 1969) is an Irish-Canadian novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and literary historian living in London, Ontario; author of Room (2010), a Man Booker-shortlisted bestseller adapted into an Oscar-winning film, plus The Wonder, The Pull of the Stars, and The Paris Express.
Esther Freud
Esther Freud, born in London in 1963, is a British novelist best known for her semi-autobiographical 1992 debut Hideous Kinky, made into a film starring Kate Winslet.
Fay Weldon
Fay Weldon (Franklin Birkinshaw, 1931–2023), British novelist and screenwriter, author of The Life and Loves of a She-Devil and Booker-shortlisted Praxis; wrote Upstairs Downstairs pilot, BBC Pride and Prejudice, and The Bulgari Connection; CBE 2001.
Ferdia Lennon
Ferdia Lennon, Irish novelist from Dublin with a Libyan father, author of the 2024 debut Glorious Exploits, a Sunday Times bestseller set in 412 BC Syracuse narrated in Dublin vernacular, winner of the Waterstones Debut Fiction and Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prizes.