Rohinton Mistry

Rohinton Mistry

male, 57 years old
Governor General's Award winning fiction writer, Bombay University, Indo-Canadian, Commonwealth Writers Prize, Books in Canada First Novel Award, short stories…Man Booker Prize, booker prize
Rohinton Mistry was born in Bombay, India in 1952 and immigrated to Canada in 1975 where he took employment working for a Toronto bank. After...
Vikram Chandra

Vikram Chandra

male
Indian American, American, University of California, Berkeley, Hindu, Faber and Faber, Commonwealth Writers Prize
Vikram Chandra is an emerging Indian writer who has won awards and critical acclaim for his novels and short stories. He is married to writer...
Mark Haddon

Mark Haddon

male, 47 years old
poet, Savant Syndrome, Autism, Guardian award winner, Commonwealth Writers Prize, Asperger's syndrome
Mark Haddon (born 1962 in Northampton) is a novelist and poet, who was educated at Uppingham School and Merton College, Oxford, where he studied...
Austin Clarke

Austin Clarke

male, 75 years old
Canadian of Barbadian descent, Barbadian, Commonwealth Writers Prize, immigrant to Canada, Barbadian Canadian, kirkland…Giller Prize
Austin Ardinel Chesterfield Clarke, CM, O.Ont (born 26 July 1934) is a Canadian novelist, essayist and short story writer who lives in Toronto,...
C. K. Stead

C. K. Stead

male, 77 years old
writer, Sleeping Dogs, New Zealand film, New Zealand cinema, Mansfield A Novel, Christian Karlson Stead…Commonwealth Writers Prize
Christian Karlson Stead, ONZ, CBE, (born October 17 1932) is a New Zealand writer whose works include novels, poetry, short stories, and literary...
Richard Flanagan

Richard Flanagan

male, 48 years old
novelist, West Coast, Tasmania, Hydro Tasmania, The Sound of One Hand Clapping, Franklin River, A terrible beauty - History of the Gordon…Commonwealth Writers Prize
Richard Flanagan (born 1961) is an author, historian and film director from Tasmania, Australia. He was president of the Tasmania University Union...
Kenneth J. Harvey

Kenneth J. Harvey

male, 47 years old
novelist, editorials, Kenneth Joseph Thomas Harvey, Directions for an Opened Body, The Town That Forgot How to Breathe, Island of Newfoundland…Commonwealth Writers Prize
Kenneth Joseph Thomas Harvey (born 22 January 1962) is a Canadian writer. Born in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, he is the author of...

Louis de Bernières

male, 55 years old
Old Bradfieldian, novelist, 20 Best of Young British Novelist, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Commonwealth Writers Prize, British Book Awards
Louis de Bernières is a British novelist most famous for his book "Captain Corelli's Mandolin". In 1993, de Bernières was selected as one of the "2...
Lorna Goodison

Lorna Goodison

female, 62 years old
Jamaican women writer, caribbean, Caribbean women writer, writer, poet, Commonwealth Writers Prize
Lorna Goodison was born in 1947 in Kingston, Jamaica. She grew up in a home with eight siblings and her father and mother, who operated on the...
Frances Itani

Frances Itani

female, 67 years old
Canadian women writer, Deafening, Frances Susan Itani, Authors selected for Canada Reads, Commonwealth Writers Prize, nursing
Frances Susan Itani (born 25 August 1942) is a Canadian fiction writer, poet and essayist. Itani was born in Belleville, Ontario and grew up in...