Mark Haddon

Mark Haddon

male, 46 years old
poet Savant Syndrome Autism Guardian award winner Commonwealth Writers Prize Asperger's syndrome … Whitbread Book Awards
Mark Haddon (born 1962 in Northampton) is a novelist and poet, who was educated at Uppingham School and Merton College, Oxford, where he studied... More
Claire Tomalin

Claire Tomalin

female, 75 years old
Wikipedia Samuel Johnson Prize Whitbread Book Award Whitbread Book Awards Sunday Times Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge
Claire Tomalin (born 20 June 1933) is an English biographer and journalist. She studied at Newnham College, Cambridge. She was literary editor of... More
Matthew Kneale

Matthew Kneale

male, 47 years old
novelist Mr Foreigner Whore Banquets English Passenger Whitbread Book Award Inside Rose's Kingdom … Whitbread Book Awards
Matthew Kneale (born November 24, 1960) is a British writer, best known for his 2000 novel "English Passengers", which won the prestigious... More
Patrick Neate

Patrick Neate

male
Doctor St. Paul's School Hospital Doctor Minx The Times The Sunday Times … Whitbread Book Awards
Patrick Neate is a British novelist, journalist and playwright.
Christopher Nolan

Christopher Nolan

male, 43 years old
Dublin Theatre Festival Torchlight And Lazer Beams Theatre director rock music Gaiety Theatre, Dublin mother … Whitbread Book Awards
Christopher Nolan (born in Dublin, 1965) is an Irish author. He was educated at the Central Remedial Clinic School, Mount Temple Comprehensive... More

Joan Brady

female
Columbia University writer new york city ballet American thriller Whitbread Book Awards
Joan Brady is the first woman, and so far the only American, to win Britain's Whitbread Book of the Year Award. Her second novel, "Theory of War",... More
Jeff Torrington

Jeff Torrington

male, 73 years old
novelist Swing Hammer Swing Scottish Whitbread Book Awards From GLASGOW parkinsons disease sufferer
Jeff Torrington (born in Glasgow in 1935) is a Scottish novelist. His novels draw on the changing face of modern Scotland. "Swing Hammer Swing"... More
Rachel Zadok

Rachel Zadok

female
Kensington Richard and Judy Kensington, South Africa 2005 Whitbread Awards pan macmillan Whitbread First Novel Award nominee … Whitbread Book Awards
Rachel Zadok is a writer and a Whitbread First Novel Award nominee (2005). She is a graduate of the Certificate in Novel Writing course, run by the... More
Hanif Kureishi

Hanif Kureishi

male, 53 years old
British Pakistanis postcolonial literature From London novelist Short story writer Screenwriter … Whitbread Book Awards
Hanif Kureishi (born December 5, 1954) is a Pakistani-British playwright, screenwriter, and novelist and short story writer on topics of race,... More
Penelope Lively

Penelope Lively

female, 75 years old
obe Carnegie Medal Order of the British Empire Royal Society of Literature Alumni of St Anne's College, Oxford Whitbread Book Awards
Penelope Lively CBE (born March 17, 1933) is a prolific, popular and critically acclaimed author of fiction for both children and adults. She has... More