Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson

female, 50 years old
organic food, Magic realism writer, WhitbreadPrize, napoleonic, John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, BBC
Jeanette Winterson OBE (born August 27, 1959) is a British novelist. Born in Manchester, she was adopted by a Pentecostal couple, who brought her...
Bernard O'Donoghue

Bernard O'Donoghue

male, 64 years old
Outliving, WhitbreadPrize, Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, Carcanet Press, Oxford Poet…Whitbread Prize for Poetry
Bernard O'Donoghue (born 1945) is a noted contemporary Irish poet and academic. Born in Cork, Ireland, he moved to Manchester, England when he was...
Joseph O'Connor

Joseph O'Connor

male, 46 years old
Irish, WhitbreadPrize, Cowboys and Indians, the economist, Joseph Victor O'Connor, Star of the Sea
Joseph Victor O'Connor is an Irish novelist and brother of singer Sinéad O'Connor. His novel "Cowboys and Indians" (1991) was on the shortlist for t...
Alasdair Gray

Alasdair Gray

male, 74 years old
Writer-illustrator, Literary realism, painter, fantasy, Whitbread Award Winner, illustration…WhitbreadPrize, Guardian Fiction Prize
Alasdair Gray (born December 28, 1934) is a Scottish writer and artist. His most acclaimed work is his first novel "Lanark", published in 1981 and...

Paul Farley

male
Whitbread Poetry Award., The Ice Age, Tramp in Flames, Distant Voices, Still Lives, Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, Poetry Book Society's Next Generation…Forward Poetry Prize, Whitbread Poetry Award, Forward Prize, WhitbreadPrize
Paul Farley is an award-winning English poet. He was born in Liverpool, studied painting at the Chelsea School of Art, and has lived in London,...

Geoff Nicholson

male, 56 years old
novelist, cambridge university, Travel writer, English, From sheffield, University of Essex…WhitbreadPrize
Geoff Nicholson is a British novelist and non-fiction writer. He was born in Sheffield on 4 March 1953 and was educated at the Universities of...
Barbara Trapido

Barbara Trapido

female, 68 years old
novelist, 2003 Whitbread Awards, shortlisted, WhitbreadPrize, From Cape Town, durban
Barbara Trapido, born 1941, is a British novelist. Born in Cape Town and grew up in Durban, South Africa, Trapido emigrated to the United Kingdom...
Anthony Holden

Anthony Holden

male, 62 years old
Harry Potter, WhitbreadPrize, British Royal Family, currently, University of Oxford, oundle school
Anthony Holden (born 22 May 1947) is a British journalist, broadcaster and writer, particularly known as a biographer of the British Royal family...
Sheenagh Pugh

Sheenagh Pugh

female, 59 years old
poet, Wales Book of the Year, Academic of the University of Glamorgan, Selected Poems, Poems on the Underground, The Movement of Bodies…T S Eliot Prize, WhitbreadPrize
Sheenagh Pugh (born 1950 in Birmingham) is a British poet, novelist and translator who writes in the English language. Sheenagh Pugh studied...

Paul Murray

male, 34 years old
Chemist, An Evening of Long Goodbyes, comic novel, WhitbreadPrize, Trinity College, Dublin, Gimlet
Paul Murray (born 1975) is an Irish novelist. Murray studied English literature at Trinity College, Dublin. He has a Masters degree in creative...