Author collection
Our selection of author archive interviews and readings from across the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ.
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Anne Enright
Best known for her novel The Gathering, which won the Man Booker prize in 2007
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Anne Tyler
After two nominations, Tyler won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel Breathing Lessons
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Purple Hibiscus marked the arrival of a new literary talent
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Colm Toibin
One of Ireland's greatest contemporary writers, with a career spanning 25 years
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Frank Cottrell Boyce
His contribution to British children’s fiction has been widely celebrated
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Helen Dunmore
Award-winning author of novels for adults and children, and several poetry collections.
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Jung Chang
Her groundbreaking memoir Wild Swans saw Jung Chang rise to international fame.
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Kazuo Ishiguro
Nobel Prize-winner Ishiguro became a household name with his novel The Remains of the Day.
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Laurie Lee
The poet, journalist and author famous for Cider with Rosie and his autobiographical works
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Maya Angelou
Role model and activist who celebrated the experience of being black in the United States
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PD James
The English crime novelist who sold millions of detective books around the world
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Philip Roth: In his own words
One of America’s greatest writers, Roth won almost every major literary prize.
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Robert Macfarlane
His books have put him at the forefront of the New Nature genre of writing.
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Rose Tremain
Her first book Sadler’s Birthday allowed her to leave her publishing job to be an author
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Sarah Hall
Sarah Hall has gained a reputation as one of British writing’s great wild voices
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Sebastian Faulks
The acclaimed novelist best known for his powerful WW1 novel Birdsong
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Toni Morrison
Few writers have done more to bring the African-American experience into the mainstream
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William Trevor
Celebrated novelist, short story writer and elder statesman of Irish literature
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Zadie Smith
Smith was still a student when her first manuscript sparked a publishers' bidding war
