Judith Kerr OBE
Judith is an author and illustrator who fled from Nazi Germany as a child and went on to publish award-winning autobiographical novels for children about her experiences.
1936
1947
Marina Lewycka
Marina is an author whose first book, A short history of tractors in Ukrainian, sold over a million copies worldwide.
1956
George Szirtes
George Szirtes is a painter-turned-poet originally from Hungary who writes about England and Englishness as well as his Hungarian origins in his poetry and translation work.
1964
Gillian Slovo
Writing, for Gillian Slovo, is best described as a process of interrogation into what happens when individual lives are caught up in political events – her latter works explore her experience as the daughter of anti-apartheid activists in South Africa.
1986
Nadifa Mohamed
Nadifa is a Somali-born novelist whose books have been shortlisted for prestigious awards including the Guardian First Book Award.
1992
Hamid Ismailov
Hamid is a poet and author from Uzbekistan, and Writer in Residence at the BBC’s World Service.
2012
al-Saddiq al-Raddi
al-Saddiq is one of the leading African poets writing in Arabic. He writes about his native Sudan.
