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  • Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, OBE, FRSA, FRSL (born 3 August 1920), commonly known as P. D. James, is an English crime writer and Conservative life peer in the House of Lords, most famous for a series of detective novels starring policeman and poet Adam Dalgliesh. She is also the author of Children of Men, which was the basis of the feature film of the same name, directed by Alfonso Cuarón. Here she is photographed at her home in London. P.D.James is looking through the book "The Trial of Buck Ruxton" from her collection of real life crime stories.
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  • Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, OBE, FRSA, FRSL (born 3 August 1920), commonly known as P. D. James, is an English crime writer and Conservative life peer in the House of Lords, most famous for a series of detective novels starring policeman and poet Adam Dalgliesh. She is also the author of Children of Men, which was the basis of the feature film of the same name, directed by Alfonso Cuarón. Here she is photographed at her home in London.
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  • Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, OBE, FRSA, FRSL (born 3 August 1920), commonly known as P. D. James, is an English crime writer and Conservative life peer in the House of Lords, most famous for a series of detective novels starring policeman and poet Adam Dalgliesh. She is also the author of Children of Men, which was the basis of the feature film of the same name, directed by Alfonso Cuarón. Here she is photographed at her home in London. P.D. James in her study with her life time working partner Joyce McLennan.
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  • Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, OBE, FRSA, FRSL (born 3 August 1920), commonly known as P. D. James, is an English crime writer and Conservative life peer in the House of Lords, most famous for a series of detective novels starring policeman and poet Adam Dalgliesh. She is also the author of Children of Men, which was the basis of the feature film of the same name, directed by Alfonso Cuarón. Here she is photographed at her home in London. P.D. James in her study with her life time working partner Joyce McLennan.
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  • Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, OBE, FRSA, FRSL (born 3 August 1920), commonly known as P. D. James, is an English crime writer and Conservative life peer in the House of Lords, most famous for a series of detective novels starring policeman and poet Adam Dalgliesh. She is also the author of Children of Men, which was the basis of the feature film of the same name, directed by Alfonso Cuarón. Here she is photographed at her home in London.
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  • Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, OBE, FRSA, FRSL (born 3 August 1920), commonly known as P. D. James, is an English crime writer and Conservative life peer in the House of Lords, most famous for a series of detective novels starring policeman and poet Adam Dalgliesh. She is also the author of Children of Men, which was the basis of the feature film of the same name, directed by Alfonso Cuarón. Here she is photographed at her home in London.
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  • Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, OBE, FRSA, FRSL (born 3 August 1920), commonly known as P. D. James, is an English crime writer and Conservative life peer in the House of Lords, most famous for a series of detective novels starring policeman and poet Adam Dalgliesh. She is also the author of Children of Men, which was the basis of the feature film of the same name, directed by Alfonso Cuarón. Here she is photographed at her home in London.
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  • Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, OBE, FRSA, FRSL (born 3 August 1920), commonly known as P. D. James, is an English crime writer and Conservative life peer in the House of Lords, most famous for a series of detective novels starring policeman and poet Adam Dalgliesh. She is also the author of Children of Men, which was the basis of the feature film of the same name, directed by Alfonso Cuarón. Here she is photographed at her home in London.
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  • Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, OBE, FRSA, FRSL (born 3 August 1920), commonly known as P. D. James, is an English crime writer and Conservative life peer in the House of Lords, most famous for a series of detective novels starring policeman and poet Adam Dalgliesh. She is also the author of Children of Men, which was the basis of the feature film of the same name, directed by Alfonso Cuarón. Here she is photographed at her home in London.
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  • A portrait of Science-fiction writer Arthur C Clarke in the summer of 1992, at his home in Minehead, England. Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS 1917– 2008 was a British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host. He is perhaps most famous for being co-writer of the screenplay for the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, widely considered to be one of the most influential films of all time.
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  • A portrait of Science-fiction writer Arthur C Clarke in the summer of 1992, at his home in Minehead, England. Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS 1917– 2008 was a British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host. He is perhaps most famous for being co-writer of the screenplay for the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, widely considered to be one of the most influential films of all time.
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  • British writer Tibor Fischer in London. Tibor Fischer (born 15 November 1959 in Stockport, England) is a British novelist and short story writer. In 1993 he was selected by the influential literary magazine Granta as one of the 20 best young British writers.
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  • British writer Tibor Fischer in London. Tibor Fischer (born 15 November 1959 in Stockport, England) is a British novelist and short story writer. In 1993 he was selected by the influential literary magazine Granta as one of the 20 best young British writers.
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  • British writer Iain Banks in London. Iain Banks (born on 16 February 1954 in Dunfermline, Fife) is a Scottish writer. He writes mainstream fiction under the name Iain Banks, and science fiction as Iain M. Banks, including the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies. In 2008, The Times named Banks in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
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  • British writer Helen Simpson in London. Helen Simpson is an English novelist and short story writer. She was born in 1959 in Bristol, in the West of England, and went to a girls' school. She worked at Vogue for five years before her success in writing short stories meant she could afford to leave and concentrate full-time on her writing. Her first collection, Four Bare Legs in a Bed and Other Stories, won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award while her book Hey Yeah Right Get A Life, a series of interlinked stories, won the Hawthornden Prize.
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  • British writer Colin Thubron in London. Colin Gerald Dryden Thubron, CBE (born 14 June 1939) is a British travel writer and novelist. In 2008, The Times ranked him 45th on their list of the 50 greatest postwar British writers. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages. Thubron was appointed a CBE in the 2007. He is a Fellow and, as of 2010, President of the Royal Society of Literature.
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  • British writer Colin Thubron in London. Colin Gerald Dryden Thubron, CBE (born 14 June 1939) is a British travel writer and novelist. In 2008, The Times ranked him 45th on their list of the 50 greatest postwar British writers. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages. Thubron was appointed a CBE in the 2007. He is a Fellow and, as of 2010, President of the Royal Society of Literature.
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  • British writer Tibor Fischer in London. Tibor Fischer (born 15 November 1959 in Stockport, England) is a British novelist and short story writer. In 1993 he was selected by the influential literary magazine Granta as one of the 20 best young British writers.
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  • British writer Norman Lewis in London. Norman Lewis (28 June 1908-22 July 2003) was a prolific British writer best known for his travel writing.
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  • A portrait of local Hackney writer and campaigner Jane McIntyre, seen in the rear of the Pacific Social Club, a café on Clarence Road. Jane is an award-winning travel writer and member of the British Guild of Travel Writers (http://www.bgtw.org/jane-egginton.html) who has written about destinations around the world for book publishers, online guides and newspapers such as the Guardian and the Sunday Times. She is also partly responsible for raising funds to help Siva's convenience store, a community shop that was looted on Monday 8th August, at the height of Britain’s rioting of 2011. So far, more than £16,000 has been raised by his customers and friends like Jane.  She blogs about living in London’s poorest and largest borough at http://hackneyhome.blogspot.com
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  • A portrait of local Hackney writer and campaigner Jane McIntyre, seen in the rear of the Pacific Social Club, a café on Clarence Road. Jane is an award-winning travel writer and member of the British Guild of Travel Writers (http://www.bgtw.org/jane-egginton.html) who has written about destinations around the world for book publishers, online guides and newspapers such as the Guardian and the Sunday Times. She is also partly responsible for raising funds to help Siva's convenience store, a community shop that was looted on Monday 8th August, at the height of Britain’s rioting of 2011. So far, more than £16,000 has been raised by his customers and friends like Jane.  She blogs about living in London’s poorest and largest borough at http://hackneyhome.blogspot.com
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  • Reknown author Eduardo Galeano in a Montevideo café, Uruguay.  (born September 3, 1940) is a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist. His most well known works are Memoria del fuego (Memory of Fire, 1986) and Las venas abiertas de América Latina (Open Veins of Latin America, 1971) which have since been translated into twenty languages and transcend orthodox genres: combining fiction, journalism, political analysis, and history. The author himself has denied that he is a historian saying, "I'm a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America above all and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia."
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  • British writer Lawrence Norfolk in London. Lawrence Norfolk (born 1963) is a British novelist known for historical works with complex plots and intricate detail. His novels also feature an unusually large vocabulary. Though born in London, Norfolk lived in Iraq until 1967 and then in the West Country of England. He read English at King's College London and graduated in 1986. He worked briefly as a teacher and later as a freelance writer for reference-book publishers.
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  • British writer Norman Lewis in London. Norman Lewis (28 June 1908-22 July 2003) was a prolific British writer best known for his travel writing.
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  • British writer Jeanette Winterson in London. Jeanette Winterson, OBE (born 27 August 1959) is a British writer. Winterson was born in Manchester and adopted by Constance and John William Winterson on 21 January 1960. She grew up in Accrington, Lancashire, and was raised in the Elim Pentecostal Church. Intending to become a Pentecostal Christian missionary, she began evangelising and writing sermons at age six
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  • British writer Lawrence Norfolk in London. Lawrence Norfolk (born 1963) is a British novelist known for historical works with complex plots and intricate detail. His novels also feature an unusually large vocabulary. Though born in London, Norfolk lived in Iraq until 1967 and then in the West Country of England. He read English at King's College London and graduated in 1986. He worked briefly as a teacher and later as a freelance writer for reference-book publishers.
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  • British writer Caryl Phillips in London. Caryl Phillips (born 13 March 1958) is a Kittian-British novelist, playwright and essayist. Best known for his novels (for which he has won multiple awards), Phillips is often described as a Black Atlantic writer, since much of his fictional output is defined by its interest in, and searching exploration of, the experiences of peoples of the African diaspora in England, the Caribbean and the United States.
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  • British writer Candida McWilliam in London. Candia Frances Juliet McWilliam (born 1 July 1955) is a Scottish author. Her father was the architectural writer and academic Colin McWilliam.
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  • British writer Alan Hollinghurst in London. Alan J. Hollinghurst (born 26 May 1954) is a British novelist, poet, short story writer and translator. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 1989 Somerset Maugham Award, the 1994 James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the 2004 Booker Prize.
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  • British writer Alan Hollinghurst in London. Alan J. Hollinghurst (born 26 May 1954) is a British novelist, poet, short story writer and translator. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 1989 Somerset Maugham Award, the 1994 James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the 2004 Booker Prize.
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  • British writer A. L. Kennedy in London. Alison Louise Kennedy (born 22 October 1965 in Dundee) is a Scottish writer of novels, short stories and non-fiction. She is known for a characteristically dark tone, a blending of realism and fantasy, and for her serious approach to her work. She contributes columns and reviews to UK and European newspapers including the fictional diary of her pet parrot named Charlie.
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  • A portrait of English author/writer Ian Sinclair in his native Hackney, the location for many of his dystopian views on East London and Britain. Sinclair (1943) is a British writer and filmmaker and much of his work is rooted in London, most recently within the influences of psychogeography. His books deal with the evials of development and their fracturing of social communities – in particular, of his own home borough of Hackney and the effects from the 2012 Olympics project. His books include ‘London Orbital’ about the M25 motorway, ‘Hackney: That Rose-red Empire’ and ‘Ghost Milk’. Behind him is the algae-green waters of the Regents Canal, fed by the effluent - he says - of the Olympic site.
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  • Street art portrait of local and much loved writer and poet Benjamin Zephaniah on 31st December 2020 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah is a British writer, dub poet and Rastafarian. He was included in The Times list of Britains top 50 post-war writers in 2008.
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  • The writer, essayist and philosopher Alain de Botton stands in front of a mural of a Soyuz rocket of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) taking off from a mobile gantry at the European Space Agency (ESA). De Botton is in French Guiana researching his book 'The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work' published in April 2009. The illustration celebrates a future Russian mission if construction of their new facilities continues with the help of the French and other space agencies. Cosmonauts and technicians will ooccupy a purpose-built town near ESA's rocket complex. Alain de Botton (born Zurich, 1969) now lives in London. His best-selling books refer both to his own experiences and ideas- and those of artists, philosophers and thinkers. It's a style of writing that has been termed a 'philosophy of everyday life.'
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  • British writer Kazuo Ishiguro in London. Kazuo Ishiguro OBE (born 8 November 1954) is a Japanese-born British novelist. He was born in Nagasaki, Japan, and his family moved to England in 1960 when he was 5 years old. Ishiguro is one of the most celebrated contemporary fiction authors in the English-speaking world, having received four Man Booker Prize nominations, and winning the 1989 for his novel The Remains of the Day. In 2008, The Times ranked Ishiguro 32nd on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
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  • British writer Angela Carter in London. Angela Carter (7 May 1940 - 16 February 1992) was an English novelist and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picaresque works. In 2008, The Times ranked Carter tenth in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
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  • British writer Angela Carter in London. Angela Carter (7 May 1940 - 16 February 1992) was an English novelist and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picaresque works. In 2008, The Times ranked Carter tenth in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
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  • The writer, essayist and philosopher Alain de Botton leans against the wheel of a traditional dhoni boat in the Indian Ocean. De Botton is in the Maldives researching his book 'The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work' about the world of Work, published in April 2009. Here he accompanies a fishing boat crew who use hand and line methods to land yellow fin tuna for export to the EU and in particular, Sainsbury's supermarket. Barefoot on the roof of the wheelhouse and with the top of his pen in mouth, he looks thoughfully into the distance to think of more great ideas for his best-selling book. Alain de Botton (born Zurich, 1969) now lives in London. His best-selling books refer both to his own experiences and ideas- and those of artists, philosophers and thinkers. It's a style of writing that has been termed a 'philosophy of everyday life.'
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  • British writer Kazuo Ishiguro in London. Kazuo Ishiguro OBE (born 8 November 1954) is a Japanese-born British novelist. He was born in Nagasaki, Japan, and his family moved to England in 1960 when he was 5 years old. Ishiguro is one of the most celebrated contemporary fiction authors in the English-speaking world, having received four Man Booker Prize nominations, and winning the 1989 for his novel The Remains of the Day. In 2008, The Times ranked Ishiguro 32nd on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
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  • British writer Angela Carter in London. Angela Carter (7 May 1940 - 16 February 1992) was an English novelist and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picaresque works. In 2008, The Times ranked Carter tenth in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
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  • British writer Angela Carter in London. Angela Carter (7 May 1940 - 16 February 1992) was an English novelist and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picaresque works. In 2008, The Times ranked Carter tenth in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
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  • A portrait of international award-winning Greek-born writer of fiction, Panos Karnezis in London where he lives and writes. Sitting in a favourite café near Angel, Islington, Panos looks relaxed and still young. He is the author of The Maze and is a developing writer of prize-winning fiction, shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel for the acclaimed Little Infamies. Panos Karnezis was born in Greece in 1967 and came to England in 1992. He studied engineering and worked in industry, then studied for an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. His first book, Little Infamies (2002) is a collection of connected short stories set in one nameless Greek village, and his second book, The Maze (2004), is a novel set in Anatolia in 1922. It was shortlisted for the 2004 Whitbread First Novel Award. His latest novel is The Convent (2010).
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  • British writer Philip Kerr in London. Philip Kerr (born 22 February 1956) is a British author of both adult fiction and non-fiction, most notably the Bernie Gunther series of thrillers set during the Weimar Republic, World War II and the Cold War. He has also written children's books under the name P.B. Kerr, including the Children of the Lamp series.
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  • British writer John Simpson in London. John Cody Fidler-Simpson CBE (born 9 August 1944) is an English foreign correspondent. He is world affairs editor of BBC News. He has spent all his working life at the BBC. He has reported from more than 120 countries, including thirty war zones, and has interviewed many world leaders.
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  • The rocky memorial to Czech writer Julius Zeyer in Letna Park Letenske Sady, on 18th March, 2018, in Prague, the Czech Republic. Julius Zeyer 1841 –1901 was a Czech prose writer, poet, and playwright whose prose and poems are restless, nostalgic, mystical, depressive, and usually end tragically. He often blended foreign legends with national themes particular to Czech society and history.
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  • A portrait of Indian writer, Patwant Singh in the summer of 1994 while at an address in London, England. Singh 1925 - 2009 was one of Indias leading writers on international and cultural affairs and the environment. His articles appeared in The New York Times, Canadas Globe and Mail, the UKs Independent, and elsewhere. He is author of The Sikhs John Murray, 1999 and Knopf, 2000.
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  • Greek-born writer of foward-fiction, Panos Karnezis in London where he lives and writes. He sits reading his newspaper at Earls Court Underground station as other commuters are around his oblivious to this up and coming literary star. Author of Little Infamies (2002), The Maze (2004) and the Convent (2010) he is a developing writer of prize-winning fiction, shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel for the acclaimed Little Infamies. Panos Karnezis was born in Greece in 1967 and came to England in 1992. He studied engineering and worked in industry, then studied for an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.
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  • A portrait of international award-winning Greek-born writer of fiction, Panos Karnezis in London where he lives and writes. Sitting in a favourite café near Angel, Islington, Panos looks relaxed and still young. He is the author of The Maze and is a developing writer of prize-winning fiction, shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel for the acclaimed Little Infamies. Panos Karnezis was born in Greece in 1967 and came to England in 1992. He studied engineering and worked in industry, then studied for an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. His first book, Little Infamies (2002) is a collection of connected short stories set in one nameless Greek village, and his second book, The Maze (2004), is a novel set in Anatolia in 1922. It was shortlisted for the 2004 Whitbread First Novel Award. His latest novel is The Convent (2010).
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  • Greek-born writer of foward-fiction, Panos Karnezis in London where he lives and writes. Here, he is a west London cemetery, relaxing in long grass amid Victorian headstones. The light is back-lighting this seemingly rural landscape. Author of Little Infamies (2002), The Maze (2004) and the Convent (2010) he is a developing writer of prize-winning fiction, shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel for the acclaimed Little Infamies. Panos Karnezis was born in Greece in 1967 and came to England in 1992. He studied engineering and worked in industry, then studied for an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.
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  • Greek-born writer of foward-fiction, Panos Karnezis in London where he lives and writes stands by a wall covered in urban graffiti with arms folded and a slightly mischevious look i his dark eyes. Author of Little Infamies (2002), The Maze (2004) and the Convent (2010) he is a developing writer of prize-winning fiction, shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel for the acclaimed Little Infamies. Panos Karnezis was born in Greece in 1967 and came to England in 1992. He studied engineering and worked in industry, then studied for an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.
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  • Greek-born writer of foward-fiction, Panos Karnezis in London where he lives and writes. Here he relaxes in a north London cafe to drink coffee and read his newspaper in a somewhat calm setting where he can remain anonymous. Although, he is a largely unknown literary figure, Karnezis is already the author of Little Infamies (2002), The Maze (2004) and the Convent (2010) he is a developing writer of prize-winning fiction, shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel for the acclaimed Little Infamies. Panos Karnezis was born in Greece in 1967 and came to England in 1992. He studied engineering and worked in industry, then studied for an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.
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  • British writer William Boyd in London. William Boyd, CBE (born 7 March 1952) is a British novelist and screenwriter resident in London.
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  • British writer Will Self in London. William Woodard "Will" Self (born 26 September 1961) is an English author, journalist and television personality.
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  • British writer Will Self in London. William Woodard "Will" Self (born 26 September 1961) is an English author, journalist and television personality.
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  • British writer Louis de Bernières in London. Louis de Bernières (born 8 December 1954) is a British novelist most famous for his fourth novel, Captain Corelli's Mandolin. In 1993 de Bernières was selected as one of the "20 Best of Young British Novelists", part of a promotion in Granta magazine.
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  • British writer Nicholas Shakespeare in London. Nicholas William Richmond Shakespeare (born 3 March 1957 in Worcester, England) is a British novelist and biographer.
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  • British writer Michael Ignatieff  in London. Michael Grant Ignatieff (born May 12, 1947) is a Canadian author, academic and former politician. He was the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and Leader of the Official Opposition from 2008 until 2011.
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  • British writer Ian Jack in London. Ian Jack (born 7 February 1945) is a Scottish journalist who was the editor of the literary magazine Granta from 1995 to 2007. Granta 98 "The Deep End" was the 48th issue which he edited and the last.
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  • British writer Esther Freud in London. Esther Freud (born 2 May 1963) is a British novelist. Born in London, Freud is the daughter of painter Lucian Freud and Bernadine Coverley and is a great-granddaughter of Sigmund Freud. She travelled extensively with her mother as a child, and returned to London at the age of sixteen to train as an actress at The Drama Centre.
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  • British writer Ben Okri in London. Ben Okri OBE (born 15 March 1959) is a Nigerian poet and novelist. Okri is considered one of the foremost African authors in the post-modern and post-colonial traditions.
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  • British writer Ben Okri in London. Ben Okri OBE (born 15 March 1959) is a Nigerian poet and novelist. Okri is considered one of the foremost African authors in the post-modern and post-colonial traditions.
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  • British writer Ann Bilson in London.
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  • British writer Adam Mars-Jones in London. Adam Mars-Jones (born 26 October 1954) is a British novelist and critic. Mars-Jones was born in London, to parents William Mars-Jones, the Welsh High Court judge and President of the London Welsh Trust, and Sheila (née Cobon).[1][2] Mars-Jones studied at Westminster School, and read Classics at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He is a regular contributor to The Guardian, The Observer, The Times Literary Supplement, and BBC Television's Newsnight Review.
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  • British writer Adam Lively in London. Adam Lively (born 20 January 1961) is a British novelist. He was born in Swansea and educated in England and America. His debut novel Blue Fruit was published in 1988. In 1993, he was included in the Granta Best of Young British Novelists list.
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  • British writer Adam Lively in London. Adam Lively (born 20 January 1961) is a British novelist. He was born in Swansea and educated in England and America. His debut novel Blue Fruit was published in 1988. In 1993, he was included in the Granta Best of Young British Novelists list.
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  • The teacher and writer Ram Dass, pictured at his home in Maui on 3rd February 2013. Ram Dass inspired many people around the world with his writings and speeches on yoga and spirituality, died at home in Maui on 22nd December 2019.
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  • The teacher and writer Ram Dass, pictured at his home in Maui on 3rd February 2013. Ram Dass inspired many people around the world with his writings and speeches on yoga and spirituality, died at home in Maui on 22nd December 2019.
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  • Swedish writer Håkan Nesser photographed in London.
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  • Swedish writer Håkan Nesser photographed in London. Nesser in the Scarsdale Tavern with his dog Norton.
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  • Surrounded by books is British Roman Catholic journalist, historian, speechwriter and author, Paul Johnson on 21st February 1992 in London England. Paul Bede Johnson b1928 is an English journalist, historian, speechwriter and author. He was educated at the Jesuit independent school Stonyhurst College, and at Magdalen College, Oxford. Johnson first came to prominence in the 1950s as a journalist writing for, and later editing, the New Statesman magazine. A prolific writer, he has written over 40 books and contributed to numerous magazines and newspapers. While associated with the left in his early career, he is now a conservative popular historian.
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  • German novelist and Stern Magazine news featiure writer Markus Gotting (with an umlaut over the O but also spelled as Goetting) whilst on assignment during the London riots of August 2011.
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  • The noted barfly, low-life and writer Jeffrey Bernard (1932 - 1997) is seen holding a drink in his favourite position at the Coach and Horse pub in Greek Street, London’s Soho. Around him are his drinking buddies and even in the background, the celebrated landlord of this bohemian drinking hole, Norman Balon known as London’s rudest landlord. The interior of the pub was recreated on stage for the Keith Waterhouse ‘s biographical play about Bernard's life “Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell”. The play was successful and Balon's memoirs followed entitled You're Barred, You Bastards (ISBN 0283997621). Barnard was a British journalist, best known for his weekly column "Low Life" in the Spectator magazine, but also notorious for a feckless and chaotic career and life of alcohol abuse.
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  • While working on his book, "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009), the writer Alain de Botton's sits in an airline seat at the British Airways' corporate headquarters at Waterside at Harmondsworth near Heathrow Airport.
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  • A portrait of eccentric English travel writer, Arthur Eperon in the summer of 1989, in Horsmonden, England. Eperon wrote books and travel articles, introducing hundreds of thousands of British readers to a hidden France of scenic and gastronomic delights, burgeoning their need for informed and entertaining guidance on “abroad”.
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  • Writer Alison (A L) Kennedy leans against the old Victorian windows of Glasgow's Botanical gardens, in Scotland. Looking serious and rather troubled, she is wearing a worn leather jacket and a tartan scarf, she looks towards the ground during her portrait session for Stern Magazine. A L Kennedy is one of Britain's most respected novelists, dramatist, newspaper columnists and more recently, stand-up comedian after her 2007 performances at the Edinburgh festival. Her books include: Paradise; Indelible Acts; On Bullfighting; Everything You Need; Original Bliss; So I Am Glad; Looking for the Possible Dance;  Night Geometry & the Garscadden Trains; Now That You're back and Life & Death of Colonel Blimp. Born in Dundee on 22nd October 1965, she was educated at Dundee High School 1970 - 1983 & Warwick University 1983 - 86 (BA Hons in Theatre Studies & Drama)
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  • Writer Alison (A L) Kennedy leans against the old Victorian windows of Glasgow's Botanical gardens, in Scotland. Looking serious and rather troubled, she is wearing a worn leather jacket and a tartan scarf, she looks towards the ground during her portrait session for Stern Magazine. A L Kennedy is one of Britain's most respected novelists, dramatist, newspaper columnists and more recently, stand-up comedian after her 2007 performances at the Edinburgh festival. Her books include: Paradise; Indelible Acts; On Bullfighting; Everything You Need; Original Bliss; So I Am Glad; Looking for the Possible Dance;  Night Geometry & the Garscadden Trains; Now That You're back and Life & Death of Colonel Blimp. Born in Dundee on 22nd October 1965, she was educated at Dundee High School 1970 - 1983 & Warwick University 1983 - 86 (BA Hons in Theatre Studies & Drama)
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  • The teacher and writer Ram Dass, pictured at his home in Maui on 3rd February 2013. Ram Dass inspired many people around the world with his writings and speeches on yoga and spirituality, died at home in Maui on 22nd December 2019.
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  • The teacher and writer Ram Dass, pictured at his home in Maui on 3rd February 2013. Ram Dass inspired many people around the world with his writings and speeches on yoga and spirituality, died at home in Maui on 22nd December 2019.
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  • The teacher and writer Ram Dass, pictured at his home in Maui on 3rd February 2013. Ram Dass inspired many people around the world with his writings and speeches on yoga and spirituality, died at home in Maui on 22nd December 2019.
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  • The teacher and writer Ram Dass, pictured at his home in Maui on 3rd February 2013. Ram Dass inspired many people around the world with his writings and speeches on yoga and spirituality, died at home in Maui on 22nd December 2019.
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  • Swedish writer Håkan Nesser photographed in London.
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  • Swedish writer Håkan Nesser photographed in London. Nesser in Holland Park with his dog Norton.
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  • Swedish writer Håkan Nesser photographed in London. Nesser in the Scarsdale Tavern with his dog Norton.
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  • Swedish writer Håkan Nesser photographed in London. Nesser in the Scarsdale Tavern with his dog Norton.
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  • Simon Calder, travel writer for the Independant Newspaper.
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  • Grave of Douglas Adams (1952-2001), writer of Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy in Highgate Cemetry, London, which appears to have become something of a pilgrimage or shrine for fans.<br />
People used to stick pens in the ground, but they've now added a small pot that people can put the pens in.
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  • Balloons stand for 10,000 before writer and photographer Quintin Lake walks up the steps of St. Paul's Cathedral to greet his family after his epic 5-year, 10.000km walk around the entire coastline of the UK for his The Perimeter project, on 15th September 2020, in London, England.
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  • Author Saira Shah at her home in London. Saira Shah is an award-winning documentary film maker and writer,  whose work has drawn attention to the plight of women and children in her ancestral homeland of Afghanistan, as well as to voiceless minorities the world over. She produces, writes and narrates current affairs films.
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  • Author Saira Shah at her home in London. Saira Shah is an award-winning documentary film maker and writer,  whose work has drawn attention to the plight of women and children in her ancestral homeland of Afghanistan, as well as to voiceless minorities the world over. She produces, writes and narrates current affairs films.
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  • Sally Gardner is an English children's writer and illustrator. She lives in London. Her award-winning book, I, Coriander, is set in 17th-century London. It tells the story of Coriander, the unhappy daughter of a silk merchant. Sally Gardner has severe dyslexia, and didn't learn to read until she was 14. But she did very well in art college and then in drama college, and worked as a theatre designer before turning to illustration and writing.
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  • Anthony Horowitz (born 5 April 1956) is an English novelist and screenwriter, photographed here in his North London home. He has written many children's novels, including The Power of Five, Alex Rider and The Diamond Brothers series and has written over fifty books. He has also written extensively for television, adapting many Hercule Poirot novels for the ITV series. He is the creator and writer of the ITV series Foyle's War, Midsomer Murders and Collision.
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  • Anthony Horowitz (born 5 April 1956) is an English novelist and screenwriter, photographed here in his North London home. He has written many children's novels, including The Power of Five, Alex Rider and The Diamond Brothers series and has written over fifty books. He has also written extensively for television, adapting many Hercule Poirot novels for the ITV series. He is the creator and writer of the ITV series Foyle's War, Midsomer Murders and Collision.
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  • London, UK. Thursday 17th January 2013. Writer and broadcaster William Shawcross in conversation with Kofi Annan once Secretary General of the United Nations (UN) speaking at Cadogan Hall to promote his book: Interventions: A Life in War and Peace. This event was put on by The Spectator.
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  • George Monbiot is arrested and taken away by police after a directive from the police not to gather, Extinction Rebellion took over Whitehall in a sit down protest where large numbers were arrested on 16th October 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. George Joshua Richard Monbiot is a British writer known for his environmental and political activism. Extinction Rebellion is a climate change group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests. These protests are highlighting that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet.
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  • George Monbiot is arrested and taken away by police after a directive from the police not to gather, Extinction Rebellion took over Whitehall in a sit down protest where large numbers were arrested on 16th October 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. George Joshua Richard Monbiot is a British writer known for his environmental and political activism. Extinction Rebellion is a climate change group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests. These protests are highlighting that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet.
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  • George Monbiot is arrested and taken away by police after a directive from the police not to gather, Extinction Rebellion took over Whitehall in a sit down protest where large numbers were arrested on 16th October 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom. George Joshua Richard Monbiot is a British writer known for his environmental and political activism. Extinction Rebellion is a climate change group started in 2018 and has gained a huge following of people committed to peaceful protests. These protests are highlighting that the government is not doing enough to avoid catastrophic climate change and to demand the government take radical action to save the planet.
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  • UK - London - Ben Fogle, an English television presenter, adventurer and writer at home in London, UK.<br />
His achievements include racing 160 miles across the Sahara desert in the notorious Marathon Des Sables. He has rowed the Atlantic Ocean in 49 days and crossed Antarctica in a foot race to the South Pole. He has presented numerous programme’s including BBC’s Animal Park, Wild In Africa, Countryfile, Crufts, One Man and His Dog and Extreme Dreams. He writes regularly for the Sunday Telegraph and the Independent and has written four bestselling books. He is an ambassador for WWF, Medcins Sans Frontier and Tusk, a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the President of the Campaign for National Park’s.
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  • UK - London - Ben Fogle, an English television presenter, adventurer and writer at home in London, UK.<br />
His achievements include racing 160 miles across the Sahara desert in the notorious Marathon Des Sables. He has rowed the Atlantic Ocean in 49 days and crossed Antarctica in a foot race to the South Pole. He has presented numerous programme’s including BBC’s Animal Park, Wild In Africa, Countryfile, Crufts, One Man and His Dog and Extreme Dreams. He writes regularly for the Sunday Telegraph and the Independent and has written four bestselling books. He is an ambassador for WWF, Medcins Sans Frontier and Tusk, a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the President of the Campaign for National Park’s.
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  • UK - London - Ben Fogle, an English television presenter, adventurer and writer at home in London, UK.<br />
His achievements include racing 160 miles across the Sahara desert in the notorious Marathon Des Sables. He has rowed the Atlantic Ocean in 49 days and crossed Antarctica in a foot race to the South Pole. He has presented numerous programme’s including BBC’s Animal Park, Wild In Africa, Countryfile, Crufts, One Man and His Dog and Extreme Dreams. He writes regularly for the Sunday Telegraph and the Independent and has written four bestselling books. He is an ambassador for WWF, Medcins Sans Frontier and Tusk, a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the President of the Campaign for National Park’s.
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  • UK - London - Ben Fogle, an English television presenter, adventurer and writer at home in London, UK.<br />
His achievements include racing 160 miles across the Sahara desert in the notorious Marathon Des Sables. He has rowed the Atlantic Ocean in 49 days and crossed Antarctica in a foot race to the South Pole. He has presented numerous programme’s including BBC’s Animal Park, Wild In Africa, Countryfile, Crufts, One Man and His Dog and Extreme Dreams. He writes regularly for the Sunday Telegraph and the Independent and has written four bestselling books. He is an ambassador for WWF, Medcins Sans Frontier and Tusk, a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the President of the Campaign for National Park’s.
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