Alasdair Gray
writer and painter

Claire Tomalin

Colm Toibin

Elizabeth Jennings (1926-2001)

MIan McEwan (1948-)

Jim Crace Since 1974, he has written seven novels, which have been translated into over 20 languages and have won a number of literary awards, including the National Book Critics Award for Fiction.

Louis de Berniers His novel "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" won the Commonwealth Writers Prize, Best Book 1995. Later, it becomes a major motion picture.

Mark Haddon Born in North Hampton in 1962

Medbh McGuckian Poet

Michael Frayn

Roald Dahl