Australian critic, journalist, broadcaster and writer who lived and worked in the United Kingdom from 1962 until his death in 2019. He began his career specialising in literary criticism before becoming television critic for The Observer in 1972, where he made his name for his wry, deadpan humour
American literary and social critic and a prominent figure of the Democratic Socialists of America.
American-British author
British mathematician and author.
British writer of poems, short stories, novels and plays
English author, medievalist scholar and provost of King’s College, Cambridge , and of Eton College . He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge .
James’s work as a medievalist and scholar is still highly regarded, but he is best remembered for his ghost stories, which some consider among the best in the genre
American memoirist, writer, lecturer, and educator
American novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and sportsman
Norwegian writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. Hamsun’s work spans more than 70 years and shows variation with regard to consciousness, subject, perspective and environment
American science fiction author best known for the 1965 novel Dune and its five sequels
