Authors
Paul Laverty
Paul Laverty has written the screenplays for several full length feature films directed by Ken Loach: including Sweet Sixteen (2002) – winner of Best Original Screenplay at Cannes, The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) – winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes and It’s A Free World (2007) – winner of Best Original Screenplay at Venice Film Festival.
Ken Loach
Ken Loach was born in 1936 in Nuneaton. He attended King Edward VI Grammar School and went on to study law at St. Peter’s Hall, Oxford. After a brief spell in the theatre, Loach was recruited by the BBC in 1963 as a television director. This launched a long career directing films for television and the cinema, from Cathy Come Home and Kes in the sixties to Land And Freedom, Sweet Sixteen and The Wind That Shakes The Barley, Looking For Eric and Route Irish in recent years.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa is a Peruvian novelist and journalist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010.
Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing is widely regarded as one of the most important post-war writers in English. Her novels, short stories and essays have focused on a wide range of twentieth-century issues and concerns, from the politics of race that she confronted in her early novels set in Africa, to the politics of gender which lead to her adoption by the feminist movement, to the role of the family and the individual in society. In 2007, Doris Lessing was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. On Not Winning the Nobel Prize is the full text of the lecture she gave to the Swedish Academy when accepting the prize.
Carolyn Lewis
Carolyn Lewis runs creative writing workshops in Bristol. She has won a number of short story competitions. Her first novel Missing Nancy was published in 2008 and she completed an MPhil in Writing in 2005.
Her story ‘Trolley Boss’ features in Wonderwall.
James Lawless
James Lawless was born in Dublin and divides his time between Kildare and West Cork. His first novel Peeling Oranges was published in 2007. His book on modern poetry, Clearing The Tangled Wood: Poetry as a Way of Seeing the World, contains his own translations from Irish and Spanish. He writes book reviews for Laura Hird’s online New Review, for the Irish Times and The Stinging Fly magazine.
His story ‘Short Pants’ features in Route Offline.
Katherine Locke
Katherine Locke was Reader in Residence for the BBCs Big Read and has worked with various community groups on literature development projects. She is currently employed as Reader in Residence for children in care in Dorset. The aim of the post is to promote reading for pleasure opportunities for children in foster care and the children’s homes in the county. Katherine edited Dog Days, a mini collection which features in Route Offline.