| Writers | ![]() |
| Fernando Vallejo | James McBride | Luc Sante | Paul Auster | Bernard Henry Levy | Celine Curiol | ||||||
| Chinua Achebe | Colm Toibin | Colum McCann | Eddy Harris | Kathy Acker | Douglas Adams | ||||||
| Martin Amis | Jeffrey Archer | John Banville | Amiri Barak | Julian Barnes | Alan Bennett | ||||||
| Dermot Bolger | William Boyd | Rose Boyt | Malcolm Bradbury | Raymond Briggs | Peter Brook | ||||||
| Jung Chang | Noam Chomsky | Anthony Clare | Hugh Collins | Jackie Collins | Quentin Crisp | ||||||
| Don Cupitt | Seamus Deanne | Louis de Berniere | Joan Didion | Geoff Dyer | Umberto Eco | ||||||
| Sir Ranulph Fiennes | Tibor Fisher | Mannix Flynn | Monica Furlong | Martha Gellhorn | Gunter Grass | ||||||
| Dermot Healy | Seamus Heaney | Marian Keyes | Marian Keyes | Doris Lessing | Norman Lewis | ||||||
| Norman Mailer | Patrick Marber | Howard Marks | Gabriel García Márquez | Pat McCabe | Frank McCourt | ||||||
| John McGahern | Jimmy McGovern | Patrick Mcgrath | Ian McEwan | George Melly | Arthur Miller | ||||||
| Jonathan Miller | Desmond Morris | Iris Murdoch | Tom Murphy | Laurence Norfork | Edna O'Brian | ||||||
| Tim O'Grady | Redmond O'Hanlon | Piers Paul Reid | Salman Rushdie | Oliver Sachs | Will Self | ||||||
| Dame Muriel Spark | Tom Stoppard | David Storey | Graham Swif | Meera Syaal | Studs Terkel | ||||||
| Wilfred Thesiger | Peter Ustino | Mario Vargas Llos | Kurt Vonnegut | Arnold Wesker | Tim Williamson | ||||||
| Naomi Wolfe | |
| "The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say." Anaïs Nin |