Author collection

Our selection of author archive interviews and readings from across the BBC.

Anne Enright
Best known for her novel The Gathering, which won the Man Booker prize in 2007
Anne Tyler
After two nominations, Tyler won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel Breathing Lessons
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Purple Hibiscus marked the arrival of a new literary talent
Colm Toibin
One of Ireland's greatest contemporary writers, with a career spanning 25 years
Frank Cottrell Boyce
His contribution to British children’s fiction has been widely celebrated
Helen Dunmore
Award-winning author of novels for adults and children, and several poetry collections.
Jung Chang
Her groundbreaking memoir Wild Swans saw Jung Chang rise to international fame.
Kazuo Ishiguro
Nobel Prize-winner Ishiguro became a household name with his novel The Remains of the Day.
Laurie Lee
The poet, journalist and author famous for Cider with Rosie and his autobiographical works
Maya Angelou
Role model and activist who celebrated the experience of being black in the United States
PD James
The English crime novelist who sold millions of detective books around the world
Philip Roth: In his own words
One of America’s greatest writers, Roth won almost every major literary prize.
Robert Macfarlane
His books have put him at the forefront of the New Nature genre of writing.
Rose Tremain
Her first book Sadler’s Birthday allowed her to leave her publishing job to be an author
Sarah Hall
Sarah Hall has gained a reputation as one of British writing’s great wild voices
Sebastian Faulks
The acclaimed novelist best known for his powerful WW1 novel Birdsong
Toni Morrison
Few writers have done more to bring the African-American experience into the mainstream
William Trevor
Celebrated novelist, short story writer and elder statesman of Irish literature
Zadie Smith
Smith was still a student when her first manuscript sparked a publishers' bidding war