Professor Wole Soyinka is a novelist, playwright, poet, essayist and human rights advocate. He was Africa’s first Nobel Prize winner …

The Brazilian novelist, playwright and screen-play writer Patricia Melo was born in Sao Paulo and currently lives in Rio De Janeiro. The city was the inspiration and location for a series of best-selling novels which document, in both raw and poignant details, life in the favelas (shanty towns) which encircle the city’s residential areas …

Marina Lewycka was born of Ukrainian parents in a refugee camp in Kiel, Germany, at the end of the Second World War and grew up in England….

Ishmael Beah was born in a small village in Sierra Leone in 1980 and moved to the US in 1998 to finish his schooling. But the interim years were utterly shattered from normality after his childhood involuntarily ended at the age of 12, when he escaped the rebel army attacking his family village…

Prize winning author Tim’s donated story, Superman, is a raw tale about a young boy’s confusion as his parents try to instill a sense of right and wrong …

Guo ‘Lucy’ Xiaolu was born in China in 1973, in an isolated, traditional fishing village which became the inspiration for her debut novel, A Village Of Stone (2005). She was raised during the Cultural Revolution…