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Angela Carter
Angela Carter was a lauded novelist who died of lung cancer aged just 51. Despite acclaimed books such as Wise Children and Nights at the Circus, she was never nominated for the Booker Prize.
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Liz Calder
Liz Calder is a publisher and editor.
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Horatia Harrod
Horatia Harrod is an editor at the Financial Times Weekend.
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Katie Derham
Katie Derham is a British radio and television presenter.
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George Steiner
George Steiner was a French-born polymath described by A.S. Byatt as a ‘late, late, late Renaissance man’. His father made him learn the Iliad in Greek at the age of six.
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Edna O'Brien
Edna O’Brien’s first novel, The Country Girls (1960), was banned and burned in her native Ireland, although she was later described by Philip Roth as ‘the most gifted woman now writing in English’.
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Gillian Reynolds
Gillian Reynolds has the distinction of being a radio reviewer for national newspapers for more than 50 years. She still believes radio to be ‘a medium of the future not a dusty relic’.
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Susannah Clapp
Susannah Clapp was a founding editor, with Karl Miller, of the London Review of Books and, since 1997, has been the theatre critic of the Observer, a job in which she thought she’d last ‘a year’.
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Jeremy Treglown
Jeremy Treglown is an academic, former editor of the Times Literary Supplement and a literary biographer. The latter is a form, he says ‘whose subjectivity can in the end only be overcome by dialogue’.
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Ian Jack
Ian Jack is a journalist, author and former newspaper editor who believes that ‘Journalism is often at its most effective when it remembers its humblest duty - to witness and record.’