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C.P. Snow was born in Leicester, England. He started his professional life as a scientist, though writing was always his ultimate ambition

Indra Sinha was born in India. His novel Animal’s People was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2007

In the evening of his life, a wealthy man begins to wonder if he might have missed the point, in Hwang Sok-yong’s wise and thoughtful novel

Colm Tóibín presents a striking vision of the Virgin Mary as a mother wracked with grief, who is bitterly mourning the brutal death of her son

Andrzej Tichý paints a delirious portrait of an excluded community of nomads, full of potent fuel and dancing to a different beat

Colm Tóibín captures the exquisite anguish of a man whose artistic gifts led to triumph but whose private life was haunted by loneliness and longing

Andrzej Tichy was born in Prague to a Polish mother and a Czech father. He has lived in Sweden since 1981

An Irish country girl marries in haste, but finds an escape from her loveless marriage in William Trevor’s haunting and evocative tale

Christos Tsiolkas has personal experience of the far-reaching impact of a slap. When he was 18 and about to go to university, his uncle slapped him ‘somewhere between affection and a warning’ so as not to forget where he came from

Enrique Vila-Matas is widely considered to be one of Spain's most important contemporary novelists