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Love, Life and Literature
— Author of Eight Best-Selling Novels, Mike Gayle’s Visit to China (2009)
British literature is currently in a particularly vibrant period with many energetic and innovative works filling and enriching the modern British literary scene. As a representative of contemporary British writers, Mike Gayle presented four literary events in Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai in September 2009. Please click here to read more.

Literature

Read all about it—we're pushing the envelope all the way to the razor-sharp edge of new British literature. It's an exciting time for writing in Britain.  From the well-established (Ian McEwan and Doris Lessing) to the very new (Andrea Levy and Andrew O'Hagan), the literary scene is bursting at the seams with energetic, vibrant, and innovative writing.

We promote innovative and contemporary work from the UK, and build audiences for international literature through the British Council's global network. We work with hundreds of authors all over the world, lead over 350 projects with our influential partners, host many websites and publish widely.

Publications and resources

Click here to explore the literature projects we did or supported in China.

News

What's up in the UK literature industry? Want to know more about the UK literature awards and various festivals? Find out the answers here.

British Council Literature Websites

Our wide range of websites offer a comprehensive guide to reading, UK and Commonwealth writers, literary translation and UK literary festivals...

Article of the week

Every week, our editor will present you one article in Chinese to review what happened in the UK literature scene lately. Click here to read it.

LITERATURE NEWS

1. Andrew Miller Comes to China

Novelist Andrew Miller was born in 1960 in Bristol, England. His first novel, Ingenious Pain, was published in 1997. It won three prizes, including the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Invited by British Council, Andrew Miller is coming to China at the end of August, to share his writing and creativity with Chinese readers in Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou. Click here to get more event details in the three cities.

2. Love, Life and Literature
— Author of Eight Best-Selling Novels, Mike Gayle’s Visit to China (2009)
British literature is currently in a particularly vibrant period with many energetic and innovative works filling and enriching the modern British literary scene. As a representative of contemporary British writers, Mike Gayle presented four literary events in Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai in September 2009. Please click here to read more.

Literature Projects Archive

Click here to explore the literature projects we did or supported in China.

LITERATURE WEBLINKS

Our wide range of websites offer a comprehensive guide to reading, UK and Commonwealth writers, literary translation and UK literary festivals as well as information and texts from British Council creative writing projects with teachers and readers notes to accompany our New Writing anthology.

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