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List of British Jewish writers

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List of British Jewish writers is a list that includes writers (novelists, poets, playwrights, journalists and others) from the United Kingdom and its predecessor states who are or were Jewish or of Jewish descent.

Contents

Authors, A-J

  • Grace Aguilar, novelist and poet
  • Naomi Alderman, novelist, winner of the 2006 Orange Award for new writers
  • Lisa Appignanesi, novelist
  • Jillian Becker
  • Alain de Botton, writer
  • Caryl Brahms, writer
  • David Bret, biographer, broadcaster and chansonnier (French-born; Jewish father)
  • Anita Brookner, novelist
  • Ian Buruma, Dutch-born journalist and writer
  • Elias Canetti, novelist, man of letters, 1981 Nobel Prize (Bulgarian-born)
  • Chapman Cohen, writer on secularism
  • Jackie Collins, novelist
  • Alan Coren, humorous writer; his children, Giles and Victoria, are also writers
  • Charlotte Dacre, novelist and poet
  • Jenny Diski, writer
  • Isaac D'Israeli, writer
  • Richard Ellmann, literary scholar and biographer
  • Moris Farhi, writer (Turkish-born)
  • Benjamin Farjeon
  • Eleanor Farjeon, daughter of Benjamin Farjeon
  • Gilbert Frankau, writer
  • Gillian Freeman, novelist and screenwriter
  • Stephen Fry, actor and writer
  • Neil Gaiman, fantasy writer
  • Ralph Glasser, wrote Growing up in the Gorbals
  • Louis Golding, novelist
  • Lewis Goldsmith, journalist and political writer
  • Linda Grant, novelist
  • Charlotte Haldane, feminist writer
  • Basil Henriques
  • Muriel Gray, author, The Tube presenter
  • Zoë Heller, author (Jewish father)
  • Noreena Hertz, great granddaughter of Joseph Hertz (Chief Rabbi of the British Empire)
  • Anthony Horowitz, works include the Alex Rider series
  • Eva Ibbotson, known for her award-winning children's books and for her romance novels
  • Joseph Jacobs, folklorist
  • Howard Jacobson, writer and broadcaster
  • Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, novelist and screenwriter
  • Gabriel Josipovici, novelist and short story writer

    • Authors, K-Z

  • Judith Kerr, children's writer
  • Gerald Kersh, novelist
  • Matthew Kneale, writer (Jewish mother)
  • Arthur Koestler, novelist and critic
  • Bernard Kops, poet
  • Marghanita Laski, writer
  • Stephen Laughton, playwright
  • Sir Sidney Lee (1859–1926), biographer and literary scholar
  • Joseph Leftwich, writer, one of the Whitechapel Boys
  • David Levi, writer on Jewish subjects
  • Amy Levy (1861–1889), poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist
  • Paul Levy, food writer, biographer; long rabbinical pedigree
  • Emanuel Litvinoff, novelist
  • Leo Marks, cryptographer and screenwriter
  • Anna Maxted, writer, journalist
  • George Mikes, Hungarian-born comic writer
  • Santa Montefiore, author (convert)
  • Simon Sebag Montefiore, writer
  • Joseph Pardo (c. 1624 – 1677), hazzan and writer
  • Alexander Piatigorsky, writer, philosopher, culture theorist; winner of the 2002 Russian Bely Prize for literature
  • Harold Pinter, writer, playwright
  • Frederic Raphael, screenwriter, novelist and critic
  • Michael Rosen, novelist, poet and broadcaster
  • Bernice Rubens, novelist
  • Will Self, novelist (Jewish mother)
  • J. David Simons, novelist
  • Muriel Spark, novelist (Jewish father, possible Jewish mother; converted to Catholicism later in life)
  • William Sutcliffe, novelist; New Boy (1986), Are You Experienced? (1997), Whatever Makes You Happy (2008), and The Wall (2013), set in an Israeli colony
  • Adam Thirlwell, novelist
  • Fredric Warburg, author and publisher
  • Stephen Winsten, writer
  • Leonard Woolf, writer and activist
  • Israel Zangwill, novelist
  • Theodore Zeldin, writer

    • Poets

  • Dannie Abse, poet, brother of Leo Abse and psychoanalyst Wilfred Abse
  • Al Alvarez, poet
  • Ivor Cutler, poet, humorist, musician
  • Elaine Feinstein, poet, writer, biographer
  • Rose Fyleman, children's writer
  • Karen Gershon, German-born poet
  • Philip Hobsbaum, poet
  • Jenny Joseph, poet
  • Amy Levy, poet and novelist
  • Vivian de Sola Pinto, poet
  • John Rodker, poet and publisher
  • Isaac Rosenberg, war poet
  • Jon Silkin, poet
  • Arthur Waley, poet and prose writer
  • Humbert Wolfe, poet and civil servant

    • Playwrights

  • Peter Barnes, playwright
  • Steven Berkoff, playwright, actor, author, and theatre director
  • Ronald Harwood, playwright and screenwriter
  • Tom Kempinski, playwright and screenwriter
  • Stephen Laughton, playwright
  • Patrick Marber, playwright and comedian
  • Harold Pinter, playwright
  • Jack Rosenthal, TV playwright
  • Peter and Anthony Shaffer, playwrights
  • Tom Stoppard. playwright
  • Alfred Sutro, playwright
  • Arnold Wesker, playwright

    • Journalists

  • Barbara Amiel
  • Lionel Blue, rabbi and journalist
  • Alex Brummer, economic and financial journalist and biographer
  • Ian Buruma, Dutch-born author and journalist
  • Giles Coren
  • John Diamond, journalist
  • Jonathan Freedland, journalist
  • Ernest Abraham Hart
  • Matthew Kalman, editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Report
  • Dominic Lawson, journalist
  • Nigella Lawson, cookery writer
  • Norman Lebrecht, journalist, writer and critic
  • Bernard Levin, journalist and broadcaster
  • Emily Maitlis, TV newscaster and reporter
  • Robert Peston, BBC Business Editor
  • Melanie Phillips, journalist
  • Eve Pollard, journalist and newspaper editor
  • Marjorie Proops, agony aunt
  • Richard Quest, CNN International anchorman
  • Kimberly Quinn, publisher
  • Claire Rayner, agony aunt
  • Jon Ronson, journalist, author, documentary filmmaker and radio presenter
  • Jon Sopel, journalist; presents The Politics Show on BBC One; one of the lead presenters on News 24
  • Victor Weisz, Vicky, cartoonist

    • References

    List of British Jewish writers Wikipedia
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