Ahdaf Soueif

At what age did you know you wanted to become a writer? Six Was your first book published or is it still lurking in a drawer somewhere? Everything I’ve ever written until 2004 has been published! What was your favourite childhood book? What Katie Did. Anne of...

Francis Spufford

At what age did you know you wanted to become a writer? Seventeen or eighteen – but it was an ambition I then gave up, and only crept my way back to in the second half of my twenties.  Was your first book published or is it still lurking in a drawer somewhere?...

China Miéville

At what age did you know you wanted to become a writer? In the sense of writing stories, as young as I can remember. In the sense of doing it professionally, I think I realised that that was potentially a thing when I was 13, and started quietly wondering if it might...

Madeleine Thien

At what age did you know you wanted to become a writer? At the age of 4, when my sister taught me to read and I imagined that reading created the story (or the world) each time we turned the page. Was your first book published or is it still lurking in a drawer...