Nigerian female author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is a renowned public speaker as well as a novelist. Her main concerns as a writer are female and African American identity, and she repeatedly explores the extent of an individual’s autonomy in determining cultural identity. Check out her inspirational and resonant novels, 'Half of a Yellow Sun' and 'Americanah', as well as her various TED Talks, including 'The Danger of a Single Story' and 'We Should All Be Feminists'.

Read published author, Elisa’s engaging piece on why the deeply-philosophical, yet compelling writer, Iris Murdoch, deserves a new audience: “I discovered Iris Murdoch in my first year at Cambridge, where I was studying English at Pembroke College…this was 1999 and my best friend had just finished The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch and passed it to me as I waved my goodbye before leaving.”

Discover one of Latin America’s most popular authors, Isabelle Allende, in Lila’s blog on the genre of magical realism, ‘Writing as an act of hope’ and a form of female resistance in The House of Spirits.

A spotlight on Edwidge Danticat, a Haitian author who writes in English. Amy first discovered her work when completing her french dissertation on Haitian literature, and found her novels a fascinating insight into a history that was previously unknown - the parsley massacre, the continued rivalry between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. This post spotlights a different country as well as an inspiring female author worth a voice.