british women short story writers

A. S. Byatt

English novelist, poet and Booker Prize winner, and won the 2017 Park Kyong-ni Prize

Elizabeth Bowen

Irish – British novelist and short story writer notable for her books about the “big house” of Irish landed Protestants as well her fiction about life in wartime London.

Diana Athill

British literary editor, novelist and memoirist who worked with some of the greatest writers of the 20th century at the London-based publishing company Andre Deutsch Ltd.