CND - Key Persons
A.L.Kennedy was born in Dundee in 1965. She is the author of 17 books: 6 literary novels, 1 science fiction novel, 7 short story collections and 3 works of non-fiction. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She was twice included in the Granta Best of Young British Novelists list.
Her prose is published in a number of languages. She has won awards including the 2007 Costa Book Award and the Austrian State Prize for International Literature. She is also a dramatist for the stage, radio, TV and film. She is an essayist and regularly reads her work on BBC radio. She occasionally writes and performs one-person shows. She writes for a number of UK and overseas publications and for The Guardian Online.
Antony Owen is from Coventry and the author of five collections of poetry. His latest collection - The Nagasaki Elder (V.Press) - was shortlisted in 2018 for the coveted Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry, and two short poems of these appear in a CND Peace Education Resource for schools.
His work has been translated in Japanese, Mandarin, Arabic and Dutch and his peace poetry was also commissioned by Poetry International Europe in their international anthology for bombed cities. In 2018 Owen was a category winner of The British Army's first Armistice Poetry Competition, and was also a Peace & Reconciliation winner for his home city of Coventry. His highly anticipated next collection, The Unknown Civilian (Knives, Forks & Spoons Press), is out in November 2019. Owen is described by Joseph Horgan as "the bravest British poet of his generation".
Job Titles:
- Trustee of Prisoners of Conscience and of the Amiel Melburn Trust
Victoria Brittain has been a journalist living and working in Vietnam, the US, Africa, and the Middle East for many years, including 20 years at The Guardian. In the last dozen years she has worked from London, mainly around the issues of the so-called "war on terror", which has devastated so many countries across the world. She has written books and plays on this issue, most recently, Shadow Lives, the forgotten women of the war on terror. She writes and broadcasts in numerous media outlets.
She is on the Council of the Institute of Race Relations, a patron of Palestine Solidarity, a trustee of Prisoners of Conscience and of the Amiel Melburn Trust.