Born in 1961, Martin Hinchcliffe's early childhood was spent in the Middle and Far East. His family moved back to the UK in 1970 and Martin attended school in the South East of England before studying at Maidstone College of Art in 1979. In 1983 he graduated from Sheffield's Fine Art Painting
Jhumpa Lahiri's career should have been doomed as soon as she won the Pulitzer Prize for her first published book, the short story collection Interpreter of Maladies. But her subsequent releases have found her unmoored by the attention and expectations that met her debut effort, and