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The British author Andrea Levy, who died in early 2019, won acclaim for her novel (Small Island), documenting the lives of Windrush immigrants in Britain. Ed...
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ournalist and broadcaster Gary Younge is joined by family and friends of novelist Andrea Levy to celebrate her life and work. Expect personal stories, along ...
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Dec 2, 2009 · Andrea Levy tells the story of how she came to write this fascinating novel of Jamaica during the last turbulent years of slavery and the early years of free...
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Feb 15, 2019 · British author Andrea Levy, whose award-winning novels captured the black British experience in the years after Windrush, has died at the age of 62. A statement released on behalf of her family ...
Andrea Levy. Andrea Levy FRSL (7 March 1956 – 14 February 2019) [1][2][3] was an English author best known for the novels Small Island (2004) and The Long Song (2010). She was born in London to Jamaican parents, and her work explores topics related to British Jamaicans and how they negotiate racial, cultural and national identities. [4][5]
Feb 8, 2020 · Andrea Levy: In Her Own Words. Author Andrea Levy, alongside friends and family, speaks candidly about her writing life and her impending death. From 2020. Profiling the life and work of Andrea ...
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Jun 5, 2023 · The Long Song. Andrea Levy’s bittersweet novel about the last days of slavery in Jamaica is powerful and intimate - and full of mischievous surprise. Andrea Levy, the author of The Long Song, died in 2019. Here we reproduce some of her comments on the book, including how and why she wrote it.