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Andrea Levy FRSL (7 March 1956 – 14 February 2019) 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.
15 de fev. de 2019 · Andrea Levy, who died of cancer at 62, wrote novels that captured the black British experience after Windrush. She won several awards for Small Island, a bestseller about two Jamaicans in post-war Britain, and The Long Song, a historical drama set in 19th Century Jamaica.
9 de mai. de 2024 · A obra de Andrea Levy é extremamente relevante para a literatura contemporânea, abordando uma temática latente que, muitas vezes, acaba não sendo considerada como leitura pela grande maioria das pessoas. É importante continuar a ler autores como Levy para manter viva sua voz e validar suas experiências vividas.
21 de fev. de 2019 · Faleceu no dia 14 de fevereiro de 2019 a escritora Andrea Levy. Diagnosticada com câncer de mama em 2008, a autora declarou no ano passado que sabia que estava em estado terminal, “mas enquanto estiver viva, eu vou viver”. Nascida em Londres, a autora era filha de pais jamaicanos.
Andrea Levy is a British novelist of Jamaican descent, who explores the experiences of black British-born children of Jamaican emigrants. Her books include Small Island, The Long Song and Fruit of the Lemon, and she has won several prizes, including the Orange Prize and the Whitbread Book of the Year.
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15 de fev. de 2019 · Andrea Levy, who died of cancer at 62, was a celebrated novelist who chronicled the Windrush generation and their descendants. She won the Orange Prize and the Whitbread Book of the Year for Small Island, a best-selling novel about the clash of cultures in post-war Britain.
Andrea Levy was a British novelist of Jamaican descent who wrote about the black British experience. She won several awards for her novels, including the Orange Prize for Fiction for Small Island, and created a scholarship in her name at Edinburgh University.
