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Andrea Levy |
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Andrea
Levy was born in London, England in 1956 to Jamaican
parents. Her first three novels explored —
from different perspectives — the problems
faced by black British-born children of Jamaican
emigrants.
Her first novel, the semi-autobiographical Every
Light in the House Burnin’ (1994), is the
story of a Jamaican family living in London in the
1960s. Her second, Never Far from Nowhere (1996),
is set during the 1970s and tells the story of two
very different sisters living on a London council
estate. In her third, Fruit of the Lemon (1999),
Faith Jackson, a young black Londoner, visits Jamaica
after suffering a nervous breakdown and discovers
a previously unknown personal history.
Her most recent novel is Small Island, which was
published in 2004. Set in 1948, it uses the stories
of both English and Jamaican characters to explore
a point in England’s past when the country
began to change. It was the winner of the prestigious
Orange Prize for Fiction 2004 and the Whitbread
Novel Award. Ms. Levy lives and works in London.
Program: The Great Non-American Novel
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