Andrea Levy

1956 - 2019

genre: novel

country of citizenship: United Kingdom

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: Middlesex University, City Literary Institute

occupation: writer, novelist

award received: Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

official website: www.andrealevy.co.uk

Andrea Levy (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. Source: Wikipedia (en)