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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.
Feb 15, 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.
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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Feb 15, 2019 · LONDON (AP) — Andrea Levy, a prize-winning novelist who chronicled the hopes and horrors experienced by the post-World War II generation of Jamaican immigrants in Britain, has died. She was 62, and had suffered from cancer.
Feb 15, 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.
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Feb 15, 2019 · Feb. 15, 2019. LONDON — Andrea Levy, a prizewinning author whose novels chronicled the experience of Jamaican immigrants in Britain, died on Thursday night. She was 62. Her death, from cancer,...
Feb 18, 2019 · Andrea Levy, who died in 2019, was a prize-winning novelist who raised awareness of the intertwined histories of Britain and the Caribbean. Her novels, such as Small Island and The Long Song, explored the experiences of migration, slavery and racism from different perspectives and periods.
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