Andrea Levy

Andrea Levy is a black British author, born in 1956 [Andrea Levy, [http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/politicsphilosophyandsociety/story/0,6000,138282,00.html "This is my England", "The Guardian", February 19, 2000.]

Born in London to Jamaican parents, Levy's four novels explore the experiences of black Britons, focussing on the retrieval of counter-memories to the dominating discourse.

Bibliography

* "Every Light in the House Burnin"' (1994)
* "Never Far from Nowhere" (1996)
* "Fruit of the Lemon" (1999)
* "Small Island", (2004) winner of the 2004 Orange Prize for Fiction, 2004 Whitbread Book of the Year, and 2005 Commonwealth Writers Prize

* Andrea Levy, [http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/politicsphilosophyandsociety/story/0,6000,138282,00.html "This is my England", The Guardian, February 19, 2000.]

References

* James, Cynthia. "'You'll Soon Get Used to Our Language' Language, Parody and West Indian Identity in Andrea Levy's Small Island." Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal 5.1 (2007): [http://anthurium.miami.edu/volume_5/issue_1/james-language.html http://anthurium.miami.edu/volume_5/issue_1/james-language.html]

* Machado Sáez, Elena. “Bittersweet (Be)Longing: Filling the Void of History in Andrea Levy’s "Fruit of the Lemon".” "Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal" 4.1 (2006): 26pp. 12 Sept. 2006 [http://scholar.library.miami.edu/anthurium/index.html http://scholar.library.miami.edu/anthurium/index.html]

* Medovarski, Andrea. "'I Knew This Was England': Myths of Return in Andrea Levy's Fruit of the Lemon." MaComère: Journal of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars 8 (2006): 35-66.

* Toplu, Sebnem. "Home(land) or 'Motherland': Translational Identities in Andrea Levy's Fruit of the Lemon," "Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal" 3.1 (2005): 21 paragraphs.

External links

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* Andrea Levy's website [http://www.andrealevy.co.uk/]