Andrea Levy

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Andrea Levy is an English author, born in 1956^[1]

Born in London to Jamaican parents, Levy's four novels explore the experiences of black Britons.

[edit] 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, "This is my England", The Guardian, February 19, 2000.

[edit] References

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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

[edit] External links

• Andrea Levy at www.contemporarywriters.com
• Andrea Levy's website [1]