{"id":1619,"date":"2018-10-11T14:44:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T14:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/?page_id=1619"},"modified":"2024-05-07T08:57:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T08:57:39","slug":"levy-andrea","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/?page_id=1619","title":{"rendered":"Levy, Andrea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrea Levy was an English novelist of Jamaican-Jewish descent. She was born in London in 1956. Her novels explore the problems faced by black British-born children of Jamaican emigrants. When she started writing in her mid-thirties, there was little written about the black British experience in Britian. Her first novel is the semi-autobiographical <em>Every Light in the House Burnin&#8217;<\/em> (1994). Other novels include\u00a0<em>Never Far from Nowhere<\/em> (1996) and\u00a0<em>Fruit of the Lemon<\/em> (1999).\u00a0Her multi-prize winning novel <em>Small Island<\/em> (2004) was adapted for television by the BBC and is adapted for the National Theatre by Helen Edmundson.\u00a0Her latest novel\u00a0<em>The Long Song<\/em> (2010) won\u00a0the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Levy&#8217;s collection of short stories,\u00a0<em>Six Stories and an Essay<\/em>,\u00a0was published in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Andrea Levy died in February 2019.<\/p>\n<p>For more information visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.andrealevy.co.uk\">https:\/\/www.andrealevy.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrea Levy was an English novelist of Jamaican-Jewish descent. She was born in London in 1956. Her novels explore the problems faced by black British-born children of Jamaican emigrants. When she started writing in her mid-thirties, there was little written about the black British experience in Britian. Her first novel is the semi-autobiographical Every Light [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":563,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1619","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1619"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3195,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1619\/revisions\/3195"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}