![]() ![]() The essay is autobiographical the stories include Uriah’s War, which Levy also published as a stand-alone text. In 2014 she published the collection Six Stories & an Essay. ![]() Her final novel is The Long Song (2010), which was shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize and was the winner of the 2011 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. She wrote four further novels, including Small Island (2004), which won several awards (including the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2004, the Whitbread Book of the Year in 2004 and the Commonwealth Writer’s Best Book in 2005). Levy did not begin writing seriously until she was in her thirties, and she published her first novel, Every light in the house burnin’, in 1994. ![]() Andrea Levy (1956–2019) was born in London in 1956, and described herself as ‘a Londoner.’ Her parents were both from Jamaica: her father came to England on the famous ship, the Empire Windrush, in 1948, and her mother followed a few months later. ![]()
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