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Andrea Levy


Born
in London, England, The United Kingdom
March 07, 1956

Died
February 14, 2019

Website

Genre
Literature & Fiction, Short Stories


Andrea Levy was an English novelist, born in London to Jamaican parents. Her novels chronicled the experiences of the post-World War II generation of Jamaican immigrants in Britain. She was one of the first black British authors to achieve both critical and commercial success. Her novel Small Island won several major literary prizes: the Orange Prize for women's fiction, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Whitbread Book of the Year award.

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Average rating: 3.94 · 55,255 ratings · 4,289 reviews · 30 distinct works • Similar authors
Small Island
4.01 avg rating — 37,357 ratings — published 2004 — 79 editions
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The Long Song
3.79 avg rating — 11,216 ratings — published 2010 — 55 editions
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Fruit of the Lemon
3.63 avg rating — 2,792 ratings — published 1999 — 23 editions
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Every Light in the House Bu...
3.93 avg rating — 1,493 ratings — published 1994 — 13 editions
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Never Far from Nowhere
3.76 avg rating — 1,214 ratings — published 1996 — 13 editions
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Six Stories and An Essay
4.04 avg rating — 448 ratings — published 2014 — 10 editions
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Uriah's War
3.97 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions
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Displacement Stories of Ide...
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La utilidad de todo este do...
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“There are some words that once spoken will split the world in two. There would be the life before you breathed them and then the altered life after they'd been said. They take a long time to find, words like that. They make you hesitate. Choose with care. Hold on to them unspoken for as long as you can just so your world will stay intact.”
― Andrea Levy, Small Island
tags: words
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“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live”
― Andrea Levy, The Long Song
tags: laughter, life, love
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“He looked so pained that I dreamed of taking his hands and making him dance”
― Andrea Levy, Small Island
tags: compassionate
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Polls

What should be our April Group Read? (Literary Award Winners)

White Teeth by Zadie Smith (Commonwealth Writers Prize)
 
  17 votes 20.2%

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (Costa Book Award)
 
  13 votes 15.5%

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
 
  12 votes 14.3%

The Giver by Lois Lowry (Newbery Medal)
 
  8 votes 9.5%

Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Anisfield-Wolf Award)
 
  7 votes 8.3%

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton (Man Booker Prize)
 
  6 votes 7.1%

Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner (Man Booker Prize)
 
  4 votes 4.8%

 
  4 votes 4.8%

Small Island by Andrea Levy (Orange Women's Prize for Fiction)
 
  3 votes 3.6%

 
  3 votes 3.6%

The Sari Shop by Rupa Bajwa (Grinzane Cavour Best Young Author)
 
  3 votes 3.6%

The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny (Anthony Award, Agatha Award)
 
  2 votes 2.4%

Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm (Locus, Hugo, and Jupiter awards)
 
  2 votes 2.4%

84 total votes
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Topics Mentioning This Author

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The History Book ...: 2. NO ORDINARY TIME ~ CHAPTERS 2 - 3 ( 40– 80) (10/26/09 - 11/01/09) ~ No spoilers, please 97 76 Nov 07, 2009 08:36PM  
Literary Fiction ...: Orange Prize Longlist includes Attica Locke & other Authors of Color 16 43 Apr 20, 2010 07:46PM  
Literary Fiction ...: "Small Island", Prize- Winning Novel by Andrea Levy, Comes to Masterpiece 12 32 May 08, 2010 07:05AM  
Goodreads Malaysia: Senarai Panjang Hadiah Booker 2010 8 34 Aug 01, 2010 09:58PM  
The Seasonal Read...: 20.7 Erin NY’s Task (Shorter is Sweeter) – The Melting Pot 108 220 Nov 10, 2010 12:57AM  
The Seasonal Read...: This topic has been closed to new comments. Fall Challenge 2010 Completed Tasks (do NOT delete any posts in this thread) 2785 1205 Nov 30, 2010 09:03PM