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LARA:the family is like water (Bloodaxe Books, October 29, 2009)
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Revised & Expanded: all about my family history: 150 years, 7 generations, five countries of origin. This photo is of my parents’ wedding day: Camberwell, London, 1955.
BLONDE ROOTS ( USA publication)
Riverhead/Penguin, January 2009
(Africans enslave Europeans)
BLONDE ROOTS (UK publication)
Hamish Hamilton/Penguin 2008
Africans enslave Europeans.
(Prose novel)
Longlisted: the Orange Prize, 2009
Winner: the Orange Prize Youth Shadow Panel.
SOUL TOURISTS
Hamish Hamilton/Penguin 2005
(Verse novel)
Car journey across Europe in 1988
featuring ghosts of colour from history
NESTA Fellowship Award
(National Endowment of Science, Technology & the Arts)
THE EMPEROR’S BABE
Hamish Hamilton/Penguin 2001
(Verse novel)
Zuleika, feisty daughter of Sudanese immigrants who comes of age in Roman London nearly 2000 years ago.
Arts Council Writers’ Award, 2000
LARA (original)
150 years, 7 generations, 3 continents
of my family history spanning Europe, Africa & South America.
(Verse novel)
Published with new material
by Bloodaxe, 2009
BT EMMA Best Book Award, 1999
NW15 (New Writing No 15)
(Co-editor with Maggie Gee) 2007.
Published by Granta/British Council
Featuring Doris Lessing, Julian Barnes, Alasdair Gray, Helen Dunmore, Kwame Dawes, Henry Shukman, Robert Robertson, Rob A. Mackenzie, Sudeep Sen, Anita Desai, Fiona Sampson, Karen McCarthy, Ma Jian, Rob A. Mackenzie, Charles Lambert, Selma Dabbagh, Nii Akwei Parkes, Catherine Smith, Moniza Alvi, Kerri Sakatmoto, Jean Sprackland, Lucy Eyre, Tod Hartman, Sarah Hymas, Anthony Joseph, John Siddique, Saradha Soobrayen, Boyd Tonkin, Gerard Woodward and others…
2 responses so far ↓
Michael Ruben // August 30, 2009 at 1:18 pm
I’ve never written an author before, and hopefully this is the right place to do it. I’ve had to read lots of slavery related books for my college courses. They were enjoyable, but the angle that you take brings the concept of slavery alive for someone like me: I should add I am white. I am also Jewish, and when I read about Jewish slavery in Egypt it seems distant, Fictitious… just like reading about black slavery- seeing is believing for me and I forced myself to step into Buchenwald to try and get some human sense of what happened to my relatives. Your book captures a reality that is scary, real, and inspiring. I am training to be a high school social studies teacher. I showed your book to a mentor teacher last year. She is black, and her eyes lit up when I told her about the book. All I’m saying is that your book would be instrumental in the classroom. Few books truly open the past. I wanted to write you and tell you that yours is one.
bevaristo // August 31, 2009 at 7:03 am
HI Michael,
Thanks very much for your response to Blonde Roots. I too think it would work in the classroom, as a way of getting students to look
at this history with fresh eyes. The novel is coming out in paperback in the USA this November. It’s already beginning to be taught on university courses in the UK
and I know about a couple of university courses in the USA too. Thanks again.