Quotes by Andrea Levy

About Andrea Levy:

Andrea Levy is an English author, born in London to Jamaican parents who sailed to England on the Empire Windrush in 1948. Levy's novels frequently engage topics related to Jamaican diaspora peoples in England and the ways in which they negotiate racial, cultural, and national identities.
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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 ...

Andrea Levy

For, like the wind, the sun, or the flowing river, like a soaring man-of-war or a beetle under a stone, like a spider at a web or a crab scuttling sideways across a shore, Nimrod was free.

Andrea Levy

Author Bio

  • NameAndrea Levy
  • DescriptionBritish writer
  • BornMarch 7, 1956
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • AwardsCommonwealth Writers' Prize