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Novel on J’can immigrantswins second literary prizeLevy, the daughter of Jamaicans who eunie to Britain in 1948. grew up in northLONDON (Ain:A NOVEL ahum the I s of Jamaican immigrants in p var Britain lias achieved at: inthe Whitbread Book ol the Year award lu an earlier prize for women's fiction.Andrea Levy. 48. of London, had been highly favoured to win ilie €3O.0(X) (J$3.5 million) prize alter Small Island - her fourth hook - won Whitbread's novel of liic year awaid earlier this month. -In June, she won the Orange Prize, which is given to a woman willing in English. She is the first author 10 win both prizes.Journalist Sir Trevor McDonald, a native ol Trinidad who chaired ;hc Whitbread judging panel, said Small Island was a brilliantly observed story abouta period of English history that many people knew little about.A SLICE OF LIFE‘Tl\c book is a slice of life fromihu West Indian diaspora, people w!k came over here in tlic 1940s lo light for the mother country against the tyianny of Hitler's Germany. McDonald said.*‘Il is a great story and she handles the material absolutely brilliantly.' lie said.The Whitbread awards weic established in 1971 and are Britain's longest-running literary competition. They arc Open lo residents of Britain and the Republic of Ireland.London. She has said her htxjks aie not about race, hut about people and history.Accepting the Whilbread prize, she paid tribute lo people whose efforts have confounded the pic diction of politician Enoch Powell in the 1960s that immigration would leal to rivers of blood flowing in Britain.Most ul all I would like lo thank all those people in Britain who work hard lo make sure I lie rivers in this country never run with blood, only with water.” Levy said.
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Kingston Gleaner
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Thu, Jan 27, 2005
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