British writer, broadcaster, journalist and lecturer (born 1956)
Ferdinand Dennis
FRSL
Born
(1956-03-18) 18 March 1956 (age 68)[1]
Kingston, Jamaica
Education
Leicester University (1975–78); Birkbeck College, London University (1978–79)
Occupation(s)
Writer, journalist and broadcaster
Notable work
Behind the Frontlines: Journey into Afro-Britain (1988); The Sleepless Summer (1989); The Last Blues Dance (1996); Duppy Conqueror (1998)
Awards
1988 Martin Luther King Memorial Prize
Ferdinand DennisFRSL (born 18 March 1956)[2] is a writer, broadcaster, journalist and lecturer, who is Jamaican by birth but at the age of eight moved to England, where his parents had migrated in the late 1950s.[3] Dr James Procter notes: "Perhaps as a result of his Caribbean background (a region probably marked more than any other by movements and migration), Dennis is a writer ultimately more concerned with routes than roots. This is foregrounded in much of his fictional work, notably his most recent and ambitious novel to date, Duppy Conqueror (1998), a novel which moves from 1930s Jamaica to postwar London and Liverpool, to Africa. Similarly, Dennis' non-fiction centres on journeying rather than arrival, from Behind the Frontlines: Journey into Afro-Britain (1988) to Voices of the Crossing: The Impact of Britain on Writers from Asia, the Caribbean and Africa (2000)."[2]
^Aatkar, Sofia, "Ferdinand Dennis", The Literary Encyclopedia, 17 October 2016.
^ ab"Ferdinand Dennis" Archived 18 May 2015 at the Wayback Machine, British Council, Literature Matters.
^Ferdinand Dennis, "My father's island", The Guardian, 10 June 2000.
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