Amryl Johnson (Author)
Amryl Johnson was a poet, author and performer born in Trinidad.
She was brought up by her grandparents until the age of 11, when
she moved to Britain to join her parents. She attended secondary
school in London and went on to study British, African and
Caribbean literature at the University of Kent. She taught at the
University of Warwick. Johnson's work was included in several
anthologies, including News for Babylon- The Chatto Book of
Westindian-British Poetry, Let It Be Told- Essays by Black Women in
Britain, Watchers & Seekers- Creative Writing by Black Women in
Britain, The New British Poetry and Daughters of Africa.
Bernardine Evaristo (Introducer)
Bernardine Evaristo, MBE, is the award-winning author of eight
books of fiction and verse fiction that explore aspects of the
African diaspora. Her novel Girl, Woman, Other made her the first
black woman to win the Booker Prize in 2019, as well winning the
Fiction Book of the Year Award at the British Book Awards in 2020,
where she also won Author of the Year, and the Indie Book Award.
She also became the first woman of colour and black British writer
to reach No.1 in the UK paperback fiction chart in 2020. Her
writing spans reviews, essays, drama and radio, and she has edited
and guest-edited national publications, including The Sunday Time's
Style magazine. Her other awards and honours include an MBE in
2009. Bernardine is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel
University, London, and President of the Royal Society of
Literature. She lives in London with her husband.
www.bevaristo.com
Sequins is a powerful and unusual book, in that it combines the
familiar traveller's tales with an account of another kind of
journey and process of discovery, as Johnson confronts the 'ghost
who was haunting herself' in order that she might come to terms
with her sense of a fragmented identity
*Guardian*
Euphoric and infused with the pulsing bassline of calypso . . . a
revelatory discovery of the shattering yet necessary inheritance of
colonialism
*Wasafiri*
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