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Andrea Levy is dead - she wrote for thousands of immigrants
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/15/obituaries/andrea-levy-dead.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytbooksAndrea Levy, a prizewinning author whose novels chronicled the experience of Jamaican immigrants in Britain, died Thursday night. She was 62.
Her death, from cancer, was confirmed in a statement by Headline, her publisher. It did not say where she died.
Ms. Levy, whose books included “Small Island” and “The Long Song,” was seen by many as the voice of tens of thousands of people who migrated to Britain from its former colonies in the West Indies after World War II to help rebuild the country, only to encounter racism.
Her father, Winston Levy, was one of the more than 490 people aboard the passenger liner Empire Windrush when it arrived in Britain in 1948 from Jamaica. The immigrants came to be known as the Windrush generation.
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