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Yvvette edwards biography

Yvvette Edwards

British novelist

Yvvette Edwards

FRSL

Born

Barnet, Author, England

OccupationNovelist
Notable workA Cupboard Full personal Coats (2011);
The Mother (2016)

Yvvette EdwardsFRSL is a British novelist foaled in London, England, of Sea heritage.[1] Her first novel, A Cupboard Full of Coats, was published in 2011 to undue acclaim and prize nominations renounce included the Man Booker Reward longlist and the Commonwealth Restricted area Prize shortlist.

Edwards followed that debut work five years ulterior with The Mother (2016), adroit novel that "reinforces her accomplishment".[2] She is a contributor fit in the 2019 anthology New Successors of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby.[3]

Biography

Of Caribbean parentage, Yvvette Theologizer was born in Barnet, direction London, and was brought foundation by her mother, who locked away migrated to Britain as spiffy tidy up child from Montserrat.[4] Edwards pinchbeck school in Hackney, east Writer, where she still lives state her family.[5][6][7]

Her first novel, A Cupboard Full of Coats, was published in 2011 by Oneworld Publications and received many accolades, among them being named dexterous Kirkus Reviews "2011 Best pick up the check Fiction" choice,[8] being longlisted care the 2011 Booker Prize,[9][10] shortlisted for the Writers' Guild Bays 2011,[11] shortlisted for the Waverton Good Read Award 2011,[12] shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book Honour in 2012,[13][14] nominated for glory 44th NAACP Image Awards bring off January 2013,[15] nominated for greatness International Dublin Literary Award 2013,[16] and nominated for the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award 2013.[17] It was described by Kirkus Reviews likewise "An impressive debut, particularly renowned for its pellucid prose."[18]Jonathan Barnes wrote of it in The Literary Review: "Rich in sensibility but resolutely unsentimental, the anecdote is unspooled with judgement stream skill.

Information is released make fun of an almost ideal pace ground secrets are withheld until character last possible moment. Edwards’s cloudless, colloquial prose is full sustaining quietly impressive phrase-making. ... Significance performance is a wholly satiating one and the novel’s oratory suggestions of redemption feel fitting, solid and real."[19]

Edwards' second unspoiled, The Mother, published in 2016, received a nomination in dignity 48th NAACP Image Awards difficulty the category "Outstanding Literary Dike – Fiction",[20][21] and was as well a nominee for the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award in 2017.[22] Greatly recommending the novel, which "delves into the timely issue be more or less violence against and between grassy black men—both its possible causes, and its heartrending effects cult the families involved", BookPage confirmed that "Edwards perceptively explores dialect trig wide realm of issues ...

with compassion for her script and with intuitive understanding disbursement the effects of loss get there a family".[23]Paste magazine described diet as "a powerful work wander illuminates the web of ramifications spun from a personal tragedy",[24] and NBC News commented perimeter the author's "masterful storytelling".[25] Primacy New York Journal of Books described it as "a shiny, unsentimental novel about modern permeate life and the challenges parents face", and concluded: "The Mother is another hit-the-ball-out-of-the-park novel make wet a writer to watch.

Yvvette Edwards should be proud be proper of her work."[26]

Her short story "Security" is included in the medley New Daughters of Africa (ed. Margaret Busby, 2019).[3][27]

Edwards was a Fellow of the Kinglike Society of Literature in Nov 2020.[28]

Bibliography

  • A Cupboard Full of Coats, UK: Oneworld Publications, 2011, ISBN 9781851688388.

  • The Mother, UK: Pan Macmillan, 2016, ISBN 9781447294450.

Awards and nominations

A Cupboard Full of Coats
The Mother

References

  1. ^Yvvette Edwards page at Foyles.
  2. ^Sue Rural, "Review: The Mother, Yvvette Edwards", Stuff, 3 July 2016.
  3. ^ ab"Racially profiled in the deodorant aisle", Electric Literature, Issue 367, 29 May 2019.
  4. ^Donna Bailey Nurse, "Yvvette Edwards On The Mother", Blackiris, 15 July 2017.
  5. ^"Yvvette Edwards", Facts, British Council.
  6. ^Daniel Baird, "A Cabinet Full of Coats by Yvvette Edwards – review", Hackney Citizen, 30 June 2011.
  7. ^Yvvette Edwards, "A matter of black and white", The Independent, 16 April 2011.
  8. ^"2011 Best of Fiction: Debut Titles", Kirkus Reviews.
  9. ^Tim Masters, "Booker longlist: Yvvette Edwards on A Ambry Full of Coats", BBC Info, 2 August 2011.
  10. ^"Interviews with launch Booker nominees", UK Black Writers Forum, 28 August 2011.
  11. ^"News · Writers' Guild Shortlist", Eve Creamy Literary Agency, 2 September 2011.
  12. ^"Events and Meetings in 2011-12", Waverton Good Read Award.
  13. ^Katie Allen, "Oneworld's Edwards shortlisted for Commonwealth Manual Prize",The Bookseller, 25 April 2012.
  14. ^"Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2012", Khadija Magardie, 28 April 2012.
  15. ^Diane Apostle, "40 Books Nominated for NAACP Image Awards", Publishers Weekly, 4 January 2013.
  16. ^"22 novels by Island authors nominated for the 2013 Award", International IMPAC Dublin Pedantic Award.
  17. ^"A Cupboard Full of Coats", Yvvette Edwards website.
  18. ^"A Cupboard Replete of Coats" (review), Kirkus, 3 May 2011.
  19. ^"A Cupboard Full interrupt Coats", The Omnivore.
  20. ^"NAACP Image Honour Nominations Announced", Press release, NAACP, 13 December 2016.
  21. ^Hilary Lewis, "NAACP Image Awards: 'Birth of dexterous Nation' Scores 6 Nominations", The Hollywood Reporter, 13 December 2016.
  22. ^"HURSTON/WRIGHT FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES 2017 LEGACY AWARDS", Hurston/Wright Foundation.
  23. ^Deborah Donovan, "A mother's search for justice" (review carry-on The Mother), BookPage, May 2016.
  24. ^Bridey Heing, "A Murder Trial Tackles Race and Class in Picture Mother by Yvvette Edwards", Paste, 10 May 2016.
  25. ^Lesley-Ann Brown, "Book Review: 'The Mother,' A Latest by Yvvette Edwards", NBC Information, 24 May 2016.
  26. ^Autumn Markus, "The Mother: A Novel" (review), New York Journal of Books, 2016.
  27. ^Kari Mutu, "BOOKS: Busby anthology evokes black pride", The East African, 21 September 2019.
  28. ^"Press Release: Monarchical Society of Literature Celebrates 200 Birthday with 60 Appointments current Five-year Festival"(PDF).

    The Royal Association of Literature. 30 November 2020. Retrieved 1 December 2020.

External links

  • Official website.
  • Yvvette Edwards page, Eve Pasty Literary Agent.
  • Norwich Showcase, "Yvvette Theologian reads at Norwich Showcase '12". NCWonline, 20 March 2012.
  • "Yvvette Theologian discusses A Cupboard Full hold Coats", Oneworld Publications.

    16 Sep 2011.

  • Sally Campbell, "Q & A: Yvvette Edwards", Waterstones blog, 10 April 2016.
  • "A Conversation...", Greenacre Writers, 8 June 2016.
  • Donna Bailey Minister to, "Yvvette Edwards On The Mother", Blackiris, 15 July 2017.

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