Description
Join acclaimed authors Colin Grant and Malika Booker as they discuss their compelling perspectives on the complexities of identity, belonging, and cultural heritage. Central to their respective works is the transformative, challenging and rich Caribbean voice, that has both revived and redefined Britishness.
Colin Grant will discuss his widely-praised and powerful new memoir, I’m Black So You Don’t Have to Be, in which he examines his own experiences growing up in, and navigating, a predominantly white society. Pioneering poet and author Malika Booker will be sharing insights into her latest works, which explore Black women’s voices and reimagines Biblical characters through Caribbean voices.
Join these two literary pioneers as they discuss what it means to be Black in today’s world.
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About the Authors
Colin Grant
Colin Grant’s books include Bageye at the Wheel, short-listed for the Pen Ackerley Prize, and Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation. He is the director of WritersMosaic, a division of the Royal Literary Fund, and writes for the Guardian, Observer and New York Review of Books. His latest memoir is I’m Black So You Don’t Have to Be.
Malika Booker
Malika Booker is a poetry Lecturer at Manchester University, a British poet of Guyanese and Grenadian Parentage and the founder of Malika’s Poetry Kitchen. Her first poetry collection Pepper Seed (Peepal Tree Press, 2013) was shortlisted for the OCM Bocas prize and the Seamus Heaney Centre 2014 prize for first full collection. She is published with the poets Sharon Olds and Warsan Shire in The Penguin Modern Poet Series 3:Your Family: Your Body (2017). A cave Canem Fellow, she won The Forward Poetry Prize for Best Single Poem (2020).
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