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Diran Adebayo

    Diran Adebayo est un romancier, critique culturel et animateur britannique, célèbre pour ses représentations vives de la vie londonienne contemporaine et son utilisation distinctive de la langue. Son œuvre est reconnue pour articuler une perspective britanno-africaine avec authenticité et pour sa fusion innovante de genres littéraires et d'éléments mythologiques. Adebayo est loué pour sa capacité à capturer l'air du temps et son approche avant-gardiste de la narration, consolidant sa réputation d'innovateur littéraire.

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    New Writing
    • New Writing

      • 331pages
      • 12 heures de lecture

      Through its annual anthologies of New Writing the British Council launches many new authors and provides a shop window around the world in which vigorous new writing can be viewed. New Writing 12 is the new volume in this series, promoting the best in contemporary literature in the English language in Britain and internationally. It brings together some of the most formidable talents, placing new names alongside more established ones, includes extracts from novels in progress, non-fiction essays, short stories and poetry. Distinctive, innovative and entertaining, it is essential reading for all those interested in British writing today.

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    • A coming of age story about Dele, a young student, and his sister Dapo whp glide through love, politics and violence; Diran Adebayo's debut is funny, street-smart fiction which puts language through hoops to create an exhilarating odyssey through the London scene.

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