Refugee Boy (Student Editions)

Benjamin Zephaniah

ISBN 10: 1350171913 / ISBN 13: 9781350171916

Verlag: Methuen Drama, 2022

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers GOR013903406

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Adapted from the novel by Benjamin Zephaniah, Refugee Boy is an urgent story of a young boy sent from Ethiopia to England to escape the violent civil war. It is published here for the first time as a Methuen Drama Student Edition.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren: A high-profile international author with an enormous breadth of appeal, Benjamin Zephaniah was perhaps best known for his performance poetry with a political edge for adults and ground-breaking performance poetry for children. Alongside his poetry he created novels and plays, wrote and performed music and had a recurring role as preacher Jeremiah Jesus in the BBC series Peaky Blinders. In his novels for young people, which include Face, Refugee Boy, Gangsta Rap and Teacher's Dead, Zephaniah tackled vital themes that resonate as much today as they did upon their first publication.

Lemn Sissay is author of five books of poetry and has appeared in many anthologies. He reads poetry on stages throughout the world. He is an honorary Doctor of Letters and was awarded the 2010 travelling award scholarship from the Society of Authors. His play Something Dark, directed by John McGrath, was the winner of a Race in the Media Award (RIMA). Internal Flight is a television documentary about his life in care and subsequent journey to Ethiopia where he found his family, made by the BBC.

Sissay is associate artist at Southbank Centre, Europe's largest arts complex. Sissay curated the world's first Literature Festival of the Sea. His Landmark Poems are displayed on the walls and streets of Manchester and London. In London they adorn the Royal Festival Hall; "Gilt of Cain", commissioned by City of London was erected near Fenchurch Street Station and was unveiled by Bishop Desmond Tutu. He was the first poet to write for the London Olympics 2012 and his poem "Spark Catchers" remains onsite today. Lemn is patron of the Reader Organisation and the Letterbox Club. He is education ambassador for the Arvon Foundation and Trustee of World Book Night. All details can be found at http://www.lemnsissay.com

Lynette Goddard is Professor of Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Refugee Boy (Student Editions)
Verlag: Methuen Drama
Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Fine