Alex Wheatle
Alex Alphonso Wheatle MBE is a British novelist. He was sentenced to a term of imprisonment after the 1981 Brixton riot. Wheatle spent much of his childhood in a Shirley Oaks children’s home. He received the London Arts Board New Writers Award in 1999 for his debut novel Brixton Rock.
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Alex Alphonso Wheatle MBE is a British novelist, who was sentenced to a term of imprisonment after the 1981 Brixton riot in London. Wheatle spent much of his childhood in a Shirley Oaks children’s home. He features aspects of his life in his books, such as East of Acre Lane characters Yardman Irie and Jah Nelson. He received the London Arts Board New Writers Award in 1999 for his debut novel Brixton Rock, which was later adapted for the stage and performed at the Young Vic in July 2010.
His young-adult novel Liccle Bit was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal in 2016. His 2016 book Crongton Knights won the 50th Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize.
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