Delia Jarrett-Macauley
The youngest daughter of Sierra Leonean parents, is a novelist, biographer, academic and broadcaster.
Her first novel, Moses, Citizen & Me, received the 2005 Orwell Prize for political writing.
The Life of Una Marson 1905-1965
A biography of Jamaican feminist, activist and writer Una Marson, who established herself as a pioneering journalist, playwright and poet in the early 1920s. She travelled to London in 1932, meeting leading black figures such as Haile Selassie, befor…
Moses , Citizen & Me
When Julia flies into war-scarred Sierra Leone from London, she is apprehensive about seeing her uncle Moses for the first time in twenty years. But nothing could have prepared her for her encounter with her eight-year-old cousin, Citizen, a former child soldier, and for the shocking truth of what he has done.
Reconstructing Womanhood, Reconstructing Feminism: Writings on Black Women
Reconstructing Womanhood, Reconstructing Feminism was the first British feminist anthology to examine concepts of womanhood and feminism within the context of ‘race’ and ethnicity. Challenging contemporary feminist theory, the book highlights ways in which constructions of womanhood have traditionally excluded black women’s experience, and proposes a reconsideration of terms such as ‘feminist’.
Shakespeare, Race and Performance
Late summer and autumn 2016, Delia’s work on Shakespeare continued.
She joined the London Book Fair delegation to China and spoke at The Shanghai International Book Fair and at various events in Beijing, including the Beijing Book Fair’s Cultural Industries Forum.
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English Pen
Another literary project that I enjoyed working on was the English Pen’s Anti-Racism Audit(https://www.englishpen.org). And, an off-shoot of that consultancy work, an engaging Writer’s Event, chaired by Dean Atta for Scottish Pen’s Black Writer’s Group!
