Updated at November 21, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Andrea Levy |
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Birthdate | March 07, 1956 |
Birth Place | England |
Age (in 2024) | 68 Years Old |
Zodiac | Pisces |
Occupation | Novelist |
Andrea Levy is best known as Novelist who has born on March 07, 1956 in England. Currently, Andrea Levy is 68 years, 8 months and 14 days old. Andrea Levy will celebrate 69th birthday on Friday, 7th of March 2025. Below the countdown to Andrea Levy upcoming birthday.
English author and novelist who is best known for her books Small Island in 2004 and The Long Song in 2010. She is also known for having won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2004.
She originally studied textile design and weaving at Middlesex Polytechnic school. She started her career as a costume assistant, working for the BBC and Royal Opera House. She started writing in her mid thirties and gained international attention in 1994 when she released her first novel Every Light in the House Burnin'.
She has won several awards for her writing including the Walter Scott Prize in 2011, the Man Booker Prize in 2010, the Commonwealth Writers Prize in 2005, and the Whitbreak Book of the Year award in 2004.
She was born in London and was raised by Jamaican parents. She married Bill Mayblin.
Other novelists who have also been awarded the Orange Prize for Fiction include Lauren Liebenberg, Madeline Miller, and Zadie Smith.
Andrea Levy is 68 years old today.
Andrea Levy was born on March 07, 1956 in England.
Andrea Levy zodiac sign is Pisces.
Andrea Levy was best known as Novelist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Andrea Levy's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1951 | Korean War: Operation Ripper: United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgway begin an assault against Chinese forces. |
1951 | Iranian prime minister Ali Razmara is assassinated by Khalil Tahmasebi, a member of the Islamic fundamentalist Fada'iyan-e Islam, inside a mosque in Tehran. |
1965 | Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers is brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama. |
1967 | The Majelis Permusyawaratan Rakyat Sementara (MPRS), Indonesia's provisional parliament, revoked Sukarno's mandate as President of Indonesia. |
1968 | Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnamese military begin Operation Truong Cong Dinh to root out Viet Cong forces from the area surrounding Mỹ Tho. |
1971 | Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, political leader of then East Pakistan (present day-Bangladesh), delivers his historic 7th March speech in the Racecourse Field (Now Suhrawardy Udyan) in Dhaka. |
1986 | Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor. |
1987 | Lieyu massacre: Taiwanese military massacre of 19 unarmed Vietnamese refugees at Donggang, Lieyu, Kinmen. |
1989 | Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a fight over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses. |
1993 | The tugboat Thomas Hebert sank off the coast of New Jersey, USA. |
2006 | The terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba coordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India. |
2007 | Reform of the House of Lords: The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected. |
2007 | Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 crashes at Adisutjipto International Airport in the Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, killing 21 people. |
2009 | The Real Irish Republican Army kills two British soldiers and injures two other soldiers and two civilians at Massereene Barracks, the first British military deaths in Northern Ireland since the end of The Troubles. |
2021 | At least 105 die and 600 are injured in the 2021 Bata explosions in Bata, Equatorial Guinea. |
1984 | The birth of Lindsay McCaul, American singer-songwriter |
1985 | The birth of Andre Fluellen, American football player |
1985 | The birth of Cameron Prosser, Australian swimmer |
1985 | The birth of Gerwyn Price, Welsh darts player |
1986 | The birth of Ben Griffin, Australian footballer |
1987 | The birth of Hatem Ben Arfa, French footballer |
1987 | The birth of Niclas Bergfors, Swedish ice hockey player |
1988 | The birth of Larry Asante, American football player |
1991 | The birth of Michele Rigione, Italian footballer |
1994 | The birth of Chase Kalisz, American swimmer |
1994 | The birth of Jordan Pickford, English footballer |
1995 | The birth of Jerome Binnom-Williams, English footballer |
1995 | The birth of Aboubakar Kamara, French footballer |
1996 | The birth of Liam Donnelly, Northern Irish footballer |
1998 | The birth of Amanda Gorman, American poet and activist |
2012 | The death of Ravi, Indian director and composer (b. 1926) |
2012 | The death of Włodzimierz Smolarek, Polish footballer and manager (b. 1957) |
2013 | The death of Peter Banks, English guitarist and songwriter (b. 1947) |
2013 | The death of Damiano Damiani, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1922) |
2013 | The death of Frederick B. Karl, American lieutenant and politician (b. 1924) |
2013 | The death of Claude King, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1923) |
2014 | The death of Anatoly Borisovich Kuznetsov, Russian actor and director (b. 1930) |
2014 | The death of Ned O'Gorman, American poet and educator (b. 1929) |
2014 | The death of Victor Shem-Tov, Israeli lawyer and politician, 8th Israeli Minister of Health (b. 1915) |
2015 | The death of G. Karthikeyan, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1949) |
2015 | The death of F. Ray Keyser, Jr., American lawyer and politician, 72nd Governor of Vermont (b. 1927) |
2015 | The death of Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Japanese author and illustrator (b. 1935) |
2016 | The death of Adrian Hardiman, Irish lawyer and judge (b. 1951) |
2016 | The death of Leonard Berney, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp liberator (b. 1920) |
2017 | The death of Lynne Stewart, American attorney and activist (b. 1939) |
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