Delia Jarrett-Macauley

Delia Jarrett-Macauley (born 1958) is a British writer, academic, and broadcaster of Sierra Leonean heritage, best known for her debut novel Moses, Citizen & Me (2005), which won the 2006 Orwell Prize for political writing—the first novel to receive the award—and her acclaimed biography The Life of Una Marson, 1905–65 (1998). She has also edited influential anthologies such as Reconstructing Womanhood, Reconstructing Feminism (1996) and taught at universities including Warwick, Birkbeck, and Leeds. Orwell Foundation, Caine Prize