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The Dead Yard: Tales of Modern Jamaica

by Ian Thomson

RSL Ondaatje · 2010 · Winner
NonfictionISBN 9781568586564

Award History

AwardYearStatus
RSL Ondaatje Prize2010Winner

About the Author

Ian Thomson FRSL (born 1961) is an English author and biographer best known for his definitive biography Primo Levi: A Life (2002), which won the Royal Society of Literature's W. H. Heinemann Award, and his reportage The Dead Yard: Tales of Modern Jamaica (2009), recipient of the RSL Ondaatje Prize and Dolman Travel Book Award. Read more →

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