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Ferdinand Dennis (born 1956)〔("Ferdinand Dennis" ), British Council, Literature Matters.〕 is a writer, broadcaster, journalist and lecturer, who is Jamaican by birth but at the age of eight moved to England, where his parents had migrated in the late 1950s.〔Ferdinand Dennis, ("My father's island" ), ''The Guardian'', 10 June 2000.〕 Dr James Procter notes: "Perhaps as a result of his Caribbean background (a region probably marked more than any other by movements and migration), Dennis is a writer ultimately more concerned with routes than roots. This is foregrounded in much of his fictional work, notably his most recent and ambitious novel to date, ''Duppy Conqueror'' (1998), a novel which moves from 1930s Jamaica to postwar London and Liverpool, to Africa. Similarly, Dennis’ non-fiction centres on journeying rather than arrival, from ''Behind the Frontlines: Journey into Afro-Britain'' (1988) to ''Voices of the Crossing: The Impact of Britain on Writers from Asia, the Caribbean and Africa'' (2000)."〔 ==Biography== Ferdinand Dennis was born in Kingston, Jamaica,〔(Ferdinand Dennis author page ), HarperCollins.〕 and grew up in north Paddington, London,〔("Postmark Notting Hill: Running Down The Hill" ), ''Marxism Today'', September 1988, p. 9.〕 where he and his siblings – two brothers and a sister – relocated in 1964 to join their parents.〔 Dennis read sociology at Leicester University,〔 after which he was employed as an educational researcher in Handsworth, Birmingham.〔(Handsworth Alternative Scheme. )〕〔Ferdinand Dennis, ("Birmingham: Blades of Frustration" ) (from ''Beyond the Frontlines''), in Kwesi Owusu (ed.), ''Black British Culture and Society: A Text Reader'', p. 195.〕 He studied for a Master's degree at Birkbeck College, London University.〔 He received a Wingate Scholarship in 1995.〔("Mr Ferdinand Dennis" ), Wingate Scholarships.〕 He has lectured in Nigeria, and from 2003 to 2011 taught Creative and Media Writing courses at Middlesex University.〔Patsy Hickman, ("Following the Writer's Flame" ), National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE).〕 As a broadcaster, he has written and presented numerous talks and documentaries for BBC Radio 4〔(Conference Contributors ), NAWE, 2010.〕 – such as the series ''After Dread and Anger'' (1989),〔("After Dread and Anger" ), BBC Radio 4.〕 ''Journey Round My People'', for which he travelled in West Africa, ''Back To Africa'' (1990)〔("Back To Africa" ), Radio Listings.〕〔("Dear Mr. Ferdinand Dennis..." ), English 10: Writing Portfolio, Catholic Memorial High School, 2006-2007.〕 and ''Work Talk'' (1991)〔("Work Talk" ), Radio Listings.〕 – as well as a television programme about Africa for Channel 4. Dennis has also worked as a journalist for publications including ''Frontline'' and ''City Limits''.〔 His writing has been published in a range of magazines, newspapers and anthologies, among them ''The Guardian'', ''Granta'',〔(Ferdinand Dennis page ), ''Granta''.〕 ''Critical Quarterly''〔Dennis, F. (1999), ("The Black and White Museum" ), ''Critical Quarterly'', 41: 28–34. doi: 10.1111/1467-8705.00259. Wiley Online Library, 24 January 2003.〕 ''Black British Culture and Society: A Text Reader'' (ed. Kwesi Owusu, 2000), ''Hurricane Hits England: An Anthology of Writing About Black Britain'' (ed. Onyekachi Wambu, 2000), and ''IC3: The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain'' (2000).〔("IC3: the Penguin book of new black writing in Britain" ), WorldCat.〕 He is the author of three novels – ''The Sleepless Summer'' (1989), ''The Last Blues Dance'' (1996); and ''Duppy Conqueror'' (1998) – and two travelogues: ''Behind the Frontlines: Journey into Afro-Britain'' (1988) – his first book, which won the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize – and ''Back to Africa: A Journey'' (1992), in which he visited Cameroon, Ghana, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria and Senegal. With Naseem Khan, he co-edited ''Voices of the Crossing: The Impact of Britain on Writers from Asia, the Caribbean and Africa'' (2000). He also was a co-researcher (with Kole Omotoso and Alfred Zack-Williams) of the 1992 compilation ''West Africa Over 75 Years: selections from the raw material of history'', edited by Kaye Whiteman. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ferdinand Dennis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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