Adebayo, Diran

Grew up in multicultural north London. On a won scholarship, he studied at Malvern College ( Worcestershire ), graduated from the Law Faculty of Oxford University . He worked as a reporter for The Voice , on the BBC radio and television. He made his debut with an autobiographical novel Variety of Black ( 1996 ), which was a success and received several major awards. Led a column in the newspaper New Nation , constantly published in the newspapers The Guardian , The Independent , the magazine The New Statesman . Wrote the script for the documentary Out of Africa for BBC Television ( 2005 ). He compiled several anthologies of modern prose of Great Britain and countries of the British Commonwealth. Working on the third novel.

He lives in London. His older brother is a writer, journalist, radio host, Dotun Adebayo, holder of the Order of the British Empire (b. 1960 ).

• Black / Some Kind of Black ( 1996 , reissue 1997 ; Saga Prize , rated by Author's Club , best novel of the year, Writers Guild Award for new author of the year, Betty Trask award , long Booker Prize )
• My Once Upon a Time ( 2000 )

Member of the Royal Literary Society , National Arts Council . In 2003 , the Evening Standard newspaper called the writer one of the 100 most influential residents of London.

• Write Black, write British Post / Colonial to Black British literature / Kadkija Sesay, ed. Hertford: Hansib, 2005
• Twenty-first-century “black” British writers / R. Victoria Arana, ed. Detroit: Gale, 2009
• Matthias D. Neue alte Welt und altes neues Ich. Diffusion migrationsbeding Identitätsentwürfe in veränderten kulturgeografischen Zusammenhängen; eine Analyze zu Romanen von Andrea Levy, Meera Syal, Diran Adebayo und Hanif Kureishi. Trier: Trier Wiss. Verl., 2011

• On the British Council website
• Personal site
• On the IMDB website