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Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah (né Springer; 15 April 1958 – 7 December 2023) was a British writer, dub poet, actor, musician and professor of poetry and creative writing. He was included in The Times list of Britain's top 50 post-war writers in 2008.
‘Talking Turkeys’ writer and activist was diagnosed with a brain tumour eight weeks ago Tributes pour in for Talking Turkeys poet Benjamin Zephaniah after he dies ‘with wife by his side ...
Earlier this year, Deadline revealed that his memoir, Life and The Life And Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah, was being developed for television.Zephaniah left school at the age of 13 unable to read ...
Zephaniah – full name Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah – was born in Handsworth, Birmingham on 15 April 1958. His father was a postman from Barbados, while his mother was a nurse from Jamaica.
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Among those paying tribute to the late poet was his Peaky Blinders co-star Cillian Murphy.
In the article entitled "A Postcolonial Approach to Contemporary Refugee Literature: Benjamin Zephaniah's Refugee Boy", Sercan Hamza Bağlama points out that the novel "fictionalises the refugee experience in a 'strange' land and exposes the traumatic effects of war and politics upon innocent people through its 14-year-old Eritrean-Ethiopian protagonist, Alem Kelo, who has fled the war and ...
Poet Benjamin Zephaniah, who also acted on shows including Peaky Blinders, died on Thursday, eight weeks after getting diagnosed with a brain tumor. He was 65. “It is with great sadness and ...