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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.
Benjamin Zephaniah. Jeremiah "Jimmy" Jesus (played by Benjamin Zephaniah) is a Jamaican born street preacher, who is friends with Thomas Shelby and the Peaky Blinders. He fought in the war alongside Tommy, and has been a close ally ever since. He is also the father of Isiah Jesus.
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.
Benjamin Zephaniah, a British poet, writer and actor who played the role of Jeremiah Jesus in “Peaky Blinders,” has died. He was 65. According to a statement posted to Zephaniah’s official ...
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 ...
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 ...
Benjamin Zephaniah, a British poet, political activist and actor who drew huge inspiration from his Caribbean roots, has died. ... Zephaniah, who was born in Birmingham in central England on April ...