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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Face is a 1999 British novel by British-Jamaican author and poet Benjamin Zephaniah.It is about a young boy who suffers facial injuries in a joyriding accident. Face has also been adapted as a stage play. [1]
Benjamin Zephaniah, a British poet, political activist and actor who drew huge inspiration from his Caribbean roots, has died. Zephaniah died Thursday after being diagnosed with a brain tumor ...
Benjamin Zephaniah, a profound poet and actor who appeared on the hit series Peaky Blinders, has died. He was 65. His family announced the sad news through his official Instagram account on Dec. 7 ...