Rowen fernandez biography of william shakespeare
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Lit in Colour
Taking down barriers to a more representative English curriculum
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“Literature is a curator of our imaginations, and schools are the caretakers of our young people’s education.
They are currently being denied access to the glorious, outstanding and often ground-breaking narratives coming out of Britain's Black and Asian communities.”
Bernardine Evaristo, author
About Lit in Colour
Books create belonging. They help us see each other and understand one another. They shine a light on the world.
It’s vital that the books we read in our formative years reflect the rich diversity of the society we live in.
Lit in Colour was created in 2020 by Penguin Books UK and race equality think tank, The Runnymede Trust. At Penguin our mission is ‘we make books for everyone, because a book can change anyone’, yet we know that barely any young people are being given the opportunity to read and study books by Black, Asian and minority ethnic writers.
Through Lit in Colour our aim is to support schools in the UK to make the teaching and learning of English literature more inclusive. This includes commissioning research to better understand barriers and possible solutions, as well as pr
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Dr Edward Wilson-Lee
Publications, Links and Resources
CURRENT PROJECTS
General Editor, with Matthew Driscoll, José María Pérez Fernández, and Paul White, of a 2.1M word edition, translation and study of Hernando Colón's 'Libro de los Epitomes', a repository of knowledge about books from a lost sixteenth-century library. Under contract with Oxford University Press.
PUBLISHED BOOKS
A HISTORY OF WATER, being an account of a murder, an epic, and two visions of global history (William Collins, 2022). Available or forthcoming in Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Turkish, Korean and Ukranian translations.
with José María Pérez Fernández, Hernando Colón's New World of Books: Towards a Cartography of Knowledge (Yale University Press, 2021).
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library (William Collins, May 2018; Scribner, March 2019). Published or forthcoming in ten translations.
Shakespeare in Swahililand (William Collins--UK & Commonwealth, 2016; Farrar, Straus & Giroux--USA, 2016; Random House/btb--Germany, 2019). Order at Amazon.
ed., with José María Pérez Fernández, Translation and the Book Trade in Early Modern Europe (CUP, 2014). 'Introduction' (co-written wit
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Tag Archives: Shakespeare
Shakespeare Re-invented (5 to 7)
Posted onDecember 18, 2012byKeith Browning
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Shakespeare Re-invented (8-13)
Posted onDecember 17, 2012byKeith Browning
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