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Benjamin Zephaniah
Categories:
Contemporary,
General Fiction,
Global Majority Theatre and Performance,
Plays for 11-18 Year Olds,
Plays for 11+,
Plays: 20th Century,
Plays: 21st Century,
Playwriting,
Political Ideologies,
PSHE,
Race & Ethnicity Studies,
Set Texts: Drama,
Set Texts: Drama,
Set Texts: English,
Set Texts: English Literature
Foreword:
Biography
A high-profile international author with an enormous breadth of appeal, Benjamin Zephaniah was perhaps best known for his performance poetry with a political edge for adults and ground-breaking performance poetry for children. Alongside his poetry he created novels and plays, wrote and performed music and had a recurring role as preacher Jeremiah Jesus in the BBC series Peaky Blinders. In his novels for young people, which include Face, Refugee Boy, Gangsta Rap and Teacher’s Dead, Zephaniah tackled vital themes that resonate as much today as they did upon their first publication.