ABOUT ME
Born in 1963 Alex Wheatle is the acclaimed author of six novels.
Brixton Rock
East Of Acre Lane
The Seven Sisters
Checkers
Island Songs
The Dirty South
Awarded an MBE for services to literature in the Queen Birthday honours list in 2008, Alex is now working on a children’s fantasy novel titled THE CROWN PRINCE OF SALAGA and is also working as a consultant to a screen adaptation of his novel, East Of Acre Lane.
CONTRIBUTOR
Alex Wheatle
Alex Wheatle was born in 1963 to Jamaican parents living in London. He spent most of his childhood in a children's home which he left at 14 to live in a hostel in Brixton. At 18 he was involved in the Brixton uprising and went to prison for 3 months. On his release, he continued to perform as a DJ and MC under the name Yardman Irie, moving in the early '90s onto the performance poetry circuit as the Brixton Bard. His second novel, East Of Acre Lane, won the London New Writers Award (2000) The Dirty South is his sixth novel. He received an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in 2008.
