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Alex Wheatle (Alex Alphonso Wheatle) was born on 3 January, 1963 in London, United Kingdom, is a British writer (born 1963). Discover Alex Wheatle's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 61 years old?

Popular As Alex Alphonso Wheatle
Occupation Novelist
Age 61 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 3 January, 1963
Birthday 3 January
Birthplace London, United Kingdom
Nationality United Kingdom

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1963

Alex Alphonso Wheatle MBE (born 3 January 1963) is a British novelist, who was sentenced to a term of imprisonment after the 1981 Brixton riot in London.

Born in 1963 in London to Jamaican parents, Wheatle spent much of his childhood in a Shirley Oaks Children's Home.

At the age of 16, he was a founding member of the Crucial Rocker sound system; his DJ name was Yardman Irie.

He wrote lyrics about everyday life in Brixton, south London.

1980

By 1980, Wheatle was living in a social services hostel in Brixton, and he participated in the 1981 Brixton riots and their aftermath.

While serving his resulting sentence, he read authors such as Chester Himes, Richard Wright, C. L. R. James and John Steinbeck.

Wheatle's cellmate, a Rastafari, was the one who encouraged Wheatle to start reading books and care about his education.

He features aspects of his life in his books, such as East of Acre Lane characters Yardman Irie and Jah Nelson.

1999

He received the London Arts Board New Writers Award in 1999 for his debut novel Brixton Rock, which was later adapted for the stage and performed at the Young Vic in July 2010.

He wrote and performed Uprising, a one-man play based on his own life at Tara Arts Studios, Wandsworth, London.

2006

Wheatle has since spoken about the Brixton riots, most prominently in the 2006 BBC programme Battle for Brixton.

His early books are based on his life in Brixton as a teenager and his time in social services' care.

2008

In the Queen's Birthday Honours 2008, Wheatle was awarded the MBE for services to literature.

2011

In 2011, he took Uprising on tour and performed it at the Writing On The Wall Festival, Liverpool, the Oxford Playhouse, the Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, the Ilkley Playhouse and the Albany Theatre, Deptford.

2012

The play re-toured theatres and literature festivals in 2012, marking the 50th year of Jamaican Independence.

Wheatle lives in London.

He is a member of English PEN, and he now visits various institutions facilitating creative writing classes and making speeches.

He has also narrated an audio guide to the streets of Brixton.

2016

His young-adult novel Liccle Bit was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal in 2016.

His 2016 book Crongton Knights won the 50th Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.

S. F. Said, one of the judging panel, said of the book: "Wheatle's writing is poetic, rhythmic and unique, remaking the English language with tremendous verve. Though Crongton is his invention, it resonates with many urban situations, not only in Britain but around the world. Crongton Knights is a major novel from a major voice in British children's literature."

2020

Wheatle's life story features in Alex Wheatle, the fourth film in Small Axe, a 2020 anthology of five films by Steve McQueen about the West Indian community in the UK during the 1970s and 1980s.

Alex Wheatle depicts Wheatle's life up to and just after the Brixton uprising.

Wheatle's books have also been translated into French, Italian, Urdu, Welsh, German, and Japanese.