23. ilb 06. – 16.09.2023
Portrait Candace Allen
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Candace Allen

Candace Allen was born in Boston, USA, in 1950. She studied at Harvard and New York and worked in the Hollywood film industry. After several screenplays she wrote her first novel »Valaida« (2004), which is the biography of the Afro-American jazz trumpeter Valaida Snow. The author lives in London.

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Bibliographie

Valaida
Virago
London, 2004

Übersetzer: Christiane Wagler