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Ian Thomson, “an author of great range and sensibility” (Guardian), is an award-winning biographer, reporter, translator and literary critic. His first important book, Bonjour Blanc: A Journey Through Haiti (1992), was considered a “great and abiding classic” by the film director Jonathan Demme. His biography of Primo Levi, Primo Levi: A Life (2002), took 10 years to write and won the Royal Society of Literature’s W.H.Heinemann Award. In 2005 Ian Thomson returned to the West Indies to write The Dead Yard: Tales of Modern Jamaica (2009). Banned in Jamaica for political reasons, the book was awarded the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize and the Dolman Travel Book Award. Ian Thomson has edited Articles of Faith: The Collected Tablet Journalism of Graham Greene (2006), and contributed a short story to Kingston Noir (2012). His latest book, Dante’s Divine Comedy (2018), was a Financial Times and Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year. More at www.ianthomson.info