Andrea Levy (7 March 1956 – 14 February 2019) was an English novelist. She was born in London to Jamaican parents. Levy's novels related to British Jamaicans and how they negotiate racial, cultural and national identities. Her best known works were "Small Island" (2004) and "The Long Song" (2010). Levy won the Orange Prize for Fiction, Whitbread Book of the Year and Commonwealth Writers Prize.