Young, Kerry

About Kerry Young

Official Homepage

Biography (British Council)

Biography (Bloomsbury)

Biography (Royal Literary Fund)

Reviews

White, Ashanti. “Show Me a Mountain.” Library Journal, vol. 142, no. 1, Jan. 2017

Sexton, Kathy. “Show Me a Mountain.” Booklist, vol. 113, no. 4, Oct. 2016

“Show Me a Mountain.” Kirkus Reviews, vol. 86, no. 20, Oct. 2016

Crapo, Trish. “A Girl Like You: Gloria.” Women’s Review of Books, vol. 31, no. 2, Mar. 2014

White, Ashanti. “Gloria.” Library Journal, vol. 138, no. 15, Sept. 2013

“Gloria.” Publishers Weekly, vol. 260, no. 20, May 2013

“Gloria.” Kirkus Reviews, vol. 81, no. 8, Apr. 2013

“Pao.” Kirkus Reviews, vol. 79, no. 13, Jul. 2011

Kinney, Meg. “Pao.” Booklist, vol. 107, no. 17, May 2011

Hollands, Neil. “Pao.” Library Journal, vol. 136, no. 6, Apr. 2011

“Pao.” Publishers Weekly, vol. 258, no. 14, Apr. 2011

Interviews

Wacker, Julian. “Outside the Boxes: An Interview with Kerry Young.” Wasafiri, vol. 32, no. 4, Dec. 2017

Criticism

Hogan, Dennis M. “‘And That Is Not How Jamaica Is’: Cultural Creolization, Optimism, and National Identity in Kerry Young’s Pao.” Anthurium, vol. 12, no. 1, 2015

Wilson, Kristine A. “'A Cloak That Looks like Help': US Intervention and the Neoliberal Turn in Kerry Young’s Pao.” Anthurium, vol. 12, no. 1, 2015

Prater, Tzarina T. “‘We Are Jamaicans. We Are Brothers’: History, Brotherhood, and Independence in Kerry Young’s Pao.” Anthurium, vol. 11, no. 2, 2014

Works

Novels

Show me a Mountain (2016)

Gloria (2013)

Pao (2011)

Essays/Articles/Non-Fiction/Short Stories

“Tomorrow Is Another Day.” Wasafiri, vol. 34, no. 4, Dec. 2019

With Carolyn Sanderson. Hometown Tales: Midlands (2018)

The Art of Youth Work (1999)

Audio and Audiovisual Material

Panel on New Fiction: Kirsty Logan, James Scudamore and Kerry Young. YouTube, 20 Mar. 2015

Kerry Young on her Novel Pao. BBC, 13 Jun. 2011

Kerry Young Talks about Pao. YouTube, 21 Apr. 2011

Kerry Young Explains How Writing Changes the Writer. Royal Literary Fund, undated