“Anticolonial Novel” – Norman Lewis, James Aldridge
Norman Lewis (1908-2003)
Norman Lewis was born in 1908
into the family of a Welsh farm worker. At the beginning of World
War II he joined the British Armed Forces and was sent to Sicily.
After the war he worked as a journalist, and being deeply interested
in ethnography, he traveled all over the world. Soon he became well-
known as an author of travel books and articles. By the end of the
forties Lewis, already a professional author, wrote about eight
novels, some of which were masterful and emotional. In his youth,
Lewis was a great admirer of XIX century Russian classical literature.
Of the modern authors, his writings in both manner and
presentation bear the influence of Hemingway.
Lewis’ first novel was published in 1949. It was followed by
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