JS Tennant

““Tennant is an amiable, erudite writer who shares sides to Cuba few of us have seen before””

— Jon Lee Anderson on 'Mrs Gargantua'

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JS Tennant is from North Yorkshire and has been a ghostwriter, a translator and a speech-writer. He has worked for Dalkey Archive Press and PEN International. He was formerly poetry editor at The White Review and writes for the Guardian, Observer, Gatopardo, Irish Times, Times Literary Supplement, New Statesman and other places.

James has been shortlisted for the Fitzcarraldo Essay Prize and Eccles Centre and Hay Festival Writer’s Award. He was previously a Trustee of Modern Poetry in Translation. 

James is co-author (with Richard Hollis) of Cuba ’62: Preludes to a World Crisis. A second book about Cuba, Mrs Gargantua, is forthcoming from William Collins: it was the first English-language entry to have won the Michael Jacobs Award from the Gabriel García Márquez Foundation for Journalism.

Published works