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 a British writer. He was formerly poetry editor at The White Review and also worked for Dalkey Archive Press, PEN International, as a ghostwriter, translator and speech-writer. James has written for the Guardian, FT Weekend magazine, The Economist, Gatopardo, London Review of Books, Irish Times, Times Literary Supplement and the New Statesman, among other places.

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

Tennant 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.

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