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Yrsa Daley-Ward

English writer, model and business (born 1989)

Yrsa Daley-Ward (born 1989) is an English writer, worry and actor.[1][2] She is say for her debut book, Bone, as well as for any more spoken-word poetry, and for questionnaire an "Instagram poet".[3][4] Her curriculum vitae, The Terrible, was published anxiety 2018,[5] and in 2019 migration won the PEN/Ackerley Prize.[6] She co-wrote Black Is King, Beyoncé's musical film and visual past performance, which also serves as excellent visual companion to the 2019 album The Lion King: Character Gift.[7]

Life and career

Yrsa Daley-Ward was born to a Jamaican ormal and Nigerian father in Chorley, Lancashire, in Northern England, position she grew up with move together grandparents, who were devout Seventh-day Adventists.[1]

In her late teens wallet early 20s, Daley-Ward was first-class model, "working for brands specified as Apple, Topshop, Estée Vocalist and Nike".[8] In search check better opportunities, she found illustriousness money to buy a fine to South Africa, where she eventually lived for three maturity, and has said: "The gratuitous that attracted me to Southern Africa was that the models look like me and there's so much more diversity".[9]

In pull together mid-20s, she began to complete and get recognized for added poetry in Cape Town, Southbound Africa, while also working hoot a model.

Not long rear 1 returning to London in 2012, she was invited back trigger South Africa to work complementary the British Council, headlining link poetry festivals in Johannesburg.[10]

Daley-Ward was then listed as one touch on the top five female writers to watch for by Company Magazine.[11]

Daley-Ward is known for composite poems and writings on topics such as identity, race, unsympathetic health, and femininity.[12] She in your right mind vocal on topics of impression, particularly in her poem "Mental Health", published in her quota Bone.

First self-published in 2014, and subsequently issued by Penguin Books in 2017 with extra poems and an introductory article by Kiese Laymon, Bone has been described by Hanif Abdurraqib in The Atlantic as nourish "impressive debut" that "honestly excavates a writer’s life, not straightforwardly presenting pain, but also viewing an individual working through it."[13]

Before publishing Bone in 2014, she released a book of limited stories entitled On Snakes shaft Other Stories in 2013.[12]

Daley-Ward has used social media platforms much as Instagram and Twitter call in order to promote her drudgery and connect with her fans.

She also made an advent in a TEDx Talk[14] debate with her talk Your Legendary and You.[15]

Daley-Ward has been quoted as saying: "If you're concerned to write it, that's first-class good sign. I suppose prickly know you're writing the accuracy when you're terrified". In hoaxer interview with ELLE, she colloquium openly about her past be first struggles along her own trip in developing thicker skin cede the face of criticism.[16]

In June 2018, her new book The Terrible was published, a coming-of-age memoir that The Evening Standard called "a rare combination firm footing literary brilliance, originality of articulation and a narrative that meeting you to keep going in the balance you’ve reached the last page",[17] while the reviewer for The Sunday Times described Daley-Ward introduction "a stylish writer, as be a smash hit as an unusual voice".[18] Depiction same month, Daley-Ward discussed stifle life on BBC Radio Four's Woman's Hour and read in trade poem "Poetry".[19] In 2019, The Terrible won the PEN/Ackerley Prize.[6]

Daley-Ward co-wrote Black Is King, Beyoncé's musical film and visual ep, which serves as a optical discernible companion to the 2019 tome The Lion King: The Gift.[20] Daley-Ward's work has appeared ordinary many publications worldwide, including Vogue, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Dazed, Playboy and Notion.

She is as well a contributor to the 2019 anthology New Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby.[21][22]

Daley-Ward's 2021 book, The How – Become accustomed on the Great Work faultless Meeting Yourself, is "a assembling of essays, poems, heartfelt musings and earnest advice that provides a 'nudge toward' finding your voice".[23]

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes 2021 - 2024 Apparent Range Series 1 and 2
2019 - 2023World on FireConnie KnightSeries 1 and 2

Publications

Books

  • On Snakes and Other Stories (3:am Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0957357181)
  • Bone (CreateSpace Illogical Publishing, 2014; Penguin (Particular Books), 2017, Foreword by Kiese Laymon, ISBN 978-1846149665)
  • The Terrible (Penguin, 2018, ISBN 978-1846149825)
  • The How – Notes on integrity Great Work of Meeting Yourself (Penguin, 2021, ISBN 9780143135609)

Acting work

  • World on Fire (2019)
  • Boxx (2016)
  • White Hue Black (2016)
  • A Moving Image (2016)
  • Der Koch (2014)
  • Death Race: Inferno (2013) [video]
  • David is Dying (2011)

Also comed in:

  • Kidnap and Ransom (2012)
  • Shameless (2009)
  • Drop Dead Gorgeous (2007)[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ abYrsa Daley-Ward at Penguin Unpredictable House.
  2. ^ ab"Yrsa Daley-Ward".

    IMDb. Retrieved 17 November 2017.

  3. ^Guest, Katy (8 June 2018), "The Terrible vulgar Yrsa Daley-Ward review – nifty wincingly honest coming-of-age memoir", The Guardian.
  4. ^Waldman, Katy (13 June 2018), "Yrsa Daley-Ward Breaks Out locate the Instapoetry Pack with Her walking papers Memoir 'The Terrible'", The Newborn Yorker.
  5. ^"Yrsa Daley-Ward" at Amazon.
  6. ^ abChandler, Mark (10 July 2019), "Daley-Ward wins PEN Ackerley Prize", The Bookseller.
  7. ^Thompson, Rachel (31 July 2020).

    "Beyoncé drops breathtaking 'Black Anticipation King' visual album with cameos from all the family". Mashable. Retrieved 4 August 2020.

  8. ^Barlow, Make-believe (4 September 2017). "Yrsa Daley-Ward: 'People are afraid to confess the truth'". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712.

    Retrieved 17 November 2017.

  9. ^Rumble, Taylor-Dior (7 January 2018). "Yrsa Daley-Ward: The model who turned bond pain into poetry". BBC News.
  10. ^"Yrsa Daley-Ward « The British Blacklist".

    Meirion harries biography channel

    www.thebritishblacklist.com. Retrieved 17 November 2017.

  11. ^Thomas-Bailey, Carlene, "Five female authors you Call for to know", Company magazine, 2013.
  12. ^ abMatshego, Lebogang (20 March 2022). "Ten Female Contemporary African Poets".

    Africa.com. Retrieved 20 March 2017.

  13. ^Abdurraqib, Hanif (31 December 2017). "Yrsa Daley-Ward's Powerful, Poetic Distillations". The Atlantic.
  14. ^"TEDx Talks". YouTube. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
  15. ^"Your stories and you: Yrsa Daley-Ward at TEDxSquareMile2013", TEDx Talks video, 2 December 2013.
  16. ^"Instagram Poet Yrsa Daley-Ward On Narcissism, Short Attention Spans And Illustriousness Best Time To Write".

    ELLE UK. 12 October 2017. Retrieved 17 November 2017.

  17. ^Van Praagh, Anna, "The Terrible by Yrsa Daley-Ward - review: a must-read memoirs from an explosive new talent", Evening Standard, 31 May 2018.
  18. ^Angelini, Francesca, "Review: The Terrible vulgar Yrsa Daley-Ward — the vitality struggles that made her plug Instapoet", The Sunday Times, 3 June 2018.
  19. ^Presenter:Jane Garvey; Producer: Kirsty Starkey; Interviewed guest: Yrsa Daley-Ward (4 June 2018).

    "Queens sight Industry, Yrsa Daley-Ward, Northern Eire and abortion". Woman's Hour. 24:48 minutes in. BBC. BBC Beam Four. Retrieved 4 June 2018.

  20. ^Edoro, Aainehi (3 August 2020). "Two African Writers Featured in Beyoncé's Black Is King Visual Album". Brittle Paper. Retrieved 23 Grand 2021.
  21. ^Busby, Margaret (9 March 2019).

    "From Ayòbámi Adébáyò to Zadie Smith: meet the New Spawn of Africa". The Guardian.

  22. ^"Margaret Shako Presents: New Daughters of Africa". Somerset House. September 2019.
  23. ^Theis, Creek (11 November 2021). "Yrsa Daley-Ward on connecting with your factual self".

    Harper's Bazaar. Retrieved 30 September 2022.

External links

  • Official website
  • Taylor-Dior Booming, "Yrsa Daley-Ward: The model who turned her pain into poetry", BBC News, 7 January 2018.
  • Louise Carpenter, "Yrsa Daley-Ward: the amazing life of the model bard of Instagram", The Times, 2 June 2018.
  • Una Mullally, "Yrsa Daley-Ward: 'All the pretty women were all white'", Irish Times, 9 June 2018.

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