Shola von Reinhold

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Shola von Reinhold is a Scottish writer. Their debut novel, LOTE (2020), was published by Jacaranda Books during their #Twentyin2020 campaign, an initiative to "publish 20 titles by 20 Black British writers in one year".[1] LOTE won the Republic of Consciousness Prize and the James Tait Memorial Prize.

Work[]

LOTE 's protagonist Mathilda Adamarola is a writer who sets out to recover "forgotten artistic and literary figures of the past", whom they call "Transfixions”.[2][3] Mathilda's "Transfixtions" include real and fictional figures, including "1920s aesthete and socialite Stephen Tennant and the Bright Young Things", and Roberte Horth, an early 20th century writer from French Guiana who lived in Paris.[3] In the National Portrait Gallery archive, Mathilda encounters Hermia Drumm, a Black Scottish poet.[4] Mathilda's approach to understanding Drumm's life and work relates to processes of "literary recovery" practiced by "feminist scholars in the 1970s and 1980s who sought to correct the male biases of the British literary canon."[2] In the novel, decadence, glamour or luxury are forms of "resistance [...] an opposition to the Whiteness that has always told Black people that they are too ornamented",[3][5][6] with the protagonists identifying how "this prejudice has its roots in colonialist contempt for African culture".[7]

Reading Scotland filmmaker Jamie Crewe to create a short film inspired by the book which premiered at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in 2021.[8]

Von Reinhold has also written and been interviewed about the phenomenon of the suppression of Black avant-garde writers in the UK.[9][10][11]

Awards and honours[]

Selected bibliography[]

  • LOTE, 2020

References[]

  1. ^ "#TwentyIn2020: Black Writers, British Voices". Jacaranda Books. Retrieved 2021-12-17.
  2. ^ a b "LOTE – Shola von Reinhold". Retrieved 2021-12-17.
  3. ^ a b c Thomas, Skye Arundhati (2020-06-17). "Glamour and Resistance in Shola von Reinhold's 'Lote'". Frieze. Retrieved 2021-12-17.
  4. ^ "Shola von Reinhold's 'LOTE'". The White Review. Retrieved 2021-12-17.
  5. ^ "Interview: Shola von Reinhold". The Modernist Review. 2020-07-03. Retrieved 2021-12-17.
  6. ^ Dytor, Frankie. "Interview with Shola von Reinhold: 'It felt like Hermia Fabulated herself out of the archive'". Lucy Writers Platform. Retrieved 2021-12-17.
  7. ^ "LOTE by Shola von Reinhold review – a celebration of eccentricity". the Guardian. 2020-06-10. Retrieved 2021-12-17.
  8. ^ "Watch online: Reading Scotland: Shola von Reinhold, Frock Consciousness". www.edbookfest.co.uk. Retrieved 2021-12-17.
  9. ^ "Opinion: What happened to Britain's black avant-garde fiction writers?". The Independent. 2019-05-14. Retrieved 2021-12-17.
  10. ^ "In Conversation with Shola von Reinhold". Kojo London. Retrieved 2021-12-17.
  11. ^ Abudu, Kojo (2021). "In Conversation with Shola von Reinhold". Luncheon Magazine. 11.
  12. ^ "LOTE by Shola von Reinhold wins the Republic of Consciousness Prize!". Jacaranda Books. Retrieved 2021-12-17.
  13. ^ "Von Reinhold and Ní Ghríofa win £10k James Tait Black prizes | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 2021-12-17.
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