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Paul Mendez


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Paul Mendez was born and raised in the Black Country. He now lives in London and is studying for an MA in Black British Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has been a performing member of two theatre companies, and worked as a voice actor, appearing on audiobooks by Andrea Levy, Paul Theroux and Ben Okri, most recently recording Ian Wright's A Life in Football for Hachette Audio. As a writer, he has contributed to the Times Literary Supplement and the Brixton Review of Books. Rainbow Milk is his debut novel.
 


Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Novels
   Rainbow Milk (2020)
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Award nominations
2021 Desmond Elliott Prize (nominee) : Rainbow Milk
2021 British Book Award Debut Book of the Year (shortlist) : Rainbow Milk


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Our Evenings (2024)
Alan Hollinghurst
"This sublime novel - classic Hollinghurst in everything but point of view - could not be timelier."
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Here Again Now (2022)
Okechukwu Nzelu
"Departing from the lighthearted humour of his debut, Nzelu's follow-up is a solemn, elegiac take on the unpredictabilities of the heart and the body, the vicissitudes of the ageing process, and the love that survives loss."
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Assembly (2021)
Natasha Brown
"Assembly captures the sickening weightlessness a Black British woman, who has been obedient to and complicit with the capitalist system, experiences as she makes life decisions under pressure from the hegemony. Stripped back to prose poetry and at times plainly essayistic, this is a bold and elegant statement, all the more powerful for its brevity."

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