they used to smash our windows in, on a regular basis. Born in 1959, Evaristo grew up in South-East London. “My father was from Nigeria,” she says. “He came over in 1949. And my mother was a ...

Natalie A Carter and Melissa Cummings-Quarry, founders of Black Girls Book Club, sit down with Booker Prize winner Bernardine ... life throws at them”. The most astonishing thing about Evaristo?

“I wanted to write a book that had as many black British women in it as possible,” explains Bernardine, “because there were so few of us getting published. And so we just weren't really ...

Girl, Woman, Other author Bernardine Evaristo just appeared on a brilliant Desert Island Discs episode, where she shared her life experiences ... sharing more of her personal experiences and ...

The festival was inaugurated by guest of honour and the Booker Prize winner of 2019, Bernardine Evaristo (Girl ... Chatterjee and his World (Vintage) a biography of one of Bengal’s most ...

The series, called Black Britain: Writing Back, has seen each of the six titles republished with an introduction by Evaristo and a ... health system to inside the life of a working-class Black ...

Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo inaugurated the Kolkata Literary Meet on Tuesday, January 21, 2025. In her inaugural speech, she highlighted the importance of literary meets and how they ...

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Bernardine Evaristo, Jolyon Rubinstein and Harriett Gilbert discuss books by Leone Ross, William Boyd and Cyril Hare. From 2018. Show more Writer Bernardine Evaristo and comedian Jolyon Rubinstein ...

"It's hard to think of a better casting choice than the great Lennie James" as Barrington Walker in BBC One's adaptation of Bernardine Evaristo's ... the story of a "good life built on lies ...

Bernardine Evaristo and more. The 2019 Booker-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other is one of Britain’s most moving and insightful writers and her life – a childhood affected by racism of those ...

Candice Carty-Williams, author of the fastest-selling debut novel of 2019, Queenie, talks to Bernardine Evaristo who won the ... of a young black woman whose life seems to be spinning out of ...