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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 ...
When we met with Bernardine Evaristo just days ... writing career that spans seven previous novels, poetry, theatre plays and journalism. Evaristo is Black British literary royalty – and ...
Bernardine Evaristo is an author and professor of creative writing at Brunel University London. Her 2019 novel Girl, Woman, Other won the Booker Prize. Revisiting Dillibe Onyeama's groundbreaking ...
In Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo traces the histories of 12 different characters in the U.K. over more than 100 years. With each new woman comes a distinctive perspective on feminism ...
“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 ...
After sharing 2019’s Booker Prize with the incredible Bernardine Evaristo, Margaret Atwood, who won for The Testaments, saluted her co-winner: “I would have thought I would have been too ...
Speaking on the Stylist Live Sessions podcast, the Booker Prize winner and author of Manifesto discussed how to be more wild, disobedient and daring in 2023. Bernardine Evaristo always aimed to ...
Girl, Woman, Other author Bernardine Evaristo just appeared on a brilliant Desert Island Discs episode, where she shared her life experiences. From her response to the criticism over her Booker ...
If you thought Bernardine Evaristo’s impact on the publishing industry was limited to her incredible books, think again. The series – which aims to correct the “historic bias” which ...
Candice Carty-Williams, author of the fastest-selling debut novel of 2019, Queenie, talks to Bernardine Evaristo who won the 2019 Booker Prize for Girl, Woman, Other. Show more A sparkling and ...