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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 ...
Natalie A Carter and Melissa Cummings-Quarry, founders of Black Girls Book Club, sit down with Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo to talk about writing Black women, having a slow burn career ...
“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. 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 ...
The series, called Black Britain: Writing Back, has seen each of the six titles republished with an introduction by Evaristo and a brand-new cover design by a Black British artist. There will also ...
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 ...