We were a biracial family in a white area... 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.

Bernardine Evaristo is the celebrated writer and activist ... Evaristo talked about what it was like growing up in a bi-racial family; why she never thought about becoming a writer; how she ...

If you thought Bernardine Evaristo’s impact on the publishing ... documenting the journalist’s trip to Eritrea to meet her family for the first time at the age of 30, and Amryl Johnson ...

“I wanted to write a book that had as many black British women in it as possible,” explains Bernardine ... I come from a large family of eight kids and when each of us reached the age ...

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 ...

Anything that brings the great Lennie James and Sharon D Clarke to our screens demands attention, but this BBC adaptation of Bernardine Evaristo ... whether Barry’s family has sussed him.

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 ...

The series, called Black Britain: Writing Back, has seen each of the six titles republished with an introduction by Evaristo and a ... British museums and into a family home haunted by past ...

Evaristo’s 2014 novel tells the story of a ... Barry has big choices to make that will force his whole family to question their own futures.” Exploring Britain’s older Caribbean community ...

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 ...