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Bernardine Anne Mobolaji Evaristo OBE FRSL FRSA (born 28 May 1959) is a British author and academic. Her novel Girl, Woman, Other jointly won the Booker Prize in 2019 alongside Margaret Atwood's The Testaments, making her the first Black woman to win the Booker.
Aug 1, 2024 · In 2019, Bernardine Evaristo was announced as the joint winner of the Booker Prize, along with Margaret Atwood, for her book Girl, Woman, Other. She made history because she was the first Black woman to win the prize.
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Mar 13, 2021 · When author David Shannon's debut novel was accepted by a leading literary agent, it came as a big surprise - not just to him, but also to his wife, the Booker Prize winner Bernardine...
Dec 13, 2019 · Earlier this fall, the Anglo-Nigerian author Bernardine Evaristo made history when she became the first black woman to win the Man Booker Prize for her ninth novel, Girl, Woman, Other. In an...
- Girl, Woman, Other (Hamish Hamilton, 2019), Novel
- Hello Mum (Hamish Hamilton, 2010), Novella
- Blonde Roots (Penguin, 2008), Novel
- Soul Tourists (Penguin, 2005), Novel
- The Emperor’s Babe (Penguin, 2001), Novel
- Lara (Angela Royal Publishing, 1997; Bloodaxe Books, 2009), Novel
- Island of Abraham (Peepal Tree, 1993), Poetry Collection
Teeming with life and crackling with energy—a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood. Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends and lovers, across the country and through the years. Joyfully polyphonic and vibrant...
A epistolary novella told in the voice of a 14 year old boy writing to his mother who lives on a London estate and gets into trouble, the 96-page Hello Mumis an exploration of gang violence. We follow the boy’s story as it “deepens our understanding of the context of his life and the decisions he makes that shapes it.” In its year of publication, E...
In her first fully-prose novel, which in 2009 was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and won the Orange Youth Panel Award, Africans enslave Europeans. It tells the story of a young white girl who, kidnapped from her home in England, is forced into slavery by her “Aphrikan” masters in the United Kingdom of Great Ambossa. The Orange Prize ca...
This 240-page novel, which mixes prose, poetry, prose-poetry, and scripts, follows a mismatched black British couple who go on a car journey in Europe and find themselves in the Middle East. Stanley Williams, angst-ridden banker and boffin, wonders whether there’s more to life than his daily nine-to-five grind. One night he’s dragged to a disco at ...
This coming-of-age verse novel, which won Evaristo an Arts Council England Writer’s Award in 2000 and a Nesta Fellowship Award in 2003, is about a black girl in Roman London, in 211 AD. A city of slum tenements and sumptuous villas, of orgy queens, drag queens and drama queens, Londinium is a place where the currency is often sex, where children go...
First published in 1997 and then expanded and re-published in 2009, Larais a semi-autobiographical verse novel, based on Evaristo’s family history. Set across three continents, seven generations and 150 years, it explores the eponymous Lara’s childhood as the biracial daughter of an Englishwoman and a Nigerian man in 60s and 70s London, and takes t...
Very little information is available on Evaristo’s debut book, this 64-page poetry collection, released by a publishing press that has been a homefor the best in Caribbean and Black British writing. For updates on Bernardine Evaristo’s work, visit her website: bevaristo.com. We will be bringing you a guide to all her projects as well.
Jul 2, 2020 · Nigerian-British writer, Bernardine Anne Mobolaji Evaristo, has been named the author of the year at the British Book awards, the first black writer to ever win the category.
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Evaristo is President of the Royal Society of Literature, Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University London, and an Honorary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. She received an OBE in 2020, and lives in London with her husband.
