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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo have been named the joint winners of the 2019 Booker Prize after the judges broke their rules by declaring a tie. Atwood's The Testaments, the Canadian ...
The BBC has apologised for referring to Booker Prize joint-winner Bernardine Evaristo as "another author" without naming her directly. Evaristo became the first black woman to win the prestigious ...
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 ...
Yep, ageism is still targeting women in 2020, and award-winning author Bernardine Evaristo has just given her honest views on how this creates pressures for women. “Do you believe it’s never ...
An adaptation of Bernardine Evaristo’s 2013 novel exploring the life of older members of Britain’s Caribbean community ...
Bernardine Evaristo released the list of writers to mark International Women's Day and books by the authors will be available in Bristol libraries. Words Of Colour organised the scheme in a bid to ...
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 ...