Description: Bernardine Evaristo - writer, author, novelist, activist, Girl, Woman, Other, UK,
British writer Bernardine Evaristo is the author of ten books and numerous writings that span the genres of fiction, verse fiction, short fiction, non-fiction, poetry, essays, literary criticism, journalism, and radio and theatre drama. Bernardine’s novel Girl, Woman, Other won the Booker Prize 2019. She was the first black woman and black British person to win it in its fifty year history. The novel also won many other prizes including the British Book Award’s Fiction Book of the Year & Author of the Year,
Her writing and projects are based around her interest in the African diaspora. Her first non-fiction book, Manifesto: On Never Giving Up, was published by Penguin UK in October 2021 & by Grove Atlantic USA, January 2022.
Her second non-fiction book, Look Again: Feminism (Tate Galleries/Tate Publishing 2021) is a survey of the representation of women of colour in British art, responding to a major rehang of the galleries in Tate Britain, the National Collection of British Art, launched in 2023. In 2020 she collaborated with Pierpaolo Piccioli, Creative Director of Valentino, on his Collezione Milano collection, writing poetic text to accompany photographs of the collection by the photographer Liz Johnson Artur. This was publ