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Bernardine Evaristo: 'It's really important that all our stories get out there'

Bernardine Evaristo

Bernardine Evaristo, MBE, is the award-winning author of eight books of fiction and verse fiction that explore aspects of the African diaspora. Her novel Girl, Woman, Other made her the first black woman to win the Booker Prize in 2019, as well winning the Fiction Book of the Year Award at the British Book Awards in 2020, where she also won Author of the Year, and the Indie Book Award. She also became the first woman of colour and black British writer to reach No.1 in the UK paperback fiction chart in 2020. Her writing spans reviews, essays, drama and radio, and she has edited and guest-edited national publications, including The Sunday Time's Style magazine. Her other awards and honours include an MBE in 2009. Bernardine is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University, London, and Vice Chair of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in London with her husband. www.bevaristo.com

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Articles

A diverse curriculum will help kids grow emotionally and intellectually

Booker Prize-winner Bernardine Evaristo on why she is supporting Lit in Colour, a campaign from Penguin and the Runnymede Trust to support schools to diversify the teaching of English literature.
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Features

‘It was the first time I saw myself in literature’: Penguin authors on the book they wish they read in school

To mark our Lit in Colour campaign, Bernardine Evaristo, Diana Evans, Avni Doshi and more reflect on the literature they wished they'd discovered back in the classroom.
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Events

Bernardine Evaristo: Manifesto On Never Giving Up, 3 October 2021

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