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Bernardine Evaristo


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in London, The United Kingdom
May 28, 1959

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Bernardine Evaristo is the Anglo-Nigerian award-winning author of several books of fiction and verse fiction that explore aspects of the African diaspora: past, present, real, imagined. Her novel Girl, Woman, Other won the Booker Prize in 2019. Her writing also spans short fiction, reviews, essays, drama and writing for BBC radio. She is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University, London, and Vice Chair of the Royal Society of Literature. She was made an MBE in 2009. As a literary activist for inclusion Bernardine has founded a number of successful initiatives, including Spread the Word writer development agency (1995-ongoing); the Complete Works mentoring scheme for poets of colour (2007-2017) and the Brunel International African P ...more

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Girl, Woman, Other

4.26 avg rating — 262,988 ratings — published 2019 — 102 editions
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Mr Loverman

4.18 avg rating — 18,185 ratings — published 2013 — 52 editions
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Blonde Roots

3.60 avg rating — 8,846 ratings — published 2008 — 40 editions
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Manifesto: On Never Giving Up

3.97 avg rating — 5,858 ratings — published 2021 — 41 editions
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The Emperor's Babe

3.65 avg rating — 4,400 ratings — published 2001 — 32 editions
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Hello Mum

3.68 avg rating — 1,959 ratings — published 2010 — 14 editions
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Soul Tourists

3.15 avg rating — 1,036 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions
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Lara

3.87 avg rating — 510 ratings — published 1997 — 7 editions
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Feminism

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