An award-winning novelist, poet, dramatist, essayist and activist, Bernardine Evaristo is the joint winner of The Booker Prize 2019 for Girl, Woman, Other and the first Black female author to top the paperback fiction chart in the UK.
After publishing a collection of poetry entitled Island of Abraham in 1994, Evaristo found critical recognition with The Emperor’s Babe in 2001. A vibrant verse novel about a Nubian woman in Roman-ruled Londinium, the book drew praise from Ali Smith, who termed it ‘wildly entertaining and deeply affecting.’ Subsequent novels built on Evaristo’s commitment to exploring the literary potential of the African diaspora, with Blonde Roots imagining a world where white Europeans were enslaved by Africans, and Mr. Loverman detailing the romantic misadventures of an ageing Caribbean Londoner.
The Booker-winning Girl, Woman, Other is a panoramic journey through the life experiences of contemporary Black British women. Evaristo has adapted both The Emperor’s Babe and her 2010 novella Hello Mum for radio and campaigns tirelessly for greater BAME representation in UK publishing.
"I am comforted by storytellers who are able to transport me away from my daily reality into the world of their imagination. I love the fiction of Jacob Ross, and his foray into crime fiction keeps his literary spirit alive. Black Rain Falling, his second book in a crime trilogy set on a fictional Caribbean island, is gloriously immersive and seductive. As we cannot travel at the moment, this book will take you travelling to a small island society where secrets, corruption and revenge lurk in its underbelly."
Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo unveiled a brilliantly diverse list of books at Waterstones Bristol Galleries.
Joint winner of the Booker Prize for Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo has had a stellar 2019. Here she picks her top black British non-fiction books of the year.
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