with Bernardine Evaristo, Novelist & professor
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Add to calendarEvaristo on self production, verse novels, and forty years of building a career without permission.
A room mostly over fifty. The Q&A ran forty minutes past the curfew and the librarians let it.
Evaristo co founded Britain's first Black women's theatre company in 1982 and published eight books before Girl, Woman, Other made her the first Black woman to win the Booker Prize, at sixty. She calls her form 'fusion fiction' and has spent decades campaigning for writers of colour in British publishing.
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Reading & Q&AUpcomingGirl, Woman, Other · Hamish Hamilton, 2019
with Bernardine Evaristo, Novelist & professor
Booker Prize, 2019
Evaristo performs three of the twelve narrators of Girl, Woman, Other and explains where the punctuation went.
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Live recordingUpcomingManifesto · Hamish Hamilton, 2021
with Bernardine Evaristo, Novelist & professor
Booker Prize, 2019
Forty years of building a career instead of waiting to be discovered, and what the Booker did at sixty.
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