Bernardine Evaristo

Bernardine Evaristo

Bernardine Evaristo was born in 1959, Bernardine Evaristo has written at least 16 books. Their most popular book is Girl, Woman, Other with 598 saves with an average rating of 4.27⭐.

Author Bio

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 Poetry Prize (2012-ongoing).

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Girl, Woman, Other
Girl, Woman, Other
  • Bernardine Evaristo
4.27200 reads
Mr Loverman
Mr Loverman
  • Bernardine Evaristo
3.8720 reads
Blonde Roots
Blonde Roots
  • Bernardine Evaristo
3.6214 reads
Manifesto: On Never Giving Up
Manifesto: On Never Giving Up
  • Bernardine Evaristo
3.754 reads
The Emperor's Babe
The Emperor's Babe
  • Bernardine Evaristo
34 reads
New Daughters of Africa
New Daughters of Africa
  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Patience Agbabi
  • Sefi Atta
  • Ayesha Harruna Attah
  • Malorie Blackman
  • Tanella Boni
  • Diana Evans
  • Bernardine Evaristo
  • Aminatta Forna
  • Danielle Legros Georges
  • Bonnie Greer
  • Andrea Levy
  • Imbolo Mbue
  • Yewande Omotoso
  • Nawal El Saadawi
  • Taiye Selasi
  • Warsan Shire
  • Zadie Smith
  • Andrea Stuart
  • Summer Edward
  • Joanne C. Hillhouse
  • Arthenia Bates Millican
  • Yassmin Abdel-Magied
00 reads
Lara
Lara
  • Bernardine Evaristo
41 read
Soul Tourists
Soul Tourists
  • Bernardine Evaristo
41 read
The Dancing Face
The Dancing Face
  • Mike Phillips
41 read
One For the Trouble
One For the Trouble
  • Irvine Welsh
  • Patrick Ness
  • William Boyd
  • Paul Murray
  • Bernardine Evaristo
  • Joe Dunthorne
  • Helen Oyeyemi
  • Hari Kunzru
41 read
Hello Mum
Hello Mum
  • Bernardine Evaristo
42 reads
Long Players: Writers on the Albums that Shaped Them
Long Players: Writers on the Albums that Shaped Them
  • Deborah Levy
  • Clive James
  • Patricia Lockwood
  • Lavinia Greenlaw
  • Marlon James
  • Daisy Johnson
  • Eimear McBride
  • Billy Bragg
  • Teju Cole
  • Sandeep Parmar
  • Kate Mossman
  • George Saunders
  • Preti Taneja
  • John Harris
  • Meg Rosoff
  • Sarah Perry
  • Neil Tennant
  • Melissa Harrison
  • Colm Tóibín
  • Bernardine Evaristo
  • Jonathan Coe
  • Will Harris
  • Bonnie Greer
  • David Mitchell
  • Fiona Mozley
  • Esi Edugyan
  • David Hepworth
  • Joe Dunthorne
  • Suzanne Moore
  • Ben Okri
  • Olivia Laing
  • Neel Mukherjee
  • Neil Gaiman
  • Tracey Thorn
  • Musa Okwonga
  • Mark Ellen
  • Linda Grant
  • Jason Cowley
  • Will Self
  • Sabrina Mahfouz
  • John Burnside
  • Lionel Shriver
  • Daljit Nagra
  • Rachel Kushner
  • Ian Rankin
  • Emily Berry
  • Erika Wagner
  • Ali Smith
  • Alan Johnson
  • Sarah Hall
00 reads
M??dchen, Frau etc.
M??dchen, Frau etc.
  • Bernardine Evaristo
  • Tanja Handels (Translator)
51 read
Brave New Words
Brave New Words
  • Bernardine Evaristo
  • Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ
  • Eva Hoffman
  • Romesh Gunesekera
  • Githa Hariharan
  • James Kelman
  • Tabish Khair
  • Kei Miller
  • Blake Morrison
  • Hsiao-Hung Pai
  • Olumide Popoola
  • Shivanee Ramlochan
  • Bina Shah
  • Raja Shehadeh
  • Marina Warner
00 reads
Feminism
Feminism
  • Bernardine Evaristo
00 reads
How Much the Heart Can Hold: Seven Stories on Love
How Much the Heart Can Hold: Seven Stories on Love
  • Carys Bray
  • Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
  • Bernardine Evaristo
  • Grace McCleen
  • Donal Ryan
  • Nikesh Shukla
  • D.W. Wilson
31 read
Gifts of Gravity and Light: A Nature Almanac for the Twenty-first Century
Gifts of Gravity and Light: A Nature Almanac for the Twenty-first Century
    00 reads