Bernardine Evaristo was born in 1959, Bernardine Evaristo has written at least 18 books. Their most popular book is Girl, Woman, Other with 620 saves with an average rating of 4.28⭐.
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
Bernardine Evaristo
4.28
210 reads
Mr Loverman
Bernardine Evaristo
3.87
21 reads
Blonde Roots
Bernardine Evaristo
3.62
14 reads
Manifesto: On Never Giving Up
Bernardine Evaristo
3.83
6 reads
The Emperor's Babe
Bernardine Evaristo
3
4 reads
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
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0 reads
Lara
Bernardine Evaristo
4
1 read
Soul Tourists
Bernardine Evaristo
4
1 read
The Dancing Face
Mike Phillips
4
1 read
One For the Trouble
Irvine Welsh
Patrick Ness
William Boyd
Paul Murray
Bernardine Evaristo
Joe Dunthorne
Helen Oyeyemi
Hari Kunzru
4
1 read
Hello Mum
Bernardine Evaristo
4
2 reads
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
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Invisible Women / Girl, Woman, Other / Queenie / Natives Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
Caroline Criado Perez
Bernardine Evaristo
Akala
Candice Carty-Williams
0
0 reads
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
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0 reads
Feminism
Bernardine Evaristo
0
0 reads
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
3
1 read
M??dchen, Frau etc.
Bernardine Evaristo
Tanja Handels (Translator)
5
1 read
Raízes Brancas
Bernardine Evaristo
0
0 reads
Gifts of Gravity and Light: A Nature Almanac for the Twenty-first Century