Bernardine Evaristo
Bernardine Evaristo was born in 1959, Bernardine Evaristo has written at least 17 books. Their most popular book is Girl, Woman, Other with 444 saves with an average rating of 4.27⭐.
They are best known for writing in the genres LGBTQ, Fiction, and Women.
emotional, reflective, and dark are their most common moods.
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).
