Bernardine Evaristo, the 2019 Booker Prize winner, discusses her joyous and brilliantly inventive polyphonic novel that explores the lives of twelve black British women of different generations. Chaired by Peter Florence, chair of the 2019 Booker Prize.
Bernardine Evaristo won the Booker Prize 2019 with her eighth book, Girl, Woman, Other, a fusion fiction novel. Her writing centres on her interest in the African diaspora. She is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University London and Vice Chair of the Royal Society of Literature. She’s won several awards and honours and was appointed an MBE in 2009.
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