Bernardine EVARISTO

Bernardine Evaristo is an internationally bestselling, 2019 Booker Prize-winning writer of ten books and numerous other works. Her first non-fiction book, Manifesto, On Never Giving Up, was published in 2021. She is also a literary activist setting up many inclusion programmes for writers. Since 2020, she has been the curator of Black Britain: Writing Back for Penguin Random House, re-publishing books from the past. She is the current Literature Mentor for the Rolex Mentor & Protégé Initiative, and she has been the subject of two documentaries: The Southbank Show (2020) and Imagine (2021). She has received nearly 80 awards and honours, including the British Book Award's Fiction Book of the Year & Author of the Year, and she has been on the UK Black Powerlist for the past four years. She is a Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University London, an Honorary Fellow of St. Anne's College, University of Oxford, an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, President of the Royal Society of Literature and the current President of Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance. www.bevaristo.com

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