Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo made history in 2019 as the first Black woman to win the Booker Prize, when Girl, Woman, Other shared the prize with Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments.
Bernardine Evaristo
Bernardine Evaristo is an Anglo-Nigerian author of books of fiction and verse. Her novel Girl, Woman, Other won the 2019 Booker Prize.
Evaristo’s work explores aspects of the African diaspora: past, present, real, imagined. Her writing also spans short fiction, reviews, essays, drama and writing for radio. She is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University London and Vice Chair of the Royal Society of Literature. She was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 2009, and lives in London.
Winner The Booker Prize 2019
- By
- Bernardine Evaristo
- Published by
- Hamish Hamilton
With vivid originality, irrepressible wit and sly wisdom, Bernardine Evaristo presents a gloriously new kind of history for this old country.
