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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with Blake Morrison and Eva Hoffman
with Warsan Shire, Yassmin Abdel-Magied and Malorie Blackman
with Roger Robinson, Jon McGregor and William Boyd
with Camila von Holdefer
Box sets & omnibuses2
with Caroline Criado Perez, Akala and Candice Carty-Williams
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, Where the Crawdads Sing, Girl Woman Other 3 Books Collection Set
with Stuart Turton and Delia Owens