Bernardine Evaristo won the Booker Prize 2019 with her eighth book, the novel Girl, Woman, Other, and became the first black woman and black British person to win it. In 2020 she was awarded the British Book Awards’ Author of the Year and Fiction Book of the Year, and the Independent Book Award for Fiction. The novel has been nominated for many other awards and was a number one bestseller in the Sunday Times for five weeks. She was chosen as one of the Vogue 25 list of Britain’s most influential women for 2020, and voted one of 100 Great Black Britons in 2020. She was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in October of 2022. She is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University London. Her latest book is Blonde Roots (2022). www.bevaristo.com
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