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Bernardine Evaristo won the Booker Prize 2019 with her eighth book, Girl, Woman, Other, the first black woman and black British person to win it. It was a #1 Sunday Times bestseller for five weeks, the first woman of colour to achieve this position in the paperback fiction chart, spending 44 weeks in the Top 10.

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Bernardine evaristo goodreads

The award-winning British writer Bernardine Evaristo develops a creative approach to the politics of form and content in her verse-novel The Emperor's Babe.

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Signed hardback copy of Manifesto by Bernardine Evaristo.

Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters.

It has sold well over a million copies in the English language alone, and been a bestseller in many other languages. There are now over 60 translations of Bernardine’s books.

The author of essays, poetry, journalism, literary criticism and drama, her other novels include Mr Loverman, Hello Mum, Blonde Roots, Lara and The Emperor’s Babe.

Manifesto: On Never Giving Up (2021) is her first non-fiction book, along with Feminism (2021), part of Tate Britain’s ‘Look Again’ series, where she offers a personal survey of the art of British women of colour.

She has initiated many arts’ inclusion projects, from Theatre of Black Women (1982-88), Brit