IN CONVERSATION WITH Bernardine EVARISTO
‘I don’t put myself down in front of other people’
Bernardine Evaristo is a British author and academic. In 2019, she became the first black woman to win the Booker Prize for her eighth book, Girl, Woman, Other. She is a professor of creative writing at Brunel University London and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her new book, Manifesto on Never Giving Up, is an intimate and inspirational memoir about her journey as a writer. She lives in London with her husband.
Not a lot of things faze me any more – I feel I can handle whatever comes my way. When I was
