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Biographie de Bernardine Evaristo

Bernardine Evaristo is the award-winning author of eight books of fiction, including Girl, Woman, Other, for which she won the Booker Prize in 2019 — becoming the first black woman to do so. In 2020 she won Fiction Book of the Year and Author of the Year at the British Book Awards, and the Indie Book Award for fiction. In June 2020 she became the first woman of colour and the first black British writer to reach number one in the UK paperback fiction charts.
Her work can now be read in multiple languages across the globe. As Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University London, she is one of fewer than thirty black female professors in the UK. She is also lifetime Vice President of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Fellow of St Anne's College, University of Oxford, and an International Honorary Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
She founded the Brand International African Poetry Prize and The Complete Works poetry mentoring scheme ; and co-founded Spread the Word and Britain's first black women's theatre company, Theatre of Black Women. In 2021 she launched the Black Britain : Writing Back series with Penguin Books to celebrate rediscovered black British authors from across the last century. She was born in London, where she still lives.