Booker Prize
1 appearances
Bernardine Evaristo
バーナディン・エヴァリト
Bānadin Evaristo
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1959-05-28 （Eltham, London, England）
- Nationality
- British
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- London
Career
- Occupations
- Novelist, critic, poet, playwright, academic
- Active Years
- 1982-
- Affiliations
- Brunel University London, Royal Society of Literature
- Memberships
- OBE, FRSL, FRSA
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eltham Hill Grammar School for Girls | — | Girls' school | — | 1970-1977 | UK |
| Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama | — | Theatre | — | — | UK |
| Goldsmiths College, University of London | — | Creative Writing | PhD | — | UK |
Eltham Hill Grammar School for Girls
Girls' school
Period:
1970-1977
Year of Graduation:
1977
Country:
UK
Secondary school
Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama
Theatre
Year of Graduation:
1982
Country:
UK
Graduated
Goldsmiths College, University of London
Creative Writing
Degree:
PhD
Year of Graduation:
2013
Country:
UK
PhD
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Booker Prize | Girl, Woman, Other | — | Booker Prize Foundation | winner |
| 2020 | British Book Awards | Girl, Woman, Other | Fiction Book of the Year / Author of the Year | — | winner |
| 2020 | Indie Book Award | Girl, Woman, Other | Fiction | — | winner |
| 2025 | Women's Prize Outstanding Contribution Award | — | — | Women's Prize for Fiction | winner |
Booker Prize
2019
Work:
Girl, Woman, Other
Organization:
Booker Prize Foundation
Result:
winner
British Book Awards
2020
Work:
Girl, Woman, Other
Category:
Fiction Book of the Year / Author of the Year
Result:
winner
Indie Book Award
2020
Work:
Girl, Woman, Other
Category:
Fiction
Result:
winner
Women's Prize Outstanding Contribution Award
2025
Organization:
Women's Prize for Fiction
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
British Book Awards (The Nibbies)
1 appearances
-
Edition 29 (2020) Winner
Works
Major Works
Lara
1997 Verse novelFictionalises the author's family history over 150 years and her London childhood in a mixed-race family.
Mixed-raceAfrican diasporaFamily history
The Emperor's Babe
2001 Verse novelAbout a black teenage girl from Nubia coming of age in Roman London 2000 years ago.
African diasporaHistorical fictionComing of age
Adaptations
- [Radio drama] The Emperor's Babe (2013)
Blonde Roots
2008 NovelSatire inverting transatlantic slave trade history with Africans enslaving Europeans.
SlaveryRaceSatire
Girl, Woman, Other
2019 Fusion fictionInnovative polyvocal novel about 12 primarily black British women across ages, backgrounds, orientations.
Black womenBritainIdentity
Bibliography
- Island of Abraham (1994)
- Lara (1997)
- The Emperor's Babe (2001)
- Soul Tourists (2005)
- Blonde Roots (2008)
- Lara (expanded, 2009)
- Hello Mum (2010)
- Mr Loverman (2013)
- Girl, Woman, Other (2019)
- Manifesto: On Never Giving Up (2021)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Experimental formVerse novelsMerging past/presentFiction/poetry blend
- Recurring Motifs
- African diasporaBlack women's experiencesMixed-race identityHistorical reimagination
Legacy
First black woman to win Booker Prize, advocate for diverse writers, President of Royal Society of Literature.
Trivia
- Nigerian-English mixed heritage, fourth of eight siblings.
- Joint Booker winner with Margaret Atwood.