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Join us for an inspiring global feminist evening with renowned author, Bernardine Evaristo, as she delves into the power of creativity, activism and her own feminist journey.
Bernardine Evaristo is an incredible award-winning feminist writer whose trailblazing work has challenged power structures and amplified marginalised voices. She was the first black woman and black British person to win the Booker Prize in 2019 with her novel, Girl, Woman, Other, which has left an indelible mark on contemporary literature.
Date: Wed, 30th October 2024
Time: 6.00pm-7.00pm GMT
Location: Online livestream
Hosted by journalist and Circle ambassador Lucy Siegle, be part of a global feminist evening as we speak with one of the most important voices of our time.
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GETTING TO KNOW THE AUTHOR
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, spending 44 weeks in the Top 10. It has sold over a million copies in the English language, and been a bestseller in many other languages. The author of essays, journalism, literary criticism, poetry and drama, her other novels include Mr Loverman, Blonde Roots, Lara and The Emperor’s Babe. Her two non-fiction books are Manifesto: On Never Giving Up (2021) and Look Again: Feminism (2021), which is part of Tate Britain’s ‘Look Again’ series. She delivers many talks, keynotes and lectures in the UK, and has made over 170 trips to appear at international festivals and events.
She has initiated many arts’ inclusion projects including the Complete Works Poetry Mentoring scheme for poets of colour, addressing under-representation (2007-2017), the Brunel International African Poetry Prize (2012-2022) and the Royal Society of Literature/Sky Arts mentoring scheme. She co-founded Theatre of Black Women (1982-88) and Spread the Word, London’s writer’s development agency (1995 -). Since 2020 she has been the curator of Black Britain:Writing Back for Penguin Random House, re-publishing books from the past. She is the current Literature Mentor for the Rolex Mentor & Protégé Initiative.
She has received over 80 awards, honours and nominations, including the British Book Award’s Fiction Book of the Year & Author of the Year, she has made the UK Black Powerlist for the past four years. She is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University London and the current President of the Royal Society of Literature and of Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance.
