Bernardine Evaristo

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Bernardine Evaristo is an award-winning author whose work ranges from fiction, verse fiction, short fiction, non-fiction, poetry, essays, literary criticism, journalism, and radio and theatre drama. In 2019, she won the Booker Prize with her novel Girl, Woman, Other, becoming the first black woman and black British person to receive the prestigious award. Her writing is focused particularly on the African diaspora. She is currently serving as President of the Royal Society of Literature (RSL), the second woman and first writer of colour to hold the position since the RSL was founded in 1820.

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