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Bernardine Evaristo
OBE FRSL FRSA
Bernardine Evaristo in 2018
Born
Bernardine Anne Mobolaji Evaristo

(1959-05-29) May 29, 1959 (age 65)
Eltham, London, England
NationalityBritish
EducationEltham Hill Grammar School for Girls
Alma materRose Bruford College of Speech and Drama; Goldsmiths College, University of London
Occupation(s)Novelist, critic, poet, playwright, academic
Notable workLara (1997)
The Emperor's Babe (2001)
Girl, Woman, Other (2019)
SpouseDavid Shannon
AwardsBooker Prize, 2019
Indie Book Award for Fiction 2020
British Book Awards: Fiction and Author of the Year 2020
Websitebevaristo.com

Bernardine Anne Mobolaji Evaristo, OBE FRSL FRSA (born 28 May 1959), is a British author and academic. Her eighth book, the novel, Girl, Woman, Other,[1] won the Booker Prize in 2019, making her the first black woman and the first black British person to win it. In 2020 she won the British Book Awards: Fiction Book of the Year and Author of the Year, as well as the Indie Book Award for Fiction. The novel was one of Barack Obama's 19 Favourite Books of 2019 and Roxane Gay's Favourite Book of 2019.[2][3][4] In June 2020 she became the first woman of colour and the first black British writer to get to number 1 in the UK paperback fiction charts, where she held the top spot for five weeks. The novel is currently being translated into 35 languages. Evaristo's writing also includes short fiction, drama, poetry, essays, literary criticism, and projects for stage and radio. Two of her books, The Emperor's Babe (2001) and Hello Mum (2010), have been adapted into BBC Radio 4 dramas.

Evaristo is a longstanding advocate for the inclusion of writers and artists of colour, setting up many successful projects. She founded the Brunel International African Poetry Prize[5] (2012–present) and initiated The Complete Works poetry mentoring scheme (2007–2017).[6] She co-founded Spread the Word writer development agency[7] (1995–present) and Britain's first black women's theatre company (1982–1988), Theatre of Black Women.[8] She organised Britain's first major black theatre conference, Future Histories, for the Black Theatre Forum,[9] (1995) at the Royal Festival Hall, and Britain's first major conference on black British writing, Tracing Paper (1997) at the Museum of London. In October 2020 it was announced that she is curating a new book series with Hamish Hamilton at Penguin Random House publishers, "Black Britain: Writing Back", which involves bringing back into print and circulation books from the past. The first six books, novels, will be published in February 2021, including Minty Alley (1936) by C. L. R. James and The Dancing Face (1997) by Mike Phillips.[10]

Evaristo is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University London, one of fewer than 30 black female professors in the UK out of around 20,000 professors overall.[11] She was Vice-Chair of the Royal Society of Literature until 2020, when she became a lifetime Vice President. She is a lifetime Honorary Fellow of St Anne's College, University of Oxford, and in 2021 she succeeded Sir Richard Eyre as President of Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance, her alma mater and one of Britain's major drama schools. She was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the Queen's 2009 Birthday Honours, and an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Queen's 2020 Birthday Honours,[12] both for services to literature.

Biography

Evaristo was born in Eltham, south-east London, and christened Bernardine Anne Mobolaji Evaristo.[13] She was raised in Woolwich, the fourth of eight children born to her white English mother, who was a schoolteacher, and her Nigerian father, Julius Taiwo Bayomi Evaristo (1927–2001), known as Danny, born in British Cameroon, raised in Nigeria, who migrated to Britain in 1949 and became a welder and the first black councillor in the Borough of Greenwich, for the Labour Party.[14] Her paternal grandfather, Gregorio Bankole Evaristo, was a Yoruba Aguda who sailed from Brazil to Nigeria. He was a customs officer (d. 1927). Her paternal grandmother, Zenobia Evaristo, née Sowemima (d. 1967) was from Abeokuta in Nigeria.[15][16][17] Her mother's paternal great-grandfather, Louis Wilkening, arrived in London from Germany in the 1860s and settled in Woolwich, while her mother's maternal grandmother, Mary Jane Robbins, arrived in London from Birr, County Offaly, in Ireland in the 1880s and settled in Islington.[18] Evaristo was educated at Greenwich Young People's Theatre (now Tramshed, in Woolwich), Eltham Hill Grammar School for Girls, the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama, and Goldsmiths College, University of London, receiving her doctorate in creative writing in 2013.[19] In 2019 she was appointed Woolwich Laureate by the Greenwich and Docklands International Festival, reconnecting to and writing about the home town she left when she was 18.[20]

Writer and editor

Evaristo is the author of eight books of fiction and verse fiction that explore aspects of the African diaspora.[21] She notably experiments with form and narrative perspective,[21] often merging the past with the present, fiction with poetry, the factual with the speculative, and reality with alternate realities (as in her 2008 novel Blonde Roots).[22] Her verse novel The Emperor's Babe (Penguin, 2001) is about a black teenage girl, whose parents are from Nubia, coming of age in Roman London nearly 2,000 years ago.[23] It won an Arts Council Writers' Award 2000; a NESTA Fellowship Award in 2003; it was chosen by The Times as one of the 100 Best Books of the Decade in 2010;[24] and it was adapted into a BBC Radio 4 play in 2013.[25] Next Evaristo published Soul Tourists (Penguin, 2005), about a mismatched couple driving across Europe to the Middle East, which featured ghosts of real figures of colour from European history.[26][27]

Her novel Blonde Roots (Penguin, 2008) is a satire that inverts the history of the transatlantic slave trade and replaces it with a universe where Africans enslave Europeans.[28] Blonde Roots won the Orange Youth Panel Award and Big Red Read Award,[18] and was nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award and the Orange Prize and the Arthur C. Clarke Award.[29]

Evaristo's other books include the verse novel Lara (Bloodaxe Books, 2009, with an earlier version published in 1997), which fictionalised the multiple cultural strands of her family history going back over 150 years as well as her mixed-race London childhood.[30] This won the EMMA Best Novel Award in 1998.[18] Her novella Hello Mum (Penguin, 2010) was chosen as "The Big Read" for the County of Suffolk, and adapted into a BBC Radio 4 play in 2012.[31]

As an editor, she guest-edited The Sunday Times Style magazine (UK) in July 2020 with a groundbreaking black-woman/-xn takeover, featuring an array of young artists, activists and change-makers.[32] She guest-edited the September 2014 issue of Mslexia magazine,[33] the Poetry Society of Great Britain's centenary winter issue of Poetry Review (2012), titled "Offending Frequencies"; a special issue of Wasafiri magazine called Black Britain: Beyond Definition (Routledge, 2010), with poet Karen McCarthy-Woolf; Ten,[34] an anthology of Black and Asian poets, with poet Daljit Nagra (Bloodaxe Books, 2010) and in 2007, she co-edited the New Writing Anthology NW15 (Granta/British Council). She was also editor of FrontSeat intercultural magazine in the 1990s,[29] and one of the editors of Black Women Talk Poetry anthology (published in 1987 by the Black Womantalk Poetry collective of which Evaristo was part),[35] Britain's first such substantial anthology, featuring among its 20 poets Jackie Kay, Dorothea Smartt and Adjoa Andoh.[36]

Her 2014 novel Mr Loverman (Penguin UK, 2013/ Akashic Books USA, 2014) is about a septuagenarian Caribbean Londoner, a closet homosexual considering his options after a 50-year marriage to his wife.[37][38] It won the Publishing Triangle Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction (USA) and the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize.[39] In 2015 she wrote and presented a two-part BBC Radio 4 documentary, Fiery Inspiration – on Amiri Baraka, BBC Radio 4, 2015.

Evaristo is a contributor to many anthologies and books including New Daughters of Africa: An international anthology of writing by women of African descent (2019), edited by Margaret Busby.[40]

Evaristo's most recent novel, Girl, Woman, Other (May 2019, Hamish Hamilton/Penguin UK), is an innovative polyvocal "fusion fiction"[41] about 12 primarily black British womxn. Their ages span 19 to 93 and they are a mix of cultural backgrounds, sexualities, classes and geographies, and the novel charts their hopes, struggles and intersecting lives. In July 2019 the novel was longlisted for the Booker Prize[42] and made the Booker Prize shortlist, announced on 3 September 2019, alongside books by Margaret Atwood, Lucy Ellmann, Chigozie Obioma, Salman Rushdie and Elif Shafak,[43] and on 14 October it won the prize jointly with Atwood's The Testaments.[44][45] The win made her the first black woman and first black British author to win the prize.[45] Girl, Woman, Other was shortlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction.[46] In 2020, Evaristo was recognised for her writing as one of the United Kingdom's most influential people of African or African Caribbean heritage by being included in the 2021 edition of the annual Powerlist.[47]

Teaching and touring

Evaristo has taught creative writing since 1994. She has also been awarded many writing fellowships and residencies including the Montgomery Fellowship at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire in 2015; for the British Council at Georgetown University, Washington DC; Barnard College/ Columbia University, New York; University of the Western Cape, South Africa; the Virginia Arts Festival (Virginia, USA), and Writing Fellow at the University of East Anglia, UK. She taught the University of East Anglia-Guardian "How to Tell a Story" course for four seasons in London up to 2015.[48][49]

Since 1997, she has accepted more than 130 international invitations as a writer. These involve writer-residencies and visiting fellowships, British Council tours, book tours, teaching creative writing courses and workshops as well as keynotes, talks and panels at many conferences and literary festivals.[14] She chaired the 32nd and 33rd British Council Berlin Literature Seminar in 2017 and 2018. She also tours the UK on an ongoing basis and regularly hosts and chairs events.[40]

Critic and advocate

Evaristo has written many articles, essays, fictions and book reviews for UK publications including: The Times, Vanity Fair, The Guardian,[50] The Observer, The Independent, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar UK, The Times Literary Supplement, Conde Naste Traveller, Wasafiri, and the New Statesman.[51] Aside from founding the Brunel International African Poetry Prize,[14] she has judged many prizes and in 2012 was chair of judges for both the Caine Prize for African Writing[52] and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize.[53]

In 2006, Evaristo initiated an Arts Council-funded report delivered by Spread the Word writer development agency into why black[54] and Asian poets were not getting published in the UK, which revealed that less than 1% of all published poetry is by poets of colour.[55]

When the report was published, she then initiated The Complete Works poetry mentoring scheme, with Nathalie Teitler and Spread the Word.[6] In this national development programme,[56] 30 poets were mentored, each over a one- or two-year period, and many went on to publish books, win many awards and receive serious recognition for their poetry. (See The Complete Works alumnae list at the end.)[57]

Evaristo has also served on many key councils and advisory committees for various organisations including the Council of the Royal Society of Literature since 2017, the Arts Council of England, the London Arts Board, the British Council Literature Advisory Panel, the Society of Authors, the Poetry Society (Chair) and Wasafiri international literature magazine.[58][14]

In the 1980s, together with Paulette Randall and Patricia Hilaire, she founded Theatre of Black Women,[8] the first theatre company in Britain of its kind. In the 1990s she organised Britain's first black British writing conference, held at the Museum of London, and also Britain's first black British theatre conference, held at the Royal Festival Hall. In 1995 she co-founded and directed Spread the Word, London's writer development agency.[55]

Other activity

Evaristo was featured as the castaway on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs on 20 September 2020, interviewed by Lauren Laverne.[59][60] A portrait of Evaristo (2002) by photographer Sal Idriss is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London.[61]

Evaristo has delivered many keynotes, speeches and lectures worldwide since 1994. She delivered the New Statesman/Goldsmiths Prize lecture on 30 September 2020.[62][63] In October 2020 she gave the opening keynote address at the Frankfurt Book Fair's Publishing Insights conference, in which she called on publishers to hire more people represent a wider range of communities: "We have to have people working in the industry from all these communities who are looking for something beyond the cliches and stereotypes."[64]

Personal life

She is married to writer David Shannon, whom she met in 2006,[60] and whose debut novel was launched in March 2021.[65][66][67]

Awards and recognition

Academic honours

Books

  • Girl, Woman, Other, a novel (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin, 2019, ISBN 978-0241364901)
  • Mr Loverman, a novel (Penguin UK, 2013; Akashic Books, 2014, ISBN 978-1617752896)
  • Hello Mum, a novella (Penguin UK, 2010; ISBN 978-0141044385)
  • Lara – new, expanded edition (Bloodaxe Books, 2009; ISBN 978-1852248314)
  • Blonde Roots (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin, 2008; Riverhead/Penguin, USA, 2009, ISBN 978-0141031521)
  • Soul Tourists (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin, 2005; ISBN 978-0140297829)
  • The Emperor's Babe (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin, 2001; Penguin USA, 2002, ISBN 978-0140297812)
  • Lara (Angela Royal Publishing, 1997; ISBN 9781899860456)
  • Island of Abraham (Peepal Tree Press, 1994; ISBN 978-0948833601)

Plays

Short fiction (selected)

Essays

  • 2021: Introduction to Beloved by Toni Morrison (Vintage)[105]
  • 2021: Introduction to for Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange (Orion)
  • 2021: Introduction to Black Teacher by Beryl Gilroy (Faber and Faber)[106]
  • 2021: Introduction to Bernard and the Cloth Monkey by Judith Bryan (1998) 'Black Britain: Writing Back' series (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin reissue)[107][108]
  • 2021: Introduction to Minty Alley by C. L. R. James (1936), "Black Britain: Writing Back" series (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin reissue)[109]
  • 2021: Introduction to Incomparable World by S. I. Martin (1996), "Black Britain: Writing Back" series (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin reissue)[110]
  • 2021: Introduction to The Dancing Face by Mike Phillips (1997), "Black Britain: Writing Back" series (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin reissue)[111]
  • 2021: Introduction to The Fat Lady Sings by Jacqueline Roy (2000), "Black Britain: Writing Back" series (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin reissue)[112]
  • 2021: Introduction to Without Prejudice by Nicola Williams (1997), "Black Britain: Writing Back" series (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin reissue)[113]
  • 2020: Foreword to Bedside Guardian, the annual Guardian anthology[114]
  • 2020: Introduction to Loud Black Girls, edited by Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uviebinené (HarperCollins)[115]Evaristo, Bernardine,
  • 2020: "Literature Can Foster Our Shared Humanity", British Vogue, 6 June 2020.[116]
  • 2020: "The Longform Patriarchs and their Accomplices", New Statesman[117]
  • 2020: "On Mrs Dalloway", BBC Radio 4
  • 2020: "Claiming Whiteness", The House magazine, of the (Houses of Parliament)[118]
  • 2020: "Spiritual Pick and Mix", for A Point of View, BBC Radio 4[119]
  • 2020: "Loving the Body Fat-tastic", for A Point of View, BBC Radio 4[120]
  • 2020: "The Pro-Mask Movement", for A Point of View, BBC Radio 4[121]
  • 2020: "Gender in the Blender", for A Point of View, BBC Radio 4[122]
  • 2020: "Why Black Lives Matter", for A Point of View, BBC Radio 4[123]
  • 2020: "Theatre of Black Women: A Personal Account", in The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Women on Stage, edited by Jan Sewell and Clare Smout (Palgrave Macmillan)[124]
  • 2020: Foreword: "Re:Thinking: 'Diversity' in Publishing", by Dr Anamik Saha and Dr Sandra van Lente (Goldsmiths University/Newgen Publishing UK)[125]
  • 2019: "What a Time to be a (Black) (British) (Womxn) Writer", in Brave New Words, edited by Susheila Nasta (Myriad Editions)[126]
  • 2013: The Book that Changed Me Series: Essay on For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange (BBC Radio 3)[127]
  • 2016: "The Privilege of Being a Mixed Race Woman", Tangled Roots: Real Life Stories from Mixed Race Britain, Anthology Number 2, edited by Katy Massey (Tangled Roots)
  • 2011: "Myth, Motivation, Magic & Mechanics", Body of Work: 40 Years of Creative Writing at UEA (University of East Anglia), edited by Giles Foden (Full Circle Editions)
  • 2010: "The Month of September", on writing and process, Volume 100:4, Winter 2010 Poetry Review[128]
  • 2010: Introduction to Ten poetry anthology, "Why This, Why Now?", on the need for The Complete Works initiative to diversify British poetry publications (Bloodaxe Books)[129]
  • 2010: Introduction to Wasafiri Black Britain: Beyond Definition, "The Illusion of Inclusion2, Issue 64, Winter 2010 (Routledge)[130][131]
  • 2009: Autobiographical essay, "My Father's House" (Five Dials)[132]
  • 2009: Autobiographical essay, Contemporary Writers, Vol. 275 (Gale Publishing, USA)
  • 2008: "CSI Europe: African Trace Elements. Fragments. Reconstruction. Case Histories. Motive. Personal", Wasafiri (Taylor & Francis)[133]
  • 2007: "Writing the Past: Traditions, Inheritances, Discoveries" in Writing Worlds 1: The Norwich Exchanges (University of East Anglia/Pen & Inc Press)[134]
  • 2005: "False Memory Syndrome: Writing Black in Britain", in Writing Worlds (New Writing Partnership/University of East Anglia)
  • 2005: "The Road Less Travelled", Necessary Journeys, edited by Melanie Keen and Eileen Daley, Arts Council England
  • 2005: "Origins", Crossing Borders, British Council online[135]
  • 2005: "An Introduction to Contemporary British Poetry", British Council Literature Magazine
  • 2001: "Roaring Zora" on the life and writing of Zora Neale Hurston, Marie Claire
  • 1998: "On Staying Power" by Peter Fryer for BBC Windrush Education
  • 1996: "Going it Alone" – one-person shows in black British theatre, Artrage[136]
  • 1993: "Black Women in Theatre", Six Plays by Black and Asian Women Writers edited by Kadjia George (Aurora Metro Press)[137]
  • 1992: "Black Theatre", Artrage (Winter/Spring)[136]

Editor

  • 2020: Guest Editor, The Sunday Times Style magazine[32]
  • 2014: Guest Editor, Mslexia quarterly magazine of creative writing, Issue Number 63[138]
  • 2014: Editorial Selector, the Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize anthology, Let’s Tell This Story Properly, edited by Ellah Allfrey (Dundern Press, Canada)
  • 2014–ongoing. Editorial Board, the African Poetry Book Fund, with Prairie Schooner poetry magazine at the University of Nebraska[139]
  • 2012: Guest Editor, Poetry Review, Offending Frequencies for The Poetry Society of Great Britain, Special Centenary Winter Issue, Volume 102.4[140]
  • 2014–2020, Originator and supervising editor of annual student anthologies at Brunel University London: The Voices Inside Our Heads, The Psyche Supermarket, The Imagination Project, It’s Complicated, Totem, Pendulum and Letter to My Younger Self 2019, Kintsugi[141]
  • 2010: Guest Editor, with Karen McCarthy Woolf, Wasafiri magazine of international literature, Black Britain: Beyond Definition, Special Winter Issue (Routledge)[142][143][144]
  • 2010: Editor, with Daljit Nagra, Ten: New Poets poetry anthology, introducing ten new poets from The Complete Works project (Bloodaxe Books)[145]
  • 2007: Editor, with Maggie Gee, NW15: New Writing Anthology, 15th annual edition (British Council and Granta)[146][147]
  • 1998–2008: Associate Editor, Wasafiri international literature journal (Queen Mary University London and Open University)[148]
  • 1996–1997: Editor, FrontSeat quarterly inter-cultural performance magazine (Black Theatre Forum)[149]
  • 1987: Editor, with Da Choong, Olivette Cole-Wilson, and Gabriela Pearse, Black Women Talk Poetry anthology[150]

Literary prize juries

Voluntary advisory

The Complete Works alumnae

Group One

  • Rowyda Amin
  • Malika Booker
  • Janet Kofi-Tsekpo
  • Mir Mahfuz Ali
  • Nick Makoha
  • Karen McCarthy Woolf
  • Shazea Quraishi
  • Roger Robinson
  • Denise Saul
  • Seni Seneviratne

Group Two

Group Three

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