Bernardine Evaristo

Bernardine Evaristo is an English author and Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University of London, best known for Girl, Woman, Other, which she shared the 2019 Booker Prize with Margaret Atwood's The Testaments and which made her the first Black woman to win the prize. She also wrote Blonde Roots, a novel that mixes historical fiction, satire and dystopia. Evaristo co-founded the writer development agency Spread the Word and served four years as President of the Royal Society of Literature.