Meet the author: Bernardine Evaristo
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The meetings with writers at Passa Porta, prepared with passion, courage and thoroughness, are more than simply the presentation of literary works. We seek to achieve a genuine connection between writer and reader, and among readers themselves.
Go to overviewBernardine Evaristo broke through internationally with her dazzling, kaleidoscopic novel Girl, Woman, Other. The Booker Prize turned a spotlight on a body of work that had long been unjustly underexposed. Recognition after 25 years of writing, erasing and fine-tuning. And all this with a novel that was born of frustration ‘because black British women are so invisible in literature’.
In recent years, her novels and essays have become essential contributions to debates on issues such as race, class, feminism and sexuality. But Evaristo has been a pioneer for much longer. In 1982 she and two colleagues started their own theatre school, Theatre of Black Women. And in the 1990s she organized the first black theatre conference in the UK. She has also founded new poetry prizes and organized inclusive writing courses.
Her recent collection of essays, Manifesto: On Never Giving Up, will serve as our guiding thread for an interview with the activist writer.
Bernardine Evaristo
Bernardine Evaristo (b. 1959) is an acclaimed author of fiction, short stories, essays and theatre. Her experimental style and daring distinguish her from other writers. In her work she examines various aspects of the African diaspora. Girl, Woman, Other won the prestigious Booker Prize. It has been published in thirty-seven languages and was acclaimed internationally. For Penguin she has also curated the series Black Britain: Writing Back.
madeleine kennedy-macfoy is co-editor of the European Journal of Women’s Studies and incoming Executive Director of Gender at Work, an international feminist knowledge network focused on ending discrimination against women in all their diversity and building cultures of inclusion. Prior to joining Gender at Work, madeleine held a portfolio on women’s rights and gender equality at Education International, the global federation of teachers’ trade unions.
madeleine is a daughter of the African diaspora, born in the UK with roots/routes in Sierra Leone. She has lived on three continents and been based in Brussels for the last ten years.
Org. Passa Porta, De Geus, L&M Books
picture bernardine evaristo © Jennie Scott
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