Bernardine Evaristo

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Bernardine Evaristo

Bernardine Evaristo

@BernardineEvari

Writer. Girl, Woman, Other: Booker Prize 2019. Women's Prize Outstanding Contribution Award 2025. Prof @Brunel Uni & Visiting Prof @Oxford 2025/6.

London, England Katılım Ekim 2011
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Contrary to incorrect media reporting (which has proliferated in the past week), the @RSLiterature put out 2 tweets in support of Salman Rushdie when he was stabbed, as did I, a personal tweet. I deleted the first one in a mass delete ages ago, but the second was quoted in the Independent. Evidence. Facts. The Truth.
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Released today! Some of my BBC writing & book adaptations since 2003. Lovely to have this available in one place. The Emperor's Babe, Hello Mum +++. Via all audio outlets. penguin.co.uk/books/459460/b… l
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The TV adaptation of my novel Mr Loverman has just garnered THREE @BAFTA nominations for its leads, Lennie James (who won the @RTS_media Best Lead Actor this week for the part), Sharon D. Clarke and Ariyon Bakare. So deserving for their incredible performances. Fingers crossed they win! westendtheatre.com/283212/news/aw…
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As Chair of this prize, I couldn't be more delighted that we chose @_cherisemorris_ with her gem of a manuscript, the cosmic matter of black lives! Look out for it when @CassavaRepublic publishes it!
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🏆MEET THE WINNERS!🏆 🌟 Huge congratulations to @_cherisemorris_, winner of the inaugural Global Black Women’s Non-fiction Manuscript Prize for her stunning manuscript, the cosmic matter of Black lives!

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Very proud of @kirstycapes who published her third novel, Girls, last May (@orionbooks). She studied for her Creative Writing BA, MA and PhD at @Bruneluni University of London. I was the creative supervisor for her PhD - writing her debut novel, CARELESS (2021), which was Women's Prize-nominated. On Girls, I describe it as a "A memorable portrayal of a family and their damaged relationships painted with all the colour, ambition, texture and psychological complexity that makes for richly rewarding, stand-out fiction."
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I'll be teaching novel writing on the Creative Writing MA @Bruneluni University of London next year. It's the only place I teach & we'll be digging deep into craft & deconstructing some great novels. Recent grads include @kirstycapes whose 3rd novel, Girls, was published this year, and Warona Jay, who published her first. The Grand Scheme of Things. Term starts September 2025. brunel.ac.uk/study/courses/…
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Last night we celebrated today’s launch of #Murakami’s new book ‘The City and its Uncertain Walls’ at a packed special event @Foyles. Thank you to all who came along to toast its success with sake and green tea 🍵 #HarukiMurakami
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Happy to announce I've founded a new prize for UK writers - the RSL Scriptorium Awards - which offers my pension-investment cottage on the Kent coast to writers for free for up to a month each. Applications open Spring 2025. A jury will choose the writers & I will have zero involvement in the selection. For more details, follow @RSLiterature, visit their website, and check out this Guardian article. Sadly, due to ongoing attacks, I have to state that this is a philanthropic gesture, I am offering the cottage for free & further supporting the prize & I am, therefore, of course, in no way earning any income from it. (I know, go figure) I have set up several literature inclusion projects over the decades (look under 'Community' on my website) & this one shares the Booker Bounty! theguardian.com/books/2024/oct…
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End of an era! I've now completed my 4-year tenure as President of @rosebruford College of Theatre & Performance & attended the fantastic installation of the leading actor, Ray Fearon, as the new President. I graduated in '82 from the College, and he did in the '90s. Feat in pics: the comedian, Mo Gilligan @MoTheComedian, who received an Hon Doc for services to the performing arts & Principal & CEO, Professor Randall S. Whittaker #rosebruford #mogilligan #rayfearon
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