Bernardine Evaristo
@BernardineEvari
Booker Prize 2019, 2x British Book Awards 2020, Women's Prize Outstanding Contribution Award 2025. Prof @Brunel, President, Royal Soc of Literature (2022-2025)
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…
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
You can find me on Substack latest post photo from 1984 - bernardineevaristo.substack.com/p/writing-abou… Also on IG & FB. See you there - barely on here these days, these times.
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…
The Royal Society of Literature @RSLiterature released a Statement of FACTS two days ago. Remember them? Pls RT. Thx. rsliterature.org
RIP Nikki Giovanni. theguardian.com/books/2024/feb… #NikkiGiovanni
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!
🏆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!
You can find the first teacher guide for Girl Woman Other here! Very useful for school teachers and university lecturers. It became an A Level set text in 2022. @FreedomtoTeach #girlwomanother collins.co.uk/products/97800…
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…
Currently chairing the Global Black Women's Manuscript Prize - filling in the gaps by finding the next generation of non-fiction writers & original thinkers - for @CassavaRepublic publishers. Here's the shortlist. #cassavarepublic writingafrica.com/global-black-w…
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…
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
Congratulations, Samantha Harvey!
‘Sometimes you encounter a book and cannot work out how this miraculous event has happened’ We're delighted to announce that the winner of the #BookerPrize2024 is Orbital by Samantha Harvey. 🌌✨ Discover the book: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-lib…
Dua Lipa @DUALIPA is a great supporter of writers & literature. Here are my five poetry book choices for her @service95 cultural website. I could have added another 50 but went for some personal faves @rrobinson72 @JTaylorTrash @CalebFemi_ @RuffneckRefugee & Mapping the Future…
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…
This Friday, when I'll be announcing a new literary prize @RSLiterature!
THIS FRIDAY come celebrate Mapping the Future: The Complete Works Poets with @arshi_mona Will Harris @KMcCarthyWoolf @NickMakoha @YomiSode @BernardineEvari & @Natteitler! @BloodaxeBooks @RSLiterature @britishlibrary #completeworkspoets 🎟️ bit.ly/cwpbl
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…
Love this! Please RT & share privately with people you know. @guardian requesting feedback from black & LGBTQ+ viewers to #MrLoverman @BBCOne @fablepicsuk. Mondays at 9pm but the entire series is available to watch on @BBCiPlayer theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2…
Looking forward to introducing this event next week! Where I'll also announce another project live at the venue. @RSLiterature in partnership with Speaking Volumes @Speak_Volumes, who have long produced all kinds of innovative performance, print & production events. (No comments,…
In 2008 less than 1% of poets of colour were published by major presses. In response, RSL President @BernardineEvari launched The Complete Works, a mentoring scheme that supported 30 poets of colour from 2008 to 2020. Today, that first figure has risen to over 20%. At the end of…
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