She organised Britain's first major black theatre conference, Future Histories, for the Black Theatre Forum, (1995) at the Royal Festival Hall, and Britain's first major conference on black British writing, Tracing Paper (1997) at the Museum of London.Įvaristo has received more than 77 honours, awards, fellowships, nominations and other tokens of recognition. She co-founded Spread the Word writer development agency with Ruth Borthwick (1995–present) and Britain's first black women's theatre company (1982–1988), Theatre of Black Women. She founded the Brunel International African Poetry Prize, 2012–2022, and initiated The Complete Works poetry mentoring scheme, 2007–2017. Evaristo is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University London and President of the Royal Society of Literature, the second woman and the first person with Black heritage to hold the role since it was founded in 1820.Įvaristo is a longstanding advocate for the inclusion of writers and artists of colour. Her novel Girl, Woman, Other, jointly won the Booker Prize in 2019 alongside Margaret Atwood's The Testaments, making her the first woman with Black heritage to win the Booker. Novelist, critic, poet, playwright, academicīritish Book Awards: Fiction and Author of the Year 2020īernardine Anne Mobolaji Evaristo, OBE FRSL FRSA (born ) is a British author and academic. Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama Goldsmiths College, University of London
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