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With her latest work, Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo offers a personal and creative manifesto for our times. 

Bernardine Evaristo came to global prominence in 2019 as the first black woman to win the Booker Prize (alongside Margaret Atwood) for Girl, Woman, Other but the performer, author, poet, and artist has been creating magical pieces of self-expression since her debut novel Lara in 1997. Excelling in what she herself calls “fusion fiction”, Evaristo effortlessly merges poetry and prose to create a unique and lyrical medium for her observations on the public and the private, the lives we live, outside and in. But art is never effortless, as her powerful Manifesto reveals. Join her in a testimony to the art of never giving up, and to the necessity of surviving in order to live. 

Bernardine Evaristo will be in conversation with writer Mia Gallagher.

‘Bernardine Evaristo is one of those writers who should be read by everyone, everywhere’ Elif Shafak