Bernardine Evaristo

When Bernardine Evaristo was in her thirties she decided she wanted
to win the Booker Prize. After breaking away from her career in
theatre, Evaristo eventually became the first Black British person
to receive the literary award and was catapulted into the
international spotlight with her novel, Girl Woman, Other. But
Evaristo’s life began in “curtain twitching” white suburbia where
racists routinely smashed in the windows of her family home. Her
first non-fiction book, Manifesto is also her memoir - a guide to
never giving up.