Bernardine Evaristo warns minorities who refuse honours risk making them prizes ‘for white people’

Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo OBE warns ethnic minorities who refuse honours for their links to Empire risk making them prizes ‘for white people’ Writer Bernadine Evaristo awarded an OBE in Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2020 The 61-year-old was first black woman to win Booker Prize in 2019 for her novel Evaristo has said it … Read more

Hilary Mantel pitted against Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo in Women’s Prize For Fiction

Hilary Mantel’s new work The Mirror And The Light is pitted against Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other as the Women’s Prize For Fiction shortlist is revealed The Mirror And The Light concludes Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell trilogy Girl, Woman, Other won the Booker Prize alongside Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments The announcement of … Read more