Booker winner Bernardine Evaristo for the Guardian Review
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Booker Winner Bernardine Evaristo on breaking the rules
It was clear that things were not going to plan when, just half an hour before the guests began to arrive, the judges of this year’s Booker prize had yet to make a decision. Five hours after they had begun their deliberations, they finally emerged in a state of “joyful mutiny” to announce that they had decided […]
Bernardine Evaristo wins the 2019 Booker Prize
Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo have been named the joint winners of the 2019 Booker Prize after the judges broke their rules by declaring a tie.
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JUNG CHANG INTERVIEWED IN THE OBSERVER ON PUBLICATION OF Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China
Jung Chang was born in China in 1952 and came to Britain in 1978. She is the author of Wild Swans, Mao: The Unknown Story (with her husband, the historian Jon Halliday) and Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China. Her books have been translated into more than 40 languages and sold more than 15m copies outside mainland […]
Moore Sex, Moore Violence – Susanna Moore’s In the Cut reviewed in The Metro
Susanna Moore’s cult 1995 novel In The Cut, reissued this month, is not a novel to read alone at night. Within its first few chapters an actress has been found dead, her throat cut and her limbs ‘disarticulated’, to use the preferred adjective of Jimmy Malloy, the brutish NYPD detective in charge. Click here […]
FUNMI FETTO ON HER NEW BOOK PALETTE IN STELLA MAGAZINE
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Mirza Waheed’s Tell Her Everything has been longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2019
The US $25,000 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, which is now in its ninth year, announced its keenly awaited longlist today. The longlist of 15 novels, which represent the best in South Asian fiction writing, was unveiled by the chair of the jury panel Harish Trivedi at a special event at the Oxford Bookstore […]
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo review — well-placed to win the Booker
In its 50-year history, the Booker Prize has never been won by a black woman. That could change this month if Bernardine Evaristo, the 60-year-old British-Nigerian writer, wins the award for Girl, Woman, Other. It’s a triumphantly wide-ranging novel, told in a hybrid of prose and poetry, about the struggles, longings, conflicts and betrayals of […]
Jackie Kay introduces her selection of 10 BAME writers: Mary Jean Chan and Diana Evans have been listed
The third International Literature Showcase of 2019 has been revealed. We asked Jackie Kay to personally introduce her selection of UK-based BAME writers. I would have given a lot growing up to come across these writers. When I was a teenager the only black writer I came across was Wole Soyinka in his poem ‘Telephone Conversation’. […]