Born: 28 May 1959, United Kingdom
Died: NA
Country most active: United Kingdom
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The following is excerpted from Infinite Women founder Allison Tyra’s book The View from the Hill: Women Who Made Their Mark After 40.
“When I won the Booker Prize in 2019 for my novel Girl, Woman, Other, I became an ‘overnight success’ – after forty years working professionally in the arts.” So begins Manifesto: On Never Giving Up, the memoir of Bernardine Evaristo, the first woman of African descent to win the Booker. The novel in question was published the year Evaristo turned 60. She goes on to write, “My career hadn’t been without its achievements and recognition, but I wasn’t widely known. The novel became a #1 bestseller sold in many foreign languages and received the kind of attention I had long desired in my work.”