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Bernardine Evaristo

Bernardine Evaristo is the first black British woman to win the Booker Prize.

Bernardine Evaristo is the first black British woman to win the Booker Prize. Her novel Girl, Woman, Other shared the 2019 award with Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments. Mark Coles has been finding out about Evaristo's life as an activist, actor and writer.

Producer: Smita Patel
Researcher: May Cameron

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14 minutes

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Sun 20 Oct 201917:40
BBC Radio 4

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  • Sat 19 Oct 201919:00
    BBC Radio 4
  • Sun 20 Oct 201905:45
    BBC Radio 4
  • Sun 20 Oct 201917:40
    BBC Radio 4

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