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Bernardine Evaristo – Author
Stephen Sackur speaks to the author Bernardine Evaristo, the first black woman to win the prestigious Booker Prize for Fiction. Awards are gratifying symbols, but how deep does the cultural change go?
In any society the voices that are listened to, the stories that are shared, say much about who is deemed to belong, who is excluded. On that basis Britain is changing. HARDtalk’s Stephen Sackur speaks to the author Bernardine Evaristo. She is the first black woman to win the prestigious Booker Prize for Fiction. Awards are gratifying symbols, but how deep does the cultural change go?
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