{"id":6826,"date":"2024-03-07T11:58:08","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T11:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nerobookawards.com\/dummylocation\/?page_id=6826"},"modified":"2024-03-14T09:06:51","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T09:06:51","slug":"bernardine-evaristo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nerobookawards.com\/dummylocation\/bernardine-evaristo\/","title":{"rendered":"BERNARDINE EVARISTO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group cover_group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull is-light is-repeated\" style=\"min-height:40vh;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-0 has-background-dim\"><\/span><div role=\"img\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-5223 is-repeated\" style=\"background-position:50% 50%;background-image:url(http:\/\/nerobookawards.com\/dummylocation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Paper-texture-1.png)\"><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><span class=\"nba-black green\">ABOUT THE<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"nba-black line-2 green\">JUDGES<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover is-light\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;min-height:2%;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-0 has-background-dim\" style=\"background-color:#8094bb\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:3rem;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:3rem;padding-left:0rem\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:4rem\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:1rem;padding-right:3rem;padding-bottom:1rem;padding-left:3rem;flex-basis:28%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full has-custom-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1137\" height=\"1137\" src=\"http:\/\/nerobookawards.com\/dummylocation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Bernadine-Evaristo-round.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6847\" style=\"border-radius:50%;border-top-color:#ffffff00;border-top-width:10px;border-right-color:#ffffff00;border-bottom-color:#ffffff00;border-bottom-width:10px;border-left-color:#ffffff00\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nerobookawards.com\/dummylocation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Bernadine-Evaristo-round.png 1137w, http:\/\/nerobookawards.com\/dummylocation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Bernadine-Evaristo-round-300x300.png 300w, http:\/\/nerobookawards.com\/dummylocation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Bernadine-Evaristo-round-1024x1024.png 1024w, http:\/\/nerobookawards.com\/dummylocation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Bernadine-Evaristo-round-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/nerobookawards.com\/dummylocation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Bernadine-Evaristo-round-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1137px) 100vw, 1137px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-container-core-column-is-layout-3 wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-right:1rem;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:1rem;flex-basis:60%\">\n<div style=\"height:28px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>BERNARDINE EVARISTO<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:22px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The author of 10 books, Bernardine Evaristo won the Booker Prize 2019 with her novel <em>Girl, Woman, Other,<\/em>&nbsp;an international bestseller. In 2021, she published a memoir, <em>Manifesto: On Never Giving Up<\/em> (2021), her first non-fiction book, followed by <em>Look Again: Feminism for Tate Britain<\/em> (2021). She has chaired and judged many prizes including the Women&#8217;s Prize for Fiction (2021) and received many honours including the British Book Award\u2019s Fiction Book of the Year &amp; Author of the Year (2020.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:29px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>She has been the subject of two documentary series, <em>Imagine<\/em> and <em>The Southbank Show<\/em>, and as an arts activist she has set up many successful arts inclusion projects and curates a black British literature publishing series with Penguin UK called Black Britain: Writing Back. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:29px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>She is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University London, an Honorary Fellow of St. Anne\u2019s College, University of Oxford, an International Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and President of the Royal Society of Literature, the first person of colour to hold the position since it was founded in 1820.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The author of 10 books, Bernardine Evaristo won the Booker Prize 2019 with her novel Girl, Woman, Other,\u00a0an <a href='http:\/\/nerobookawards.com\/dummylocation\/bernardine-evaristo\/'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6850,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"wp-custom-template-standard-blank","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6826","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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