Writer’s tale fascinating

• Published date: 10 March 2022
• Publication title: Taupo Weekender

By Bernardine Evaristo, Penguin Random House

A couple of years ago, Bernardine Evaristo became the first black woman to win the Booker Prize for Girl, Woman, Other. This is her own story.

Since then she’s collected many British book awards for her fiction, and is London born. But it’s her mixed heritage that has dominated her life and her fiction writing. Her mother was white, her father Nigerian and she is one of eight children, so racism has been part of her existence and determined limitations from birth. But she rose above those...