Bernardine Evaristo – författare

Amma är en radikal pjäsförfattare som i medelåldern ser sin karriär ta fart. Nu ska hon sätta upp en pjäs på National Theatre, ett genombrott som förunnats få svarta dramatiker. I publiken sitter gamla vänner och partners, var och en med sin egen historia, och med olika erfarenheter av att leva som svart i England. Flicka, kvinna, annan är en kollektivroman där tolv öden interfolieras. Tillsammans skapar rösterna ett modernt körverk som tagit världen med storm.

”En imponerande, stark roman om svarta familjer i Storbritannien, om deras kamp, smärta, skratt, längtan och kärlek. Stilen är passionerad, rakbladsvass, full av energi och humor.” Juryn för Booker Priset.

”Flicka, kvinna, annan förändrade mitt sätt att tänka” – Tom Stoppard TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

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Brought to you by Penguin. ***WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019***RECIPIENT OF THE WOMEN’S PRIZE OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION AWARD THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThis is Britain as you''ve never read it.This is Britain as it has never been told.From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twentieth century to the teens of the twenty-first, Girl, Woman, Other follows a cast of twelve characters on their personal journeys through this country and the last hundred years. They''re each looking for something - a shared past, an unexpected future, a place to call home, somewhere to fit in, a lover, a missed mother, a lost father, even just a touch of hope . . . ''Masterful . . . A choral love song to black womanhood in modern Great Britain'' Elle ''Ambitious, flowing and all-encompassing, an offbeat narrative that''ll leave your mind in an invigorated whirl... [It] unites poetry, social history, women''s voices and beyond.'' Stylist''Bernardine Evaristo can take any story from any time and turn it into something vibrating with life'' Ali Smith, author of How to be both''Sparkling, inventive'' Sunday Times''Funny, sad, tender and true, deserves to win awards'' Red''Brims with vitality'' Financial Times''Exceptional. You have to order it right now'' Stylist SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2019© Bernardine Evaristo 2019 (P) Penguin Audio 2019

FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF GIRL, WOMAN, OTHERRECIPIENT OF THE WOMEN’S PRIZE OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION AWARD Welcome to a world turned upside down. One minute, Doris, from England, is playing hide-and-seek with her sisters in the fields behind their cottage. The next, someone puts a bag over her head and she ends up in the hold of a slave-ship sailing to the New World . . .In this fantastically imaginative inversion of the transatlantic slave trade - in which ''whytes'' are enslaved by black people - Bernardine Evaristo has created a thought-provoking satire that is as accessible and readable as it is intelligent and insightful. Blonde Roots brings the shackles and cries of long-ago barbarity uncomfortably close and raises timely questions about the society of today.''A bold and brilliant game of counterfactual history. Evaristo keep[s] her wit and anger at a spicy simmer throughout'' Daily Telegraph''So human and real. Re-imagines past and present with refreshing humour and intelligence'' Guardian''A brilliant satire whose flashes of comedy make the underlying tragedy all the more poignant'' Scotland on SundayLONGLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2009WINNER OF THE ORANGE YOUTH PANEL AWARD 2009FINALIST FOR THE HURSTON WRIGHT LEGACY AWARD 2010© Bernadine Evaristo 2008 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Brought to you by Penguin.FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF GIRL, WOMAN, OTHERRECIPIENT OF THE WOMEN’S PRIZE OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION AWARD WINNER OF THE NESTA FELLOWSHIP AWARD 2003''Wildly entertaining, deeply affecting'' Ali Smith, author of How to be both and AutumnA coming-of-age tale to make the muses themselves roar with laughter and weep for pity -- sassy, razor-sharp and transformative -- from the acclaimed author of Mr LovermanLondinium, AD 211. Zuleika is a modern girl living in an ancient world. She''s a back-alley firecracker, a scruffy Nubian babe with tangled hair and bare feet - and she''s just been married off a fat old Roman. Life as a teenage bride is no joke but Zeeks is a born survivor. She knows this city like the back of her hand: its slave girls and drag queens, its shining villas and rotting slums. She knows how to get by. Until one day she catches the eye of the most powerful man on earth, the Roman Emperor, and her trouble really starts...Silver-tongued and merry-eyed, this is a story in song and verse, a joyful mash-up of today and yesterday. Kaleidoscoping distant past and vivid present, The Emperor''s Babe asks what it means to be a woman and to survive in this thrilling, brutal, breathless world.© Bernadine Evaristo 2002 (P) Penguin 2020

Brought to you by Penguin.RECIPIENT OF THE WOMEN’S PRIZE OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION AWARD Stanley Williams, angst-ridden banker and boffin, wonders whether there''s more to life than his daily nine-to-five grind. One night he''s dragged to a disco at Piccadilly Circus and there he meets Jessie: artiste, motormouth, ducker and diver. She swoops Stanley out of his soulless life and off on a rollercoaster road trip across Europe, bringing him face to face with a host of forgotten luminaries from the rich mix of black European history and literature.© Bernardine Evaristo 2006 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Brought to you by Penguin. RECIPIENT OF THE WOMEN’S PRIZE OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION AWARD It''s a hot summer afternoon. Tension is in the air. A gang of youths on bikes gathers outside a chip shop. A teenage boy is stabbed and left bleeding on the street.The boy''s motherwonders how this could have happened to her son. She is full of questions, but when the answers lie so close to home, are they really what she wants to hear?© Bernadine Evaristo 2010 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Brought to you by Penguin. RECIPIENT OF THE WOMEN’S PRIZE OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION AWARD The powerful, urgent manifesto on never giving up from Booker prize-winning trailblazer, Bernardine EvaristoBernardine Evaristo''s 2019 Booker win - the first by a Black woman - was a revolutionary moment both for British culture and for her. After three decades as a trailblazing writer, teacher and activist, she moved from the margins to centre stage, taking her place in the spotlight at last. Her journey was a long one, but she made it, and she made history.MANIFESTO is Bernardine Evaristo''s intimate and inspirational, no-holds-barred account of how she did it, refusing to let any barriers stand in her way. She charts her creative rebellion against the mainstream and her life-long commitment to the imaginative exploration of ''untold'' stories. And drawing deeply on her own experiences, she offers a vital contribution to current conversations around social issues such as race, class, feminism, sexuality and aging.This is a unique book about staying true to yourself and to your vision. It''s about how to be unstoppable - in your craft, your work, your life. It is Bernardine Evaristo''s manifesto for never giving up.''Bernardine Evaristo is one of those writers who should be read by everyone, everywhere.'' Elif Shafak''Bernardine Evaristo is one of Britain''s best writers, an iconic and unique voice, filled with warmth, subtlety and humanity. Exceptional'' Nikesh Shukla''Bernardine Evaristo is the most daring, imaginative and innovative of writers'' Inua Ellams© Bernadine Evaristo 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021