Teeming with life and crackling with energy — a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood
Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends and lovers, across the country and through the years.
Joyfully polyphonic and vibrantly contemporary, this is a gloriously new kind of history, a novel of our times: celebratory, ever-dynamic and utterly irresistible.
Teeming with life and crackling with energy — a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood
Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends and lovers, across the country and through the years.
Joyfully polyphonic and vibrantly contemporary, this is a gloriously new kind of history, a novel of our times: celebratory, ever-dynamic and utterly irresistible.
Add to your library to track progress and write reviews
Add to your library to track progress and write reviews
Find Girl, Woman, Other Bernardine Evaristo in PDF, EPUB, ebook, audiobook, print, or library editions.
Find Girl, Woman, Other Bernardine Evaristo in PDF, EPUB, ebook, audiobook, print, or library editions.
1 books in catalog
Explorations of the African diaspora across poetry, verse fiction, short stories, and novels have defined a major movement in contemporary British literature. Bernardine Evaristo made history when her eighth novel, Girl, Woman, Other, jointly won the Booker Prize in 2019, making her the first Black woman and Black British person to receive the award.
Born in London to an Anglo-Nigerian family, Evaristo earned a PhD in creative writing from Goldsmiths, University of London. Over a multi-decade career, she has written across fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, journalism, essays, literary criticism, and radio scripts for the BBC. Made an MBE in 2009 for her services to literature, she serves as Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University of London and Visiting Professor of Creative Media at the University of Oxford for 2025/6. She has also served in leadership roles for the Royal Society of Literature as Vice Chair and President.
Alongside her writing and academic positions, Evaristo has operated as an active advocate for inclusion in publishing. She co-founded the Spread the Word writer development agency in 1995, which remains active today. She established The Complete Works mentoring scheme for poets of colour, which ran from 2007 to 2017, and created the Brunel International African Poetry Prize in 2012 to support emerging poets from Africa and its diaspora.
Evaristo's body of work engages with aspects of the African diaspora, bridging past, present, real, and imagined histories. Her writing frequently blends verse and prose formats, employing fluid narrative structures and polyphonic perspectives to explore complex identities, race, gender, and social history.
1 books in catalog
Explorations of the African diaspora across poetry, verse fiction, short stories, and novels have defined a major movement in contemporary British literature. Bernardine Evaristo made history when her eighth novel, Girl, Woman, Other, jointly won the Booker Prize in 2019, making her the first Black woman and Black British person to receive the award.
Born in London to an Anglo-Nigerian family, Evaristo earned a PhD in creative writing from Goldsmiths, University of London. Over a multi-decade career, she has written across fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, journalism, essays, literary criticism, and radio scripts for the BBC. Made an MBE in 2009 for her services to literature, she serves as Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University of London and Visiting Professor of Creative Media at the University of Oxford for 2025/6. She has also served in leadership roles for the Royal Society of Literature as Vice Chair and President.
Alongside her writing and academic positions, Evaristo has operated as an active advocate for inclusion in publishing. She co-founded the Spread the Word writer development agency in 1995, which remains active today. She established The Complete Works mentoring scheme for poets of colour, which ran from 2007 to 2017, and created the Brunel International African Poetry Prize in 2012 to support emerging poets from Africa and its diaspora.
Evaristo's body of work engages with aspects of the African diaspora, bridging past, present, real, and imagined histories. Her writing frequently blends verse and prose formats, employing fluid narrative structures and polyphonic perspectives to explore complex identities, race, gender, and social history.
