Bernardine Evaristo: On Never Giving Up

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In her memoir, Manifesto: On Never Giving Up, Bernardine Evaristo brilliantly explains the courage, integrity, optimism, resourcefulness, and tenacity that were a necessary part of her success. Those qualities earned their reward when she won the Booker Prize in 2019 for Girl, Woman, Other. As the Book Festival celebrates its 40th anniversary, Evaristo discusses her latest book and looks back over key events in her life as a writer, with Hannah Lavery.

Categories: Fiction, Memoir, Words/Reading, Writing/Publishing

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What Makes a Writer

To mark the Book Festival’s 40th year, we have invited five leading writers to join us in a series that explores that most creative and consuming of vocations: the writing life. In this series, Jackie Kay, Val McDermid, Elif Shafak, Bernardine Evaristo, and Ali Smith cast their minds back over their careers and reflect on some of the key moments and influences that have defined them as writers. What compels them to keep going despite the inherent difficulties of the task?…

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