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Bernardine Evaristo

1959 - Today

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Bernardine Anne Mobolaji Evaristo (born 28 May 1959) is an English author and Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University of London. Her novel Girl, Woman, Other jointly won the Booker Prize in 2019 alongside Margaret Atwood's The Testaments, making her the first black woman to win the Booker. The novel won many other awards including two British Book awards (aka "Nibbies"). In 2025, Evaristo was selected from among all previous Women's Prize for Fiction winners and nominees as the recipient of the Women's Prize Outstanding Contribution Award, a one-off literary honour to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Women's Prize for Fiction. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2024). Bernardine Evaristo is the 6,500th most popular writer (down from 6,144th in 2024), the 5,868th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,087th in 2019) and the 656th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Bernardine Evaristo ranks 6,500 out of 7,302. Before her are Sylvia Browne, Andrew Sarris, Dimitris Lyacos, Robert Rodat, Caroline Criado Perez, and Vin Scully. After her are Eleanor Hallowell Abbott, Damon Galgut, Laura Restrepo, Marina Nemat, Walter Besant, and Anthony Boucher.

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Among people born in 1959, Bernardine Evaristo ranks 552. Before her are Stoyan Deltchev, Greg Burke, Armin Kogler, Derek Sikua, Nick Griffin, and Richard LaGravenese. After her are Vicky Ntetema, Todd Solondz, Peter Pacult, Catherine Mouchet, Liang Wudong, and Mircea Fulger.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Bernardine Evaristo ranks 5,870 out of 8,785. Before her are James Fleet (1952), Nick Griffin (1959), Alex Cox (1954), Shaun Wright-Phillips (1981), George Moorhouse (1901), and Alan Hodgkinson (1936). After her are Peter Ashdown (1934), Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880), Adrian Metcalfe (1942), Marian McPartland (1918), Francis Maitland Balfour (1851), and Tony Cascarino (1962).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Bernardine Evaristo ranks 656. Before her are Colley Cibber (1671), Louis de Bernières (1954), Mark Akenside (1721), Compton Mackenzie (1883), Michael Rosen (1946), and Saunders Lewis (1893). After her are Walter Besant (1836), Naomi Mitchison (1897), Elizabeth Inchbald (1753), Caryl Churchill (1938), Angie Sage (1952), and Mo Hayder (1962).

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