Evaristo, Bernadine
About Bernadine Evaristo
Portrait and Profile (National Portrait Gallery)
Reviews
Gee, Maggie. “Mr Loverman by Bernardine Evaristo – Review.” The Guardian, 31 Aug. 2013
Crane, David. “Mr. Loverman.” Spectator, 14 Sep. 2013
Field, Douglas. “Bricks in a Wall.” Times Literary Supplement, no. 5759, 2013
Cheuse, Alan. “Off the Air.” World Literature Today, vol. 83, no. 4, 2009
Armah, Esther. “Booktalk: White Slaves - New Path to Discuss Race.” New York Amsterdam News, vol. 100, no. 12, 2009
Phillips, Rowan Ricardo. “The Emperor’s Babe.” Callaloo, vol. 27, no. 2, 2004
Berger, Roger A. “The Emperor’s Babe.” Library Journal, vol. 127, no. 7, 2002
Zaleski, Jeff. “The Emperor’s Babe.” Publishers Weekly, vol. 249, no. 8, 2002
Interviews
Niven, Alastair. “Bernadine Evaristo.” Writing across Worlds: Contemporary Writers Talk, Nasta (ed.), 2004
Criticism
Moji, Polo B. “The Hauntological Imaginary in Bernadine Evaristo's Soul Tourists (2005).” Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, vol 56, no. 1, 2019
Karschay, Stephan and Joanna Rostek. “'Man Haf Fe Do Wha Man Haf Fe Do': Humour and Identity (Re)Formation in Bernadine Evaristo's Mr Loverman.” Anglistik, vol. 27, no. 1, 2016
Kottemann, Kathrin. “Cultural Schizophrenia and Postcolonial Identity in Derek Walcott’s Dream on Monkey Mountain and Bernadine Evaristo’s Lara.” Race and Displacement: Nation, Migration, and Identity in the Twenty-First Century, Marouan and Simmons (eds.), 2013
Rahbek, Ulla. “‘Repping Your Ends’: Imagined Borders in Recent British Multicultural Fiction.” Literature & Theology, vol. 27, no. 4, 2013
Cuder-Domínguez, Pilar. “Ethnic Cartographies of London in Bernadine Evaristo and Zadie Smith.” European Journal of English Studies, vol. 8, no. 2, 2004
Sauerberg, Lars Ole. “Repositioning Narrative: The Late-Twentieth-Century Verse Novels of Vikram Seth, Derek Walcott, Craig Raine, Anthony Burgess, and Bernadine Evaristo.” Orbis Litterarum, vol. 59, no. 6, 2004
Works
Novels
Girl, Woman, Other (2019)
Mr. Loverman (2013)
Hello Mum (2010)
Blonde Roots (2008)
Soul Tourists (2005)
The Emperor’s Babe (2001)
Lara (1997)
Poetry Collections
Island of Abraham (1994)
Essays/Articles/Non-Fiction/Short Stories
“A Letter to My Post-Lockdown Self: ‘Keep Listening to the Birds’.” The Guardian, 23 May 2020
“The White Man’s Liberation Front.” New Statesman, 1 Apr. 2020
“The Road not Taken: Bernadine Evaristo on Her Career in the Theatre.” New Statesman, 12 Dec. 2019
“Without Youth Theatre, I Would Never Have Won the Booker Prize.” The Guardian, 24 Oct. 2019
“Bernardine Evaristo on Woolwich: 'We Weren’t Allowed to Play Outside'.” The Guardian, 7 Sep. 2019
“‘We Always Knew She Was on Our Side’: Bernardine Evaristo on Toni Morrison.” The Guardian, 10 Aug. 2019
“The Nowhere Man by Kamala Markandaya Review – Worryingly Relevant.” The Guardian, 29 Jul. 2019
“Marlon James’ Black Leopard, Black Wolf: A Work of Literary Magic.” New Statesman, 20 Feb. 2019
“Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Review – Deliciously Daring.” The Guardian, 31 Dec. 2018
“The Urgency of Jesmyne Ward.” New Statesman, 19 May 2018
“Orange Is the New Black Shows what Internet Television Can Do.” New Statesman, 27 Dec. 2016
“Ta-Nehesi Coates and Writing about Racism in America.” New Statesman, 22 Mar. 2016
As editor with Karen McCarthy Woolf. “Black Britain: Beyond Definition [Special Issue].” Wasafiri, vol. 25, no. 4, 2010
Audio- and Audiovisual Material
Booker Prize Winner, Bernardine Evaristo, Full Q&A at The Oxford Union, YouTube, 20 Jun. 2020
Bernardine Evaristo's Waterstones Bristol Literary Takeover, YouTube, 18 Mar. 2020
Bernardine Evaristo on Her Historic Booker Win, CNN, 9 Dec. 2019
Bernardine Evaristo: The Waterstones Interview - Booker Prize 2019 Winner, YouTube, 17 Oct. 2019
Bernardine Evaristo Reading and in Conversation at #BritLitBerlin 2017, YouTube, 12 Feb. 2017