"Never under estimate the power of the slap. Now bend your elbow, relax your hand and step trough. Make it snap." Ed | Ed's Manifesto

The Bernardine Manifesto Bernardine Evaristo in conversation with Nandini Nair Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo’s memoir, Manifesto: On Never Giving Up, is an inspirational account of her life and career as she rebelled against the mainstream and fought over several decades to bring her creative work into the world. The powerful narrative takes us through her life while examining contemporary conversations around race, class, feminism, sexuality, and ageing. In a session moderated by Nand

Author of Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo has been pushing the boundaries of fiction since the 1990s, from verse novel to play script and prose. Going to the library, youth theatre, church and politics all fed into Evaristo ‘becoming an agent of creativity’. How did your hobbies feed into your career? Discover Evaristo's writing journey: https://bit.ly/3Enplxo | British Library