About the event
Why do some readers think that certain novels are not for them because they are about communities different from their own? How can we read fiction in order to appreciate thematic undercurrents, both beyond and encompassing, for example, notions of race and gender?
How can literature bridge perceived gaps and expand our sense of a shared humanity?
In this talk, Booker prize-winner Bernardine Evaristo will draw on some of the novels published in the first half of 2023 by British women of the African diaspora including Yomi Adegoke, Jacqueline Crooks, Diana Evans, Liv Little, Nicola Williams and Vanessa Walters.
Speaker
Bernardine Evaristo won the Booker Prize 2019 with her eighth book, Girl, Woman, Other (Penguin 2019). The recipient of many honours, she was named ‘Person of the Year’ by the UK Bookseller magazine in 2021. She is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University London, an Honorary Fellow of St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford and President of the Royal Society of Literature.
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