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04/04/2011

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Bernardine Evaristo
Bibliography

"Hello Mum", a novella (Penguin UK, 2010)
"Lara" - new, expanded version (Bloodaxe Books, 2009)
Blonde Roots (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin, 2008 & Riverhead/Penguin, USA in 2009)
Soul Tourists (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin, 2005)
The Emperor's Babe (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin, 2001)
Lara (Angela Royal Publishing, 1997)

Honours and Awards

Her awards and honors include the EMMA Best Book Award, Arts Council Writers Award, a NESTA Fellowship Award, Blonde Roots was long-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction and won the inaugural Orange Prize Youth Panel and the Big Red Read Award - both in 2009. Blonde Roots is also currently on the long-list for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. In November 2009 The Emperor's Babe was selected by the Times newspaper (UK) as one of the '100 Best Books of the Decade'. Bernardine Evaristo was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2004 [1], of the Royal Society of Arts in 2006, and she was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2009 Queen's Birthday Honours List.

2010 The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (nominee - current) USA
2010 Poetry Book Society Commendation for poetry anthology 'Ten', co-ed with Daljit Nagra
2009 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (nominated/longlist)
2009 Big Red Read Award (Fiction and overall winner)
2009 Awarded an MBE in Queen's Birthday Honours List
2009 Winner, Orange Prize Youth Panel Award
2009 Orange Prize for Fiction (longlist)
2006 Elected a Fellow, Royal Society of Arts
2004 Elected a Fellow, Royal Society of Literature
2003 NESTA Fellowship Award
2000 Arts Council Writers Award
1999 BT EMMA Best Book Award

Le opere della Evaristo sono stati per nove volte tra i "Libri dell'anno" sui giornali britannici.

"The Emperor's Babe" è stato scelto dal Times come uno dei migliori 100 libri della decade nel novembre 2009.


Bernardine Evaristo è nata e cresciuta a Londra da mamma inglese e padre nigeriano. Quarta di quattro figli, è cresciuta a Woolwich, South London, e ha studiato come attrice e ha lavorato in teatro. È autrice di due romanzi in versi acclamati dalla critica: "Lara" (1997 e 2009 nuova versione), che segue le radici di una famiglia mista inglese-nigeriana-brasiliana-irlandese per oltre 150 anni, tre continenti e sette generazioni; e "The Emperor's Babe" (2001), la pioneristica storia... wk-ao402-advise-g-20090122154559