by Bernardine Evaristo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780802156983
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«Girl, Woman, Other» is the literary novel by Bernardine Evaristo, published by Black Cat in paperback (464 pages, in English).
The novel weaves together the stories of twelve Black British women from different generations and social classes, from a playwright to a successful banker. With prose inspired by poetry, Bernardine Evaristo portrays contemporary Britain and the colonial legacy, exploring identity at its intersections of race, gender, sexuality and class.
The novel won the 2019 Booker Prize, making Bernardine Evaristo the first Black woman to receive this award.
Recommended for book clubs and for those seeking contemporary fiction with diverse voices, feminist perspective and LGBTQ+ sensibility.
Bernardine Anne Mobolaji Evaristo is an English author and Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University of London. She is Visiting Professor of Creative Media 2025/6 at the University of Oxford. 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. 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. She served for four years as President of the Royal Society of Literature, the second woman and the first Black or Asian person to hold the role since it was founded in 1820. She was elected President Emerita once her tenure was completed in 2025.
