Bernardine Evaristo won the Booker Prize for her novel Girl, Woman, Other just two years ago, but she has been writing plays, poetry, short stories and novels for over four decades.
Evaristo has just published her memoir Manifesto: On Never Giving Up.
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In it, she describes the racism she experienced as a child in southeast London - the fourth of eight children to an English woman and a Nigerian man.
Evaristo also writes about the freedom she found in the theatre as a young woman, her tumultuous relationships and the force of creativity.
