The people I never thanked for what they selflessly gave me in my career; when I was younger I just took it for granted.
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Bernadine Evaristo
English author and academic
United Kingdom · b. 1959
Arts and letters
About
Born in London, Bernadine Evaristo, 61, has published eight books of fiction and verse. Girl, Woman, Other won the Booker prize in 2019 and fiction book of the year at the British Book awards in June. Currently professor of creative writing at Brunel University, she lives in London with her husband.
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Disappear by Beyoncé.
I cried after I won the Booker.
When I met my husband, David, in 2006, on Dating Direct.
A pair of Russell & Bromley boots with studs. I have had them for eight years and wear them all the time.
Travelling Europe with a friend, when I was 29. She was driving and the brakes went, on one of those vertiginous Italian mountains. It was terrifying for the 20 minutes it took to coast down the mountain.
On a cosmetics production line. I walked out after half a day.
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