Bernardine evaristo biography of william hill

Bernardine Evaristo was born in Woolwich, south east London, the fourth of eight children, to an English mother, a schoolteacher, and Nigerian father, a welder and local Labour councillor.

She was educated at Eltham Hill Girls Grammar School, the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama, and Goldsmiths, University of London, where she earned a PhD in Creative Writing. During her teenage years she acted at Greenwich Young People’s Theatre.

She is Reader in Creative Writing at Brunel University London.

Evaristo is the author of the books Mr Loverman (2013), Hello Mum (2010), Blonde Roots (2008), Soul Tourists (2005), The Emperor’s Babe (2001; all Penguin), Island Of Abraham (Peepal Tree, 1994), and Lara (Bloodaxe, 2009).

Her writing is characterised by experimentation, ranging in genre through poetry, fiction, verse-novels, drama and literary criticism, and typically challenges the myths around various Afro-diasporic histories and identities.

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