The Booker-winning writer has returned to the stage, penning a drama defending the NHS. She talks about 'bittersweet' success " and getting caught up in attacks on Nicola Sturgeon Bernardine Evaristo has had several firsts lately. But long before she became the first black female novelist to win the Booker prize, for Girl, Woman, Other in 2019, she set up a groundbreaking theatre company for black women, the first of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AM on July 5, 2020