Manifesto: On Never Giving Up

Manifesto: On Never Giving Up

by Bernardine Evaristo
Manifesto: On Never Giving Up

Manifesto: On Never Giving Up

by Bernardine Evaristo

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Bernardine Evaristo, winner of the Booker Prize for her novel Girl, Woman, Other, considers her life, loves, family and career while making a persuasive case for the rewards of perseverance, determination, being brave and taking risks. Keep on keeping on! Rife with unexpected turns, Manifesto is lively, moving and fun. Evaristo’s is an inspiring memoir infused with an elegantly wise spirit.

  
From the bestselling and Booker Prize–winning author of Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo’s memoir of her own life and writing, and her manifesto on unstoppability, creativity, and activism

Bernardine Evaristo’s 2019 Booker Prize win was a historic and revolutionary occasion, with Evaristo being the first Black woman and first Black British person ever to win the prize in its fifty-year history. Girl, Woman, Other was named a favorite book of the year by President Obama and Roxane Gay, was translated into thirty-five languages, and has now reached more than a million readers.

Evaristo’s astonishing nonfiction debut, Manifesto, is a vibrant and inspirational account of Evaristo’s life and career as she rebelled against the mainstream and fought over several decades to bring her creative work into the world. With her characteristic humor, Evaristo describes her childhood as one of eight siblings, with a Nigerian father and white Catholic mother, tells the story of how she helped set up Britain’s first Black women’s theatre company, remembers the queer relationships of her twenties, and recounts her determination to write books that were absent in the literary world around her. She provides a hugely powerful perspective to contemporary conversations around race, class, feminism, sexuality, and aging. She reminds us of how far we have come, and how far we still have to go. In Manifesto, Evaristo charts her theory of unstoppability, showing creative people how they too can visualize and find success in their work, ignoring the naysayers.

Both unconventional memoir and inspirational text, Manifesto is a unique reminder to us all to persist in doing work we believe in, even when we might feel overlooked or discounted. Evaristo shows us how we too can follow in her footsteps, from first vision, to insistent perseverance, to eventual triumph.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780802158901
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Publication date: 01/18/2022
Pages: 240
Sales rank: 1,100,176
Product dimensions: 5.60(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Bernardine Evaristo is the 2019 winner of the Booker Prize for Girl, Woman, Other, which was a national bestseller and a winner and finalist for many awards including the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Dublin Literary Award. Evaristo is the author of seven other books that explore aspects of the African diaspora. Her writing spans verse fiction, short fiction, poetry, essays, literary criticism, and drama. Evaristo is President of the Royal Society of Literature, Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel UniversityLondon, and an Honorary Fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford. She received an OBE in 2020, and lives in London with her husband. Her most recent book is Manifesto: On Never Giving Up.

@BernardineEvari www.bevaristo.com

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

1 Heritage, childhood, family, origins 3

2 Houses, flats, rooms, homes 47

3 The women and men who came and went 77

4 Drama, community, performance, politics 115

5 Poetry, fiction, verse fiction, fusion fiction 143

6 Influences, sources, language, education 177

7 The self, ambition, transformation, activism 193

Conclusion 215

The Evaristo Manifesto 221

Acknowledgements 227

Essay 231

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