Booker prize 2019
Booker winner Bernardine Evaristo writing memoir about 'never giving up'
Manifesto will chart the first Black Booker prize winner’s 40-year journey to literary centre-stage and encourage others to pursue creative fulfilment
Alison Flood
27, Mar, 2021 @9:00 AM
This decade we’ve become obsessed with reading – and writing – about ourselves | Rebecca Watson
It’s no longer just celebrities whose lives we want to read about it, says novelist Rebecca Watson
Rebecca Watson
23, Dec, 2019 @2:07 PM
The Guardian view on arts prizes: a 20th-century phenomenon? | Editorial
Editorial: This year’s Booker and Turner prizes tell us artists and even judges are repudiating the winner-takes-all award. It may be time to find new ways to celebrate the arts
Editorial
15, Dec, 2019 @6:25 PM
All deserve prizes? That’s no truer in art (including the Booker and Turner prizes) than in life
If we salute everyone, then we risk rewarding no one, writes a judge for next year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction
Viv Groskop
07, Dec, 2019 @12:05 PM
‘Another author’: outrage after BBC elides Bernardine Evaristo’s Booker win
News presenter alluded to her joint victory with Margaret Atwood but failed to give the name of Girl, Woman, Other’s author
Alison Flood
04, Dec, 2019 @1:12 PM
Without youth theatre, I would never have won the Booker prize | Bernardine Evaristo
Acting onstage was how I discovered my creativity, away from class and racial division, says Booker prize-winning novelist Bernardine Evaristo
Bernardine Evaristo
24, Oct, 2019 @7:01 AM
Bernardine Evaristo doubles lifetime sales in five days after joint Booker win
Almost 6,000 copies of Girl, Woman, Other sold in the week after Evaristo’s win alongside Margaret Atwood
Alison Flood
22, Oct, 2019 @4:25 PM
Judging the Booker prize: 'I'm proud of our decision'
Picking a winner is an impossible task, says Booker judge Afua Hirsch. Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo both deserved to win
Afua Hirsch
16, Oct, 2019 @11:00 AM
The Booker prize judges have exposed the doublethink behind our arts awards | Charlotte Higgins
Naming Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo joint winners has pulled back the curtain on what we’re told is the ‘best’
Charlotte Higgins
15, Oct, 2019 @5:57 PM
Booker winners Bernardine Evaristo and Margaret Atwood on breaking the rules
The judges staged a ‘joyful mutiny’ to name the pair joint winners of the literary prize. And that’s not all that unites them
Claire Armitstead
15, Oct, 2019 @5:00 PM
Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo share Booker prize 2019
Judging panel break rules in choosing The Testaments and Girl, Woman, Other as joint winners
Alison Flood
14, Oct, 2019 @11:23 PM
Booker judges try to have it both ways
Awarding joint prize to Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo feels like a fudge
Justine Jordan
14, Oct, 2019 @8:52 PM
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