Manifesto: On Never Giving Up

Evaristo’s nonfiction debut, Manifesto, is an intimate & inspirational account of Evaristo’s life & career as she rebelled against the mainstream to fight to bring her creative work into the world. She recalls her childhood & teenaged years as a young actor & playwright in London, details her early political awakenings & activism, & recounts her determination to tell stories that were absent in the literary world around her. In her over 3 decades of centering the stories & histories of Black Britons, Evaristo refused to let any barriers stand in her way. In Manifesto, she charts her theory of unstoppability, & explains how she broke with convention to achieve fulfillment both artistic & personal. Drawing deeply on her own varied experiences & the people who have inspired her, Evaristo offers a vital contribution to conversations around race, class, feminism, sexuality, & aging.

Manifesto is a unique inspiration to us all to persist in doing work that we believe in, even when we might feel overlooked or discounted, following in Evaristo’s footsteps, from first vision, to continued perseverance, to eventual triumph.

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Bernardine Evaristo is the 2019 winner of the Booker Prize for Girl, Woman, Other, which was a national bestseller & a winner & finalist for many awards including the Women’s Prize for Fiction & the Dublin Literary Award. Evaristo is the author of 7 other books that explore aspects of the African diaspora. Her writing spans verse fiction, short fiction, poetry, essays, literary criticism, & dram