by Bernardine Evaristo · Hamish Hamilton · tapa dura · ISBN 9780241534991
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«Manifesto: On Never Giving Up» is the memoir by Bernardine Evaristo, published by Hamish Hamilton in hardback (224 pages, in English).
Bernardine Evaristo, the first Black woman to win the Booker Prize, reflects on her childhood marked by racism and her rise as a writer and activist. She recounts her creative rebellion, the founding of Britain's first theatre company for Black women, and her reflections on race, class, feminism and sexuality.
First British edition published on 7 October 2021 by the Hamish Hamilton imprint, part of the Penguin Books group.
Suitable for readers of memoirs and biographies of writers, and for those seeking testimonies on racism, feminism, identity and artistic creation.
Bernardine Anne Mobolaji Evaristo is an English author and Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University of London. She is Visiting Professor of Creative Media 2025/6 at the University of Oxford. Her novel Girl, Woman, Other jointly won the Booker Prize in 2019 alongside Margaret Atwood's The Testaments, making her the first black woman to win the Booker. The novel won many other awards including two British Book awards. In 2025, Evaristo was selected from among all previous Women's Prize for Fiction winners and nominees as the recipient of the Women's Prize Outstanding Contribution Award, a one-off literary honour to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Women's Prize for Fiction. She served for four years as President of the Royal Society of Literature, the second woman and the first Black or Asian person to hold the role since it was founded in 1820. She was elected President Emerita once her tenure was completed in 2025.
