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Bernardine Evaristo: Touchstones with Razia Iqbal (Online)

Art &
Culture

Touchstones is a new series in which creative people talk about works of literature, art, places or objects that give them solace or inspiration. In each episode the guest talks us through the touchstones that provide them with inspiration, hold particular emotional meaning or are simply compelling objects or works of art that they return to time and again. In this episode we will be joined by Bernadine Evaristo, Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other.

Watch the event live and have your chance to type in your question during the Q and A.

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Bernardine Evaristo: Touchstones with Razia Iqbal (Online)

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Speaker

  • Bernardine Evaristo

    Author and Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University

Chair

  • Razia Iqbal

    BBC journalist and broadcaster

 

Speakers are subject to change.

Location
  • Online event

Speakers

Speaker

Bernardine Evaristo

Author and Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University

Anglo-Nigerian award-winning author of several books of fiction and verse fiction that explore aspects of the African diaspora: past, present, real, imagined. Her novel Girl, Woman, Other was joint winner of the Booker Prize in 2019. Her writing also spans short fiction, reviews, essays, drama and writing for BBC radio. She is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University, London, and Vice Chair of the Royal Society of Literature. She was made an MBE in 2009. As a literary activist for inclusion, Bernardine has founded a number of successful initiatives, including Spread the Word writer development agency (1995-ongoing); the Complete Works mentoring scheme for poets of colour (2007-2017) and the Brunel International African Poetry Prize (2012-ongoing).
Chair

Razia Iqbal

BBC journalist and broadcaster

One of the main presenters of Newshour, the flagship international news and current affairs programme on BBC World Service radio. She also regularly presents The World Tonight on Radio 4.

 

Speakers are subject to change.