Bernardine Evaristo: ‘I’m grateful I was the first – but a Black woman hasn’t won the Booker prize since me’

Put it this way, I don’t think it could have gone any better had I won the prize on my own.”

The world, it seems, had finally caught up to her and in 2019, Evaristo made history as the first Black woman to win the Booker Prize.

“Although I’m wiser… wiser and much more careful about what I say – in case you hadn’t noticed!