Bernardine Evaristo on MANIFESTO: ON NEVER GIVING UP
\u201cWell, this is the thing about being an overnight success after forty years.\u201d Bernardine Evaristo made history when\xa0Girl, Woman, Other\xa0won the 2019 Booker Prize, for she is the first Black woman and the first Black British person to have won the coveted prize in its more than fifty-year history. Bernardine joins us on the show to talk about her fabulous memoir,\xa0Manifesto: On Never Giving\xa0Up, \u201covernight fame\u201d (after decades of work in literature and the theater), her creative process, the writers who\u2019ve inspired her work in the theater and on the page\u2014and she even offers some advice for those who are stuck in their work and see no way through. Featured books: Manifesto: On Never Giving Up and Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo and\xa0For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange. Poured Over is produced and hosted by Miwa Messer and engineered by Harry Liang. Follow us here for new episodes Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional bonus episodes on Saturdays).