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Bernardine Evaristo

BERNARDINE EVARISTO

  (1959 - )
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Curtis Brown Group Ltd  

Bernardine Evaristo was born in Woolwich, south east London, the fourth of eight children, to an English mother and Nigerian father. Her father was a welder and local Labour councillor and her mother a schoolteacher. She was educated at Eltham Hill Girls Grammar School, the Rose Bruford College of Speech & Drama, and Goldsmiths, University of London, where she earned a Doctorate of Philosophy. She spent her teenage years acting at Greenwich Young Peoples Theatre. She teaches at Brunel University London where she is Professor of Creative Writing.

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         Mapping the Edge         Pyeyucca         Sihouette         Tiger Teeth Clenched Not To Bite

Mapping the Edge

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Written by Bernardine evaristo, Amanda Dalton And Alison Fell

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Pyeyucca

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about how a Black woman's self image is conditioned by white society and about how she could break out of that imprisonment

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written with Patricia Hilaire

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Theatre Of Black Women    1984

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extracts in Passion: Discourses on Blackwomen's Creativity ed. Maud Sulter, Hebden Bridge: Urban Fox, 1990   -

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Sihouette

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draws parallels between a Black women who died in slavery 200 years ago and a young mixed race Black woman of today

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written with Patricia Hilaire

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Theatre Of Black Women    1982

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Tiger Teeth Clenched Not To Bite

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Theatre Of Black Women    1982

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One act

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