Novelists and poets, Bernardine Evaristo, Jeanette Winterson, Stephen Marche and others, consider the threats and thrilling possibilities of artificial intelligenceChatGPT seems to have blindsided us all. In less than a year it has proved that it can make writers redundant, which is one of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-11-11 09:00:30 UTC ]
Having explored the topic of diversity in UK literature in the context of race and gender in 2017 and 2018, we are thrilled that Bernardine Evaristo – the renowned writer, academic and Man Booker Prize Winner 2019 – chaired the British Council Literature Seminar in 2023. You can now watch the... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2023-03-16 10:55:14 UTC ]
Bernardine Evaristo, Captain Sir Thomas Moore and T M Logan have won Nielsen Bestseller Awards for passing milestone sales thresholds during 2021. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-09-29 23:11:17 UTC ]
A government proposal to ease restrictions on the sale of imported cultural works risks harming a world-class industryThe hoopla around the release of Sally Rooney’s new novel on Tuesday – with bookshops opening early, and queues of shoppers eager to lay their hands on Beautiful World, Where Are... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-09-07 18:00:33 UTC ]
New figures from the Publishers Association show fiction and audiobooks did particularly well, with value of consumer sales up 7% on 2019 despite bookshop closuresFiction sales in 2020 soared by more than £100m for UK publishers, as readers locked down at home made their escape into books, with... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-04-26 23:01:49 UTC ]
Bernardine Evaristo is collaborating with the Royal Society of Literature to create a mentoring award scheme for emerging authors of colour as part of a £300,000 Sky Arts project. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-28 18:33:57 UTC ]
Bernardine Evaristo will chair the judging panel for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-20 13:08:29 UTC ]
At the Frankfurt Book Fair conference, writer Bernardine Evaristo delivered a forceful keynote on the systemic bias against people of color in the UK publishing industry The post Bernardine Evaristo to UK Publishing: Hire More Diverse People appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2020-10-14 18:02:09 UTC ]
Candice Carty-Williams and Bernardine Evaristo take book of the year and author of the year categories, as publishers face criticism for treatment of black authorsCandice Carty-Williams and Bernardine Evaristo have become the first black authors to win the top prizes at the British Book awards,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-06-29 17:45:42 UTC ]
This year's top summer reads according to indie booksellers have been revealed, with Bernardine Evaristo, Lara Maiklem, Sophie Anderson and Chris Haughton named as winners of the 2020 Indie Book Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-26 06:05:16 UTC ]
Responding to the newly formed Black Writers’ Guild, all five of the biggest publishers say they will make more room for black authors and staffThe “big five” UK publishing houses have separately acknowledged that “change is not happening fast enough” and that they must do a lot more to address... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-06-17 12:45:22 UTC ]
The charts success this week of Bernardine Evaristo and Reni Eddo-Lodge exposes 22 years of whiteness at the top of the charts Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-12 04:53:36 UTC ]
Bernardine Evaristo and Reni Eddo-Lodge take No 1 slots in wake of anti-racist demonstrations, as Waterstones staff ask chain to support causeBernardine Evaristo and Reni Eddo-Lodge have become the first black British women to top the UK’s fiction and nonfiction paperback charts, in a week where... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-06-10 13:46:40 UTC ]
Bernardine Evaristo, Caroline Criado Perez and Colson Whitehead are among the authors to make the Orwell Prize shortlists for its political writing and fiction awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-20 20:07:42 UTC ]
Bernardine Evaristo, Robert Webb and Neil Gaiman are among the line-up for the Big Book Weekend, a three-day virtual festival broadcast by BBC Arts. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-04-25 10:45:46 UTC ]
Bernardine Evaristo's Booker-winning novel, Girl, Woman, Other (Hamish Hamilton) and Hilary Mantel's final novel in the Thomas Cromwell trilogy, The Mirror & The Light (Fourth Estate), have been shortlisted for 2020's £30,000 Women's Prize for Fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-04-21 03:11:14 UTC ]
Bernardine Evaristo, Amelia Gentleman and Kate Clanchy are among the longlisted authors for this year's Orwell Prize for Political Writing and Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-04-07 16:58:58 UTC ]
Bernardine Evaristo's Booker-winning Girl, Woman, Other (Hamish Hamilton) and Robert Harris' The Second Sleep (Cornerstone) both feature on the 12-strong longlist for the 2020 Glass Bell Award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-04-05 17:10:42 UTC ]
The eight shortlists for the British Book Awards have been revealed with heavyweights Margaret Atwood, Bernardine Evaristo, Philip Pullman and David Walliams all in the running for the Book of the Year accolades. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-20 00:59:33 UTC ]
Bernardine Evaristo’s Booker winning Girl, Woman, Other (Hamish Hamilton) is being adapted for the screen by “The Constant Gardener” creators Potboiler Television. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-12 14:33:01 UTC ]