Author best known for Booker-winning Girl, Woman, Other will be first writer of colour in position
Bernardine Evaristo is to be the next president of the Royal Society of Literature, becoming the first writer of colour to hold the position.
Evaristo, whose novel Girl, Woman, Other won the Booker prize in 2019, will take over from Marina Warner at the end of this year. She will be the second female president in the society’s 200-year history.
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