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Bound By Her Ring by Nicole Flockton7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “We’ve republished 11 there are another two coming out this year.” Her ongoing projects include curating a list of republished works by Black British authors for Penguin. What the Booker win meant was that more people – a great many more people – were taking notice of both her writing and literary activism. “But also I’ve always been a very busy writer, someone very involved with the literary and arts world.” “I taught for two years online festivals talking in a blank space on my computer, which wasn’t great,” she says. Her work schedule didn’t waver, however, because her dance card was already full. Hard on the heels of the presentation and celebratory dinner come the interviews, the literature festivals, the invitations to judge this or curate that.įor Bernardine Evaristo, author of 2019 winner Girl, Woman, Other, the Booker effect was mitigated to some extent by COVID, which meant many festivals – including those in Sydney and Melbourne, where she was supposed to tour in 2020 – were cancelled or cut back to podcasts. Normal text size Larger text size Very large text sizeĪnyone who wins the Booker, the prime literary prize for English-language fiction, is hopelessly, helplessly busy. ![]()
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