Bernardine Evaristo and Reni Eddo-Lodge: first black British women to top bestseller charts

This year, in twin firsts, black British women topped both the fiction and nonfiction charts. Both successes were a long time coming, but sparked a ray of hope that the Black Lives Matter movement may be creating space for new voices and stories.

The novelist, playwright and poet Bernadine Evaristo, who made history with “Girl, Woman, Other” [my review here], and Reni Eddo-Lodge, the groundbreaking author of “Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race” [my review here], talk about this unprecedented moment in this “Guardian” piece.


 




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