Author | Bernardine Evaristo |
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Audio read by | Anna-Maria Nabirye[1] |
Cover artist | Neil Kenlock (photos)[2] Ali Campbell (design)[2] |
Language | English |
Genre | Postmodern literature, LGBTQ+ fiction, postcolonial literature |
Set in | United Kingdom |
Publisher | Hamish Hamilton |
Publication date | 2 May 2019 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type | Print (hard and paperback) and e-book |
Pages | 464 |
Awards | 2019 Booker Prize |
ISBN | 978-0-241-36490-1 |
OCLC | 1114328373 |
823/.92 | |
LC Class | PR6055.V25 G57 2019 |
Girl, Woman, Other is the eighth novel by Bernardine Evaristo. Published in 2019 by Hamish Hamilton, it follows the lives of 12 characters in the United Kingdom over the course of several decades. The book was the co-winner of the 2019 Booker Prize, alongside Margaret Atwood's The Testaments.
Girl, Woman, Other has received more than 30 Book of the Year and Decade honours, alongside recognition as one of Barack Obama's top 19 books for 2019 and Roxane Gay's favourite book of 2019.[3] Its prizes include Fiction Book of the Year at the 2020 British Book Awards, where Evaristo also won Author of the Year. Additionally, the novel won the Indie Book Award for Fiction and the Gold Medal of Honorary Patronage. It was finalist for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, the Australia Book Industry Awards, and the Women's Prize for Fiction.