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B  ‘I want to be a role model,’ says ernardine Evaristo emphatically. ‘And an inspiration. Because my background, it’s not, you know, a white background. It’s not upper-class; it’s not privileged; it’s not Oxbridge. I come from a large, working-class, mixed-race family growing up in suburbia. The things that have happened to my career this last year have been absolutely wonderful, but people shouldn’t forget that it’s been a very, very long journey.’ The 61-year-old winner of the 2019 Booker Prize sits at a 10-seat distance from me (it’s before the latest lockdown), in the front row of the theatre-in-the-round of Rose Bruford College. Evaristo has just begun a five-year term as president of the Kent drama school. There is a satisfying circularity to this alumna appointment. These days Evaristo thinks of herself, with occasional amusement, as part of the establishment: a professor of literature at Brunel University; an honorary fellow of St Anne’s College, O

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