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Short stories by black authors collected by Bernardine Evaristo will be available from "vending machines" in Canary Wharf in Black History Month (BHM). ....
In the wake of Black Lives Matter comes Black Britain: Writing Back, a series of six ground-breaking novels by overlooked, or forgotten black British writers. Selected by playwright and novelist Bernardine Evaristo who was co-winner of the Booker prize in 2019 for Girl, Woman, Other, this is a timely venture. It is also long overdue. Among Black Lives Matter’s priorities was to protest the airbrushing of black and ethnic minority voices from far distant and recent history, and Evaristo’s selection aims to make a start to rectifying literary neglect. There are countless famous and influential writers of black and ethnic minority backgrounds who are familiar to anyone interested in fiction, from Toni Morrison and Ngugi wa Thiong’o to Zadie Smith, Kazuo Ishiguro and Jackie Kay. What Black Britain: Writing Back makes you appreciate, however, is the number of less prominent authors left by the wayside. ....
The origins of the Black Britain: Writing Black series began a year ago, in the wake of Evaristo’s Booker Prize win. “We got together to talk about how we could harness the energy and excitement of that moment to make further change happen,” said Prosser. The covers of the books have been redesigned by Black British artists and the audiobooks will be voiced by Black actors. Evaristo told Penguin.co.uk that “these books will take the reader from 18th-century London to 1920s Trinidad; from inside the heads of women in the mental health system to inside the life of a working-class Black woman barrister making her way in a white, middle-class, male profession; from the ethics of stolen African artefacts in British museums and into a family home haunted by past that lingers in the present.” ....