The Circle is delighted to welcome the winner of the 2019 Booker Prize, Bernardine Evaristo to The Conduit for their annual Global Feminist Series. In conversation with Journalist, Circle Ambassador and Conduit member, Lucy Siegle, Bernardine will discuss the power of creativity in activism, and her own feminist journey.

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Bernardine Evaristo won the Booker Prize in 2019 with her eighth book, Girl, Woman, Other, the first black woman and black British person to win it. It was a #1 Sunday Times bestseller for five weeks, spending 44 weeks in the Top 10. She has received over 80 awards, honours and nominations, including the British Book Award’s Fiction Book of the Year & Author of the Year. She has made the UK Black Powerlist for the past four years. She is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University London and has received multiple honorary doctorates and fellowships. Currently two of her previous non-fiction books; Manifesto: On Never Giving Up (2021) and Look Again: Feminism (2021), are part of Tate Britain’s ‘Look Again’ series. And since 2020 she has been the curator of Black Britain:Writing Back for Penguin Random House, re-publishing books from the past.

Lucy Siegle is a UK based journalist and broadcaster and opinion leader who specialises in climate and nature coverage. She has contributed environmental stories and presented for BBC1’s The One Show since it began! She is the author of five books including Turning the Tide on Plastic: How Humanity (and you) Can Make Our Globe Clean Again and her classic book on sustainability in fashion To Die For: Is Fashion Wearing out the World , published by Fourth Estate London and nominated for the Orwell prize, it is still the basis of fashion education courses around the world and was the basis for hit Netflix documentary, The True Cost, (she is co-executive producer). She works extensively communicating green economy and just transition to help all sorts of people who want change, in business, farming, supply chains and education. She is co-founder of the Green Carpet Challenge (with Livia Firth), the Observer Ethical Awards, curates the Times Earth Summit and set up her own community festival The Thames Ditton Climate and Nature festival on the banks of the Thames. Lucy is also known for working with popstar and UNEP and WWF ambassador Ellie Goulding, whose climate messaging meets millions of young people globally. Lucy is a trustee for Surfers Against Sewage and an ambassador for WWF UK and The Circle.

About The Circle

The Circle is a global feminist organisation, founded by Annie Lennox and other leading women, supporting women and girls confronting gender-based violence and economic inequality across the world. It brings together women and allies from across the globe to strive for a safer and fairer world for the most marginalised women and girls everywhere. Global Feminism in Solidarity and Action | The Circle