FEMFEST 2025 at Mary Immaculate College (MIC) welcomed Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo to the college for a discussion on topics including growing up, her family and Irish connections, race and racism, finding her tribe in theatre, how her writing has evolved, and how winning Britain’s most prestigious literary prize in 2019 changed her life.
The author was interviewed by award-winning broadcaster and journalist Ciana Campbell at MIC’s Limerick campus.
As well as a questions and answers session, she read from her novel Girl, Woman, Other, which won the Booker Prize 2019. She was the first black woman and black British person to win the prize in its 50-year history.
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